Little Happier: One Easy Way to Make a Tough Decision

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Lemonada Media

Self-improvement, Education, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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A corporation president found an unconventional way to make a multi-million dollar decision—a solution that could be employed by any child in grade school. Get in touch: podcast@gretchenrubin.com Follow on social media: @GretchenRubin on YouTube @GretchenRubin on TikTok @GretchenRubin on Instagram @GretchenRubin on Threads 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. 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	You can sense to glory.
0:02.0	Is this distorted something?
0:04.0	Feel it in your bones.
0:06.0	The quarterfinals.
0:08.0	Unstappable. Full of vivid nerve-wracking moments
0:10.0	where every decision costs more means more and makes history.
0:17.0	This is where the season is defined.
0:19.0	Oh, it's matching.
0:20.0	Every game.
0:22.0	Total unmissible. Every game, Total Total. Every game. Total.
0:23.4	Total-Nissible.
0:24.4	The U-A-For Champions League, Europa League, and Conference League
0:27.4	Quarterfinals, only on TNT Sports.
0:30.9	I'm Gretchen Rubin, and this is a little happier.
0:34.0	As we work to make our lives happier, one challenge is making decisions.
0:40.0	Decision fatigue is real. It's hard to make decisions. That's why packing to leave on a trip is so much more difficult than packing to come home.
0:49.0	When we leave, we have to decide what to take. On the way home we just dump everything we brought into a bag.
0:56.0	So any action that reduces unnecessary decision-making helps us conserve energy,
1:02.0	which also means that we have more energy to make difficult
1:05.8	important decisions.
1:08.4	About decision-making, one of my secrets of adulthood is, many decisions are difficult because the choices are so similar.
1:16.8	When neither is clearly the right choice, it's likely that neither is the wrong choice.
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