Happier with Gretchen Rubin: Did We Get Everything Done on Our “25 for ’25” Lists?

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🗓️ 21 December 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Gretchen Rubin is HAPPIER, and she wants you to be happier too. The #1 bestselling author of The Happiness Project and Better Than Before gets more personal than ever as she brings her practical, manageable advice about happiness and good habits to this lively, thought-provoking podcast. Gretchen’s cohost and guinea pig is her younger sister, Elizabeth Craft, a TV writer and producer living in Los Angeles, who (lovingly) refers to Gretchen as her happiness bully.

As part of “Design Your Year,” each of us made a list of 25 things we wanted to accomplish in 2025; here, we report on what we got done—and what we didn’t.

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0:00.0	Did you know that infants are ready to learn sign language?
0:03.5	Two-year-olds are ready to learn the basics of science, and three-year-olds are ready to learn coding?
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0:19.4	For instance, have you heard of the Primrose Friends? In every
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0:40.6	every friend plays a special part in helping children learn important values while having
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0:57.7	children age five. That's primrose schools.com for more information. Elizabeth, when we're together
1:06.3	for the holidays, we end up going to Whole Foods Market every day. There's so many things that we need.
1:12.8	Like, we're going to a party, and one of us needs to bring a gift for the host. They have these
1:17.5	expert curated cheeses and crackers that everybody loves. They have excellent limited time
1:23.7	seasonal desserts like holiday rum cake, creamy Bouch de Noel, which is one of our
1:29.2	family's favorites, and more. Plus, they have these show-stopping things for the table like
1:36.0	bone-in spiral-cut ham. Well, Grouch, I love that they have heat and eat sides from the prepared
1:42.6	foods department because you know that I am not much
1:45.6	of a cook. So heat and serve is something I can do. And they have floral Gretchen. So you can bring a nice
1:54.1	bouquet of flowers if you're going to someone's house. Shop for everything you need at Whole Foods Market,
1:59.9	your holiday headquarters.
2:04.4	Lemonada.
2:09.2	Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast where we talk about strategies and solutions for building happier habits into our everyday lives.
2:21.2	This week, we will review our 25 for 25 list, which is part of the design your year, the one word theme, the annual challenge, and the 25 for 25 list.
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