Small Steps to a Happier Life: Gretchen Rubin

For The Love With Jen Hatmaker Podcast

Jen Hatmaker

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Lawyer-turned-writer Gretchen Rubin fancied herself a happy person. She had a job she liked, a husband and two daughters she loved, a life she enjoyed. But one day she found herself wondering, “Could I be happier?” So she set out to change her life—not in a blow-it-all-up-and-move-across-the-world kind of way, but with small steps over one year. Gretchen documented her experiment to live happier in the blockbuster New York Times bestseller The Happiness Project, and has inspired millions to improve their lives and find contentment. As part of our For the Love of Good Change series, Jen and Gretchen talk about why it’s okay to pursue happiness in a world filled with hard things, and the little ways we can reach for a richer, more satisfying life. Gretchen shows how easy it is to work “happiness habits” into our lives (Jen adopted one immediately after this interview!) and how these small steps can yield big, long-term results. We also get a sneak peek at Gretchen’s new book coming out this spring: Outer Order, Inner Calm.

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0:00.0	Hi everybody, my name is Remy. Welcome to the For the Love Podcast with your host,
0:07.0	Jen Hatmaker, my mom. She writes books and speaks to
0:10.9	cows, but she mostly loves talking to amazing people on this podcast every week.
0:17.2	Thanks for listening. We hope you enjoyed the show.
0:20.1	Hey everybody, this is Jen Hatmaker, your host of the For the Love Podcast. Welcome, welcome
0:27.5	today. So glad that you are here. So guys, we are in a series that I am absolutely
0:33.4	loving and I was literally just wishing it could be longer than it is. It's called
0:38.2	For the Love of Good Change. For the Love of Good Change. And so we're kind of in the
0:44.6	middle right now of all this, you know, new year, new you stuff swirling around us.
0:49.3	And so I'm just wanting us to slow down and think about the changes we're making and
0:53.8	about the people that we want to be. And if we are interested in changing our trajectory,
1:00.6	I'd like us, myself included, to approach these ideas with mindfulness. And not because
1:07.8	we're at some arbitrary day when we're supposed to feel bad about ourselves and try to fix
1:12.8	all the things. I'm actually don't like that approach at all. Because the truth is,
1:17.8	you can change your life any day of the year, one small decision at a time. That's just
1:21.4	real. So in this series, I'm talking to people who are going to share how we can make
1:28.0	small ordinary changes that add up to pretty big results. And so you guys, you're going
1:34.9	to learn today's conversation. I basically was leaning forward the entire time listening
1:42.3	with all my might. It's just packed. It's literally packed with amazing ideas and wisdom.
1:50.0	So you're going to love this conversation with my next guest. First of all, she's so smart.
1:56.0	She's asked a lot of great questions that we've been watching over the years and challenged
2:01.1	us to think about why we do the things we do and how we can turn the dials in little ways
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