Have you ever tried to form a new habit and it just wouldn’t stick?
Habits have always come naturally to me, so whenever anyone close to me in my life couldn’t make a habit stick I was profoundly confused. After reading Better than Before by Gretchen Rubin and understanding that we all have our own unique way of making and breaking habits, I understood myself better, and almost instantly developed more compassion for those in my life who weren’t necessarily habit forming machines!
Gretchen Rubin is the author of several books, including the blockbuster New York Times bestsellers, Better Than Before, The Happiness Project and Happier at Home. She has an enormous readership, both in print and online, and her books have sold more than two million copies worldwide, in more than thirty languages. On her popular weekly podcast Happier with Gretchen Rubin, she discusses good habits and happiness with her sister Elizabeth Craft; they’ve been called the “Click and Clack of podcasters.” The podcast consistently ranks at the top of the iTunes charts and was named in iTunes’s and Vulture’s lists of “Best Podcasts of 2015.”
Rubin started her career in law and was clerking for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor when she realized she wanted to be a writer. She lives in New York City with her husband and two daughters.
We dive into topics like
- Understanding what’s true for yourself so you can understand how to set up better habits
- The difference between morning people and night people
- How to shape habits to reflect your true nature
- Understanding everyone has different strategies can make you more compassionate
- Simplicity lovers and abundance lovers
- The foundation habits that make forming any habit easier
- Outer order contributes to inner calm
- The importance of getting better sleep
- The Four Tendencies and how they work
- Loophole spotting and how we make excuses to not follow through
- How monitoring a behavior will make you do a better job
- The difference between rewards and treats
Click to Tweet Gretchen quote
“Be (fill in your name here:)“
“Be Gretchen”
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Resources
- Take The Four Tendencies Quiz at Happiercast.com/quiz
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