Little Happier: What’s the Best Time to Plant a Tree?

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2020

⏱️ 2 minutes

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A famous proverb illustrates why now is the best time to start anything—because it’s the only time we can start anything. We have been nominated for a Webby Award. Please vote for "Happier with Gretchen Rubin" for here: https://vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/2020/podcasts/general-series/health-wellness Get in touch: @gretchenrubin; @elizabethcraft; [email protected] Get in touch on Instagram: @GretchenRubin & @LizCraft Get the podcast show notes by email every week here: http://gretchenrubin.com/#newsletter Order a copy of Gretchen’s new book OUTER ORDER, INNER CALM here: http://outerorderinnercalmbook.com Leave a voicemail message on: 774-277-9336 For information about advertisers and promo codes, go to happiercast.com/sponsors. 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—Do The Thing, Side Hustle School, and Happier in Hollywood. If you liked this episode, please subscribe, leave a review, and tell your friends! 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

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0:00.0	Hey listeners, I have a quick request for you.
0:03.2	Elitio Thinair Thrill because the Happier with Gretchen Ribbon podcast was nominated
0:07.2	for a Webby's People's Voice Award which is determined by online voters.
0:11.9	If you like this show and you're so inclined, we'd so appreciate it if you take a second
0:15.6	to vote for the show.
0:16.9	You can visit webbyawards.com or click the link in the show notes.
0:21.1	Our podcast category is Health and Wellness.
0:23.8	Voting closes at midnight Pacific on Thursday, May 7th.
0:27.8	Thank you.
0:28.8	Gold Star.
0:31.0	I'm Gretchen Ribbon and this is A Little Happier.
0:34.4	I love Maxim's Fables, Coins and Teaching Stories of All Kinds.
0:38.7	I'm writing my own collection of aphorisms and I'm gathering my favorite proverbs.
0:44.6	The best proverbs say in one line what it would take a page to write and explain.
0:50.4	In a single short, powerful line they sum up a huge idea.
0:55.3	For instance, I love the proverbs a stumble may prevent a fall.
1:00.7	I wrote a lot about that proverb in better than before, my book about habit change, in
1:05.2	the chapter on the strategy of safeguards.
1:08.0	It perfectly sums up the idea that sometimes a small error can save us from making a bigger,
1:13.8	worse error.
1:15.4	Getting a bad grade on a paper in sixth grade can save us from getting a bad grade on
1:19.3	a paper in 11th grade.
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