Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast that gives you strategies and tips for how to build

happier habits into your everyday life.

This week we'll talk about establishing a weekly power hour and discuss how identifying

whom we most envy helps us to know ourselves better.

I'm Gretchen Reuben, a writer who studies happiness

good habits in human nature.

I'm in New York City and with me is my sister of the sage Elizabeth Kraft, who's my happiness

Guinea Pig and Questioner.

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

And despite the fact that I often feel like the Oscar to Gretchen's Felix, she does make

me happier.

Alright Elizabeth, let's begin.

We're going to start with the suggestion you can try at home.

This week our try this at home tip is to institute a power hour.

Now I came up with the idea of power hour because I wanted a way to have a habit of dealing

with the non-recurrent, diverse annoying tasks that just kept crowding onto my to-do list

but that just never got done.

There was something urgent about them, they didn't have to get done.

So a week after week would go by and I would just never get them done.

But how do you have a habit of doing something that really only have to do once?

You only have to fix the office chair one time.

So I decided I was going to set aside one hour because one hour seems manageable even

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