I'm Gretchen Rubin and I'm Elizabeth Kraft and this is a little happier. Gretchen, I am joining you

on a little happier for the next three weeks because we are talking about holiday hacks.

Well, Elizabeth, it's very appropriate because nothing makes the holiday happier than hanging out

with the people that you love. So it's very appropriate that you and I are talking about these

happiness hacks together. Yes. And what is our hack today, Gretchen? Well, you know, it's about

quiet. Q is for quiet because, you know, in episode 78, we talked about why it's important to

seek out silence and why we need kind of regular episodes of silence. And we have had such a big

response to that discussion. Clearly, this strikes accord with people. But the holiday season is a

time where I think for many people, it's particularly difficult to get that silence, that quiet,

even when you crave it. Yes. It's like there's just people all the time entertaining and it's like

din, hot the holiday din. Yeah. Yeah. More and more people all the time. So the hack is how do you

find that quiet within the hub of holidays? And so one thing is go for a walk. Just like say,

oh, I'm going to go for a walk. Very few people will dispute that it's a good idea to go out and

get a little bit of exercise. So that's a way that you can build in some silence, also get a little

bit of exercise and get away from kind of a noisy household if that's what you're dealing with.

Yeah. Another good thing to do, which kind of kills a few birds with one stone, is offer to go put

gas in the car or go on the grocery store run because it's like people will be grateful that you're

doing something that needs to be done and you can get away and be by yourself. Yeah. Now, I will

say that in our household, like Elizabeth, you know, when we're all home for Christmas or whatever,

one thing that happens is that people are like, I'll go with you. It's like, I'm going to go to

Winsteads and pick up dinner. Oh, I'll go with you. I'm going to go to the airport and pick up,

you know, Elizabeth Adam and Jack, oh, I'll go with you. And so you kind of need to find other ways

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