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Gretchen Rubin
Age: 58
Born: 1965
Born: December 14
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Blogger
Motivational Speaker
Kansas City
Missouri
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Focus not on doing less or doing more but on doing what you value.
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Get enough exercise and sleep: Sounds trivial, but it's not. You may have the urge to work 24/7, to skip the gym and to stay up late to get a few more things done. That's short-sighted. Exercise and sleep are critical to having the physical and mental energy necessary to meet a challenge.
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Guard your children's free time - from you.
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Money. It's a good servant but a bad master.
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One of the findings that really interests me is that, although we think we ACT because of the way we FEEL, we often FEEL because of the way we ACT. So an almost uncanny way to change your feelings is to act the way you WISH you felt.
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Look for happiness under your own roof.
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If you're a night person you can barely get out of bed in time to get to work or get your kids off to school. You're at your most productive and creative much later in the day, and for you, something like getting up early to go for a run is not going to set you up for success because you're not a morning person.
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Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense.
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In general, religious people seem to be happier than non-religious people - under various definitions of religiosity, such as church attendance or professed spiritual beliefs.
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Enthusiasm is more important to mastery than innate ability.
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Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life they’re big, flashing signs that something needs to change.
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We are happy when we are growing.
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I spend a lot of time saying to myself, Well, is that really what I like to do? Is that really something that makes me happy? and letting go of the things that don't make me happy.
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Happiness is a critical factor for work, and work is a critical factor for happiness. In one of those life-isn’t-fair results, it turns out that the happy out-perform the less happy.
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The 20-minute walk I take is better than the 3-mile run I never start. Having people over for take-out is better than never having people to an elegant dinner party.
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A 'treat' is different from a 'reward', which must be justified or earned. A treat is a small pleasure or indulgence that we give to ourselves just because we want it. Treats give us greater vitality, which boosts self-control, which helps us maintain our healthy habits.
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Sometimes, counter-intuitively, it's easier to make a major change than a minor change. When a habit is changing very gradually, we may lose interest, give way under stress, or dismiss the change as insignificant. There's an excitement and an energy that comes from a big transformation, and that helps to create a habit.
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Your unhappiness doesn't help anyone else - and in fact, as I mentioned in another answer, happy people are more altruistically inclined. So happiness is not a selfish goal.
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Turn off your email turn off your phone disconnect from the Internet figure out a way to set limits so you can concentrate when you need to, and disengage when you need to. Technology is a good servant but a bad master.
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Some kind of clutter is difficult - letting go of things with sentimental value, sifting through papers - but some clutter I find very refreshing to clear. I drive my daughters nuts because I'm always wandering into their rooms to clear clutter.
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