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Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Happier - Ep. 363: Push Beyond a 30-Day “Challenge,” a Hack for Taking Pills, and Listeners Share Their One-Word Themes

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.713K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

We talk about the challenge of “30-day challenges” and how to push beyond the 30 days, we suggest several ways to make it easier to swallow pills, and we share listeners’ brilliant one-word themes for the year. Get in touch: @gretchenrubin; @elizabethcraft; [email protected] Get in touch on Instagram: @GretchenRubin & @LizCraft Get the podcast show notes by email every week here: http://gretchenrubin.com/#newsletter Get the resources and all links related to this episode here: http://happiercast.com/363 Leave a voicemail message on: 774-277-9336 For information about advertisers and promo codes, go to happiercast.com/sponsors Want to be happier in 2022? Order Gretchen Rubin’s book The Happiness Project to see how she approached the question, “How can I be happier?” and start a Happiness Project of your own. Happier with Gretchen Rubin is part of ‘The Onward Project,’ a family of podcasts brought together by Gretchen Rubin—all about how to make your life better. Check out the other Onward Project podcasts—Do The Thing, Side Hustle School, Happier in Hollywood and Everything Happens with Kate Bowler. If you liked this episode, please subscribe, leave a review, and tell your friends! To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:04.4

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0:32.4

Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast where we discuss cutting-edge science,

0:36.4

the wisdom of the ages, lessons from pop culture, and our own experiences about how to be happier.

0:42.8

This week we'll talk about how you can push through a 30-day challenge and will do a deep dive

0:48.3

into listeners' one-word themes for the year. I'm Gretchen Ribbon, a writer whose studies

0:53.2

happen as good habits in human nature. I am in my home office in New York City,

0:57.8

and joining me today from LA is my sister, Elisabeth Kraft, who's already living up to her one-word theme.

1:16.7

That's me, Elizabeth Kraft, a TV writer and producer living in LA, and yes, Gretchen,

1:21.7

my one-word theme is step, and I'm doing lots of steps. That's good. Before we launch into this week's

1:28.5

try this at home, we got an interesting update from a listener. Because in episode 355, we talked

1:35.0

about distance self-talk, and in 362, we talked about a listener's suggestion to use distance self-talk

1:42.4

by giving yourself a derby name, and our listener Mary had yet another twist on the idea of talking

1:49.1

to yourself in the third person. Yes, she says, I just listened to episode 355, and I was so excited

1:56.0

to hear you talk about distance self-talk. I have been thinking about this concept for a couple days,

2:02.0

but didn't know the term for it. I have been applying it in a slightly different way, and I wonder

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