Stop Wasting Your Energy — Here’s What to Do Instead (with Dr. Diana Hill)
The Happiness Lab: Getting Unstuck
Pushkin Industries
4.7 • 14.6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
A lot of us spend our energy on things that aren’t worth it: projects, relationships, or goals that may feel important in the moment but ultimately leave us frustrated and drained.
Dr. Diana Hill, clinical psychologist and author of Wise Effort: How to Focus Your Genius Energy on What Matters Most, gives us a roadmap for applying our energy more effectively in the new year — so that our lives feel lighter, more purposeful, and energizing instead of exhausting.
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| 0:45.4 | Welcome back to a new season of the Happiness Lab, and happy 2026, happiness lab listeners. |
| 0:53.4 | There's something so hopeful about the start of a new year. |
| 0:56.8 | For many of us, January feels like a clean slate, a chance to start fresh as the healthier, happier |
| 1:02.2 | person we want to be. But if there's one thing we know about human nature, it's that behavior |
| 1:06.8 | change is hard. We set goals, make resolutions, feel motivated to do things differently, |
| 1:12.7 | and then we slip back into exactly the same habits we had the year before. The ones we know just |
| 1:18.6 | don't work. So the goal of this new season of the Happiness Lab is to give us the psychological |
| 1:22.9 | traction we need to break out of all the ruts that we've been stuck in for a while. Rather than give |
| 1:28.5 | you the usual New Year platitudes, we'll be exploring strategies that research shows can |
| 1:32.9 | actually help us get unstuck and back in motion. Over the course of the next few episodes, |
| 1:38.7 | we'll hear science-backed tips for embracing the kinds of changes that feel scary, for finding |
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