Happier - Ep. 378: Ideas for Family Traditions, an Accountability Hack for Obligers, and We Reveal Our Book Club Choice

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

As we do each year, we make a plan to design our summer, and we do a deep dive into listeners’ ideas for family traditions. A listener suggests an accountability hack for Obligers (or anyone who wants a little accountability). We also reveal our next choice for the Happier Podcast Book Club. 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/378 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	Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast where we talk about strategies and ideas for how
0:07.1	to build more happiness into our everyday lives.
0:10.2	This week we'll talk about how and why we might design our summers.
0:15.2	We do a deep dive into listener suggestions for family traditions, so many great ones,
0:20.8	we announce our next book club choice.
0:35.6	I'm Rich and Ruben, a writer who studies happiness, good habits and human nature.
0:39.2	I am back in my little home office right here in New York City and joining me today from
0:44.2	LA is my sister, Lizeth Kraft, with whom I share many family traditions.
0:48.8	That's me, Elizabeth Kraft, a TV writer and producer living in LA.
0:53.3	And yeah, Rich, I remember sitting at the top of the stairs, Christmas morning, waiting for
0:58.7	dad to ring the jingle bells.
1:00.5	That was...
1:01.3	Yes, now we can run down and open our presents.
1:03.4	That's one tradition that I loved.
1:05.5	Yes, and we still do that to this day.
1:07.6	Everybody has to wait for the bells to ring, the ho ho ho and the bells.
1:12.4	Before we launch in, a few updates first.
1:15.5	Thank you to all the listeners who wrote it to tell me that my book, The Happiness Project,
1:21.2	makes a brief cameo appearance in the trailer for the new HBO Max movie, Father the Bride.
1:27.5	It's at about the 39th second.
1:30.4	You can see it right there in a shelf.
1:31.9	I will post a photo in the show notes if I can figure out how to do that and I'll post a link.
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