Ep. 522: Tenth Anniversary! Best Try-This-At-Home Ideas, Happiness Hacks, and Highlights
Hosted by
Gretchen Rubin
To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the podcast, we highlight our favorite ideas, hacks, and moments from the last decade. Everything from the “one-minute rule” to “clear the decks” to “give yourself a derby name” to Elizabeth’s famous recommendation of the Ped Egg.
Resources and links related to this episode:
- Pre-order my new book, Secrets of Adulthood
- Better Than Before, my book about habit change
- Follow the one-minute rule
- Observe the family “update”
- Identify your signature anything: color, scent, personal symbol.
- Go to the doctor
- Celebrate minor holidays
- Start a side hustle
- “Identify your Happiness 911 song”
- Give yourself a “derby name”
- Create a five-senses portrait
- Organize trinkets
- Outer Order, Inner Calm book
- Packing cubes
- Share a podcast episode
- Closet-clearing montage
- Cleaning Elizabeth's office
- Hacks for reading more
- Hacks for making entertaining easier and more fun
- https://gretchenrubin.com/podcast/430-very-special-episode-hacks-hacks-and-more-hacks-for-making-entertaining-easier-and-more-fun/Hacks for performance
- Thank-you note debate
- Happiness lessons from teachers in episodes 324 and 326
- Object sacrificing itself
- “Unplugged Episode”
- Clear the Decks
- Sweep the Decks
- [Deck the Halls](https://gretchenrubin.com/podcast/more-happier-deck-the-halls-a-clear-the-decks-episode-of-quick-
