I'm Gretchen Rubin and this is a little happier.

My daughter, Eliza, has gone off to college and getting her ready for this major transition

sparked for me a lot of reminiscence. I did a lot of thinking back.

On my own college experience on moving to college and moving away from college.

And I remembered something that I have never forgotten that a friend told me our senior year.

So my friend Sarah lived off campus and we were all getting packed up to leave school forever.

And she was cleaning up her apartment and getting everything ready to go.

And as always happens when you're leaving the apartment, you have to clean it all up.

You have to get it whatever they call it, broom ready or whatever so that you get your

security deposit back. So she had been frantically cleaning her apartment for what I suspect was

practically the first time. And she was looking around her sparkling clean spare apartment and she

said to me, you know what? Don't wait until you're moving out to clean your apartment.

And I've thought of that often because sometimes when we want to make a change or improve an

experience we think, I need to do something drastic. I need to move to an entirely new apartment.

And sometimes that is absolutely true. But sometimes we can take steps to improve our current

situation right now within the bounds of our present experience. We don't have to wait until we're

moving out to clean the apartment. I'm Gretchen Rubin and I hope this makes your week a little happier.