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Gretchen Rubin
Wellness
How To
Finally
Get To Bed On Time
Gretchen Rubin
Aug 24, 2014
Living
You May Want To Think Twice About Accepting Freebies
Gretchen Rubin
Aug 17, 2014
Mind
A Foolproof Way To Make Or Break Habits
Gretchen Rubin
Aug 11, 2014
Mind
Finding It Hard To Break A Habit? This Could Be Why
Illustrated by Anna Sudit. This weekend, I spent a huge amount of time reading — my favorite thing to do. One book I read was the Letters Of James Ag
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Gretchen Rubin
Work & Money
How Your Habits Could
Majorly
Affect Your Finances
Illustrated by Elliot Salazar. As I’ve mentioned many times before, I’m hard at work on a book about how we make and break habits. This masterp
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Gretchen Rubin
Mind
10 Common Excuses That Could Be Holding You Back
Illustrated by Tida Tep. I’ve written a lot about loopholes. In my forthcoming habits book, I identify the multiple strategies we can use to shape ou
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Gretchen Rubin
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Mind
Does It Really Matter If You’re Not A Morning Person?
Illustrated by Emily Turner. I needed to set a meeting time with someone, and she said, “I know my zone. Let’s meet at 11 a.m.” I was ins
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Gretchen Rubin
Wellness
Stop Using This Lame Excuse For Not Exercising
Photography by Jens Ingvarsson. Right now, I’m editing my next book, Before and After, an examination of the most interesting subject in the world: h
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Gretchen Rubin
Spirit
Why You Shouldn’t Hide Your Bad Habits
Illustrated by Mary Schafrath. As I’ve been studying habits, and how we make or break habits, I’ve been struck by the fact that we should pay s
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Gretchen Rubin
Home
Lost Your Keys Again? 8 Tips For Finding Misplaced Objects
Illustrated by Ly Ngo. Samuel Johnson wrote, “It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery, and as much ha
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Gretchen Rubin
Living
A New Strategy For Breaking Old Habits (That Actually Works)
Illustrated by Mary Schafrath. In my forthcoming book on habits — the most fascinating subject ever — I explore the various strategies that we
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Gretchen Rubin
Living
Do You Really Need To Give Yourself A Bedtime?
Illustrated by Daniel Koppich. As a result of my happiness project, I’ve become a sleep zealot. It’s just so obvious to me — from reading
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Gretchen Rubin
Mind
Do You Have These 7 Essential Habits?
Illustrated by Sydney Hass. My current writing project is a book that will be called Before and After, about the most fascinating subject ever: the subject
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Gretchen Rubin
Living
The No-Fail Way To Stop Procrastinating
Illustrated by Anna Sudit. I’m working on Before and After, a book about habit-formation, so I constantly ask myself, “What are the issues in m
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Gretchen Rubin
Wellness
Are You Sabotaging A Friend Without Knowing It?
In my book on habits,
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Gretchen Rubin
Wellness
How To Get A Better Night’s Sleep —
Tonight
Because I’m working on Before and After, my new book about habit-formation, I constantly talk to people about their habits, and as I heard about people?
by
Gretchen Rubin
Wellness
One Simple Habit That Could Make You Happier
I got to know Debbie Stier when she was working in book publishing, because she was one of the first people to go deep into the question of how online tool
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Gretchen Rubin
Wellness
Why You Deserve A Treat — Yes, Seriously
I’ve asked this question before, but I’m asking again, because I find it so fascinating: Do you have any “treats” that don’t look like treats?
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Gretchen Rubin
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Work & Money
How To Do Less Fake-Work, And More Make-Work
I remind myself that all work isn’t created equally. Just because I’m busy doesn’t mean that I’m being productive.
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Gretchen Rubin
Living
How To Predict Your Future Happiness
I just finished Daniel Gilbert’s new book, Stumbling on Happiness. It’s thought-provoking, but in case you don’t have time to read it yourself, here?
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Gretchen Rubin
Work & Money
Is Your Work Personality Right For Your Career?
I’m not using “tortoise” and “hare” exactly as Aesop did, but it’s a handy frame of reference. Here is my question — are you a tortoise or a
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Gretchen Rubin
Spirit
Should You Be Getting Up Earlier?
Of all the changes in my daily routine wrought by my happiness project, one of the most fundamental is that I get up at 6:00 a.m., every day. And I get up
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Gretchen Rubin
Mind
Why Spending Alone Time Could Actually Make You Feel Worse
Happiness Myth No. 9: Spending some time alone will make you feel better. Wrong. Although it can be tempting to take a “personal day” when you’re fee
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Gretchen Rubin
Work & Money
Are You An Energizer Or A De-Energizer?
I’m re-posting this quiz, because I’ve been thinking a lot about this issue lately. I read Cross and Perker’s The Hidden Power of Social Networks: Un
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Gretchen Rubin
Spirit
A Touching Realization About Happiness And Life
One of my “Secrets of Adulthood” (see left column) is that “Happiness doesn’t always make you feel happy.” Yesterday, although the drawing class
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Gretchen Rubin
Mind
Feeling Lonely? 7 Strategies To Battle The Blues
One major challenge within happiness is loneliness. The more I’ve learned about happiness, the more I’ve come to believe that loneliness is a terrible
by
Gretchen Rubin
Wellness
Trying To Boost Your Mood? Here’s What
Not
To Do
Everyone has a few tricks for beating the blues. It turns out, however, that several of the most popular strategies don’t actually work very well in the
by
Gretchen Rubin
Home
9 Common Myths About Clearing Clutter
One of my key realizations about happiness, and a point oddly under-emphasized by positive psychologists, given its emphasis in popular culture, is that Ou
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Gretchen Rubin
Wellness
Nothing Going Right? How To Have A
Good
Bad Day
A few days ago, I was extremely upset. It’s too complicated to explain the whole situation, but an encounter left me feeling anxious, agitated, under att
by
Gretchen Rubin
Work & Money
Wanna Kick Procrastination To The Curb In 2014? Read This Now!
Illustrated by Ly Ngo. Gretchen Rubin, author of two New York Times bestsellers, is our go-to gal for the best get-it-together know-how. Every week, she
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Gretchen Rubin
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