Little Happier: A Jammed Zipper Teaches an Important Happiness Lesson I learned a very useful lesson from a very ordinary situation.

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Lemonada Media

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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If I’m complaining about a problem and asking other people to help me solve it, I should ask myself: Have I, myself, actually taken the time and energy to focus on the problem, to try to solve it? Get in touch: podcast@gretchenrubin.com Follow on social media: @GretchenRubin on YouTube @GretchenRubin on TikTok @GretchenRubin on Instagram Get the podcast show notes by email every week: happiercast.com/shownotes Get Gretchen Rubin’s newest book Life in Five Senses to see how she discovered a surprising path to a life of more energy, creativity, luck, and love: by tuning in to the five senses. Now available - order here. Visit Gretchen's website to learn more about Gretchen's best-selling books, products from The Happiness Project Collection, and the Happier app. Happier with Gretchen Rubin is part of ‘The Onward Project,’ a family of podcasts brought together by Gretchen Rubin—all about how to make your life better. Check out the other Onward Project podcasts— Side Hustle School, Happier in Hollywood and Everything Happens with Kate Bowler. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This show is sponsored by Better Help.
0:03.6	It's so easy to get caught up in what everyone else needs from you and never take a moment to think about what you need for yourself.
0:11.3	I know for me that if I'm going to do something, I have to articulate it.
0:15.7	And it is so helpful if I have a therapist to talk to so that I can reflect on what I want out of life and then go out and do it.
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1:02.8	I'm GretchenRubin and this is a little happier.
1:05.7	I recently learned a very useful lesson from a very ordinary situation.
1:11.6	I was taking off my favorite spring coat and I discovered that the zipper had become stuck.
1:17.9	When I looked at it, I saw that the zippers' two ends were uneven and the teeth were misaligned.
1:23.2	I jammed the zipper up and down several times but that didn't work.
1:27.2	I stepped out of the coat and asked my husband Jamie if he could get the zipper to unzip.
1:32.0	He jammed it up and down a few times and that didn't work.
1:35.5	The next day our older daughter Eliza came over for a visit.
1:39.1	She comes over every Sunday and Jamie said to her and my other daughter, Eleanor,
1:44.0	you two need to try to get the zipper on mom's coat unstuck.
1:48.0	They didn't even try.
1:49.5	I thought, well, maybe I could take the coat to a tailor.
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