How to Find Inner Calm and Happiness with Gretchen Rubin

The One You Feed

Eric Zimmer

Education, Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Buddhism, Mental Health

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2023

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

In This Episode, You'll learn:

Why outer order contributes to inner calm and how we can use this to create a sense of energy and focus.
Why monitoring our existing behavior can be a useful strategy
How creating"Ta Da" lists (things we have accomplished) can be energizing and encouraging
Why it's important to create safeguards for when you slip so that you can keep going
How we can have an emotional attachment to our possessions and strategies to let go of things
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0:00.0	There's kind of the energy of starting.
0:02.0	And so maybe you start and then you stop and you think, well, that's okay if I stop because I'll just start again and I found it really easy to start.
0:08.5	But starting over is harder than starting the first time.
0:19.6	Welcome to the one you feed.
0:21.6	Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have, quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true.
0:31.6	And yet for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us.
0:35.6	We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear.
0:40.6	We see what we don't have instead of what we do.
0:43.6	We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit.
0:46.6	But it's not just about thinking, our actions matter. It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living.
0:54.6	This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction, how they feed their good wolf.
1:01.6	I'm Jason Alexander and I'm Peter Tobin. We know you've been pining for a brand new podcast hosted by a beloved television icon.
1:21.6	And largely unknown talk radio hosts.
1:23.6	Yeah, yeah, yeah. I wrote that.
1:24.6	I know more because we're the hosts of really know really the funny informative show that seeks the answers to things that make us say really know really you'll lay off your learn and we'll get paid.
1:34.6	That's really no really with Jason Alexander and Peter Tilden on the I heart radio app on Apple podcasts or where you get your podcast.
1:40.6	And anybody who uses the word pining, let me know because I don't think it's very much.
1:44.6	It's the middle ages. Very common word.
1:46.6	Thanks for joining us. Our guest on this episode is Gretchen Rubin, an author, podcast host, and founder of the Happiness Prize.
1:53.6	And he's the founder of the Happiness project helping create an ecosystem of imaginative products and tools to help people become happier, healthier, more productive, and more creative.
2:03.6	Gretchen has been interviewed by Oprah, walked arm in arm with the Dalai Lama, and she's probably our only guest that has been an answer on jeopardy.
2:11.6	Today Gretchen and Eric discuss her new book, Outer Order, Inner Calm, declutter and organized to make room for happiness.
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