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I needed to change the lens through which I viewed everything familiar.
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Gretchen Rubin
Age: 58
Born: 1965
Born: December 14
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Kansas City
Missouri
Gretchen Craft Rubin
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Act the way that you want to feel.
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I used to be very disciplined about only buying three books ahead of what I was reading, but my husband corrupted me, and now I'm dozens ahead of myself!
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We can use decision-making to choose the habits we want to form, use willpower to get the habit started, then - and this is the best part - we can allow the extraordinary power of habit to take over. At that point, were free from the need to decide and the need to use willpower.
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Look for happiness under your own roof.
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One of the things that you see ancient philosophers and contemporary scientists agree on is that strong relationships are a key to happiness, maybe the key to happiness. People who have more strong relationships in their lives just feel happier.
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I'm a creature of routine, and I hate feeling incompetent, so I avoided novelty and challenge. Making an effort to push myself in that way has brought me surprising boost.
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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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Remember that although the distinction can be difficult to draw, loneliness and solitude are different.
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Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life.
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Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.
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Guard your children's free time - from you.
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It's the task that's never started that's more tiresome.
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I'm a person who's fine saying 'No.' I like saying to myself, no gossiping, no nagging.
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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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Self-knowledge makes me happy.
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I am living my real life, this is it. Now is now, and if I waited to be happier, waited to have fun, waited to do the things that I know I ought to do, I might never get the chance.
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Studies show that aggressively expressing anger doesn't relieve anger but amplifies it. On the other hand, not expressing anger often allows it to disappear without leaving ugly traces.
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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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If I pretend to myself that I'm different from the way I truly am, I'm going to make choices that won't make me happy.
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