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I have a passion for children's literature. Young adult literature. I love it. I've always loved it.

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Gretchen Rubin
Age: 58
Born: 1965
Born: December 14
Author
Blogger
Motivational Speaker
Kansas City
Missouri
Gretchen Craft Rubin
Literature
Young
Children
Always
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Adult
Adults
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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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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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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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The more I examine the issue of clutter, the more effort I put into combating it, because it really does act as a weight.
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Nothing,' wrote Tolstoy, 'can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.
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Now is now. Here is my treasure.
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I needed to change the lens through which I viewed everything familiar.
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I have a lucky perfume. I love beautiful smells, but I save one of my favorite perfumes to wear only when I feel like I need some extra luck.
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Sometimes I think it's easier to think about being happier, for what ever that means to you then worrying about what is happiness and what would life be if I finally achieved this ultimate happiness?
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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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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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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 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 are happy when we are growing.
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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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Remember that although the distinction can be difficult to draw, loneliness and solitude are different.
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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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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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Forbearance is a form of generosity.
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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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