Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast that gives you strategies for building happier

habits into your everyday life.

This week we'll talk about embracing good smells and how using work as a form of procrastination

can be a major happiness stumbling law.

I'm Gretchen Rubin, a writer whose studies happiness, good habits, and human nature, and

I'm in New York City.

With me is my sister of the sage Elizabeth Kraft, who is my happiness guinea pig and

questioner.

That's me Elizabeth Kraft, a TV writer and producer living in LA, and I refuse to go to

bed early.

No matter how many times Gretchen tells me I should.

So let's get right to it.

We're going to begin with a suggestion you can try at home.

Something small, manageable, that actually makes a big difference about how you feel each

day.

This week our try this at home is to embrace good smells.

I don't get it.

I don't get it.

I will make you a convert.

Embrace good smells is just that.

For a sense of smell, it's one of our five senses, but if we don't pay attention to it,

it just sort of fades out of notice.

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