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Gretchen Rubin
Age: 58
Born: 1965
Born: December 14
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Motivational Speaker
Kansas City
Missouri
Gretchen Craft Rubin
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I enjoy the fun of failure. It's fun to fail, I kept repeating. It's part of being ambitious it's part of being creative. If something is worth doing, it's worth doing badly
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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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Remember that although the distinction can be difficult to draw, loneliness and solitude are different.
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I'm doing a lot of speaking and talking about habits, which is this subject that obsesses me. That's a lot of fun.
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I always say you can self-medicate through closet cleaning. Everyone knows that feeling of a clear surface, and how it makes you feel you can really focus and start your work.
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We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.
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People feel happier when they feel like they're progressing. When they feel like something in their life is growing or getting better.
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The biggest waste of time is to do well something that we need not do at all.
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Enthusiasm is more important to mastery than innate ability.
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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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He is my fate. He's my soul mate. He pervades my whole existence. So, of course, I often ignore him.
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Reading makes me want to write my own books, and just trying to understand what I see in the world around me makes me want to figure things out.
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Money. It's a good servant but a bad master.
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People are powerfully moved by imagination, belief, and knowledge. They can consider the past and future. They can make changes in their behavior out of reason, in a way that animals can’t do.
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We tend to overestimate what we can do in a short period, and underestimate what we can do over a long period.
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If you want to feel safe, healthy, and hopeful, try to act as if you did feel that way. Fake it 'till you feel it. maybe start with health -- try to walk energetically, speak energetically, do physical things.
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The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted.
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The number one resolution that people mention to me as something that's made them happier is - to my surprise - making the bed.
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