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What's fun for other people may not be fun for you- and vice versa.

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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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People in religions that teach that believers in other faiths are condemned, for example, tend to have lower life satisfaction. People who believe in heaven and hell tend to be less happy than those believe only in heaven.
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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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Happy people make people happy, but I can’t make someone be happy, and no one else can make me happy.
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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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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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Writing makes 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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Working is one of the most dangerous forms of procrastination.
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Enthusiasm is more important to mastery than innate ability.
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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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Money. It's a good servant but a bad master.
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What I found is, really, you always have to begin by nailing what is true about you, because something that works very well for someone else might not work for you at all.
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When you work regularly, inspiration strikes regularly.
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I always had the uncomfortable feeling that if I wasn't sitting in front of a computer typing, I was wasting my time - but I pushed myself to take a wider view of what was productive. Time spent with my family and friends was never wasted.
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There are no do overs and some things just aren't going to happen. It is a little sad but you just have to embrace what is
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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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When Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's government fell in May 1940, the nation turned to Churchill. At last, his unique qualities were brought to bear on a supreme challenge, and with his unshakable optimism, his heroic vision, and above all, his splendid speeches, Churchill roused the spirit of the British people.
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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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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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There's also something about your bed it's sort of a symbol of yourself and of your marriage, if you're married. Making your bed doesn't seem to be an important thing in a happy life, and yet it can be that tiny foothold into a more orderly life that sometimes people need.
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