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🗓️ 2 January 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Why do so many of us wait until a new calendar year to start setting our goals? For today's guest, the author Gretchen Rubin, "there really is no magic to January 1st" -- and the best time to start a healthy habit is just, well, now. Rubin is a podcaster and the author of several New York Times bestsellers, including "Better Than Before: What I Learned About Making and Breaking Habits -- to Sleep More, Quit Sugar, Procrastinate Less, and Generally Build a Happier Life." In this episode, she shares eye-opening frameworks on the different ways to make and achieve goals, gives tips on how to create habits that actually improve our lives and discusses why chasing happiness isn't always fun -- and why it doesn't always make us feel happy.

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, it's Elise Hugh and today we have an episode from How to Be a Better Human,
0:08.8	another podcast in the Ted Audio Collective.
0:11.7	The topic, Happiness, always something good to revisit and recenter as we enter a new
0:16.8	year.
0:17.8	If you want to hear more follow How to Be a Better Human, wherever you listen.
0:25.8	Welcome back to How to Be a Better Human.
0:27.5	I am your host Chris Duffy and I am so happy to be back with our first episode of season
0:31.8	3.
0:32.8	I know that I speak for everyone on the show when I say that we are so honored to be starting
0:36.2	this new year here with you.
0:38.1	And I'll also be honest and say that starting a new year can be kind of fraught, right?
0:41.5	A lot of people talk about new year, new you, but at least for me, I have spent many
0:46.2	a January second being like, oh god, it is a new year and I am still the same old me.
0:51.0	How is that even possible?
0:53.0	I feel this pressure like I'm supposed to be flexing my six pack while meditating and speaking
0:57.2	fluent Spanish already.
0:58.9	Like how did I already fall so far behind in the new year?
1:02.4	I think that's because there's a lot of pressure around transformation in the new year.
1:07.4	And some of that can be good.
1:08.4	I think it's good to have a kick in the butt to lose some bad habits and start some new
1:12.7	good ones to be reflective about what's working and what's not working in your life and to
1:17.5	try and think strategically about how you can get yourself closer to what makes you happy.
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