Chat about All Things Planning-Adjacent with Gretchen Rubin EP 62

Best Laid Plans

Sarah Hart-Unger

Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Sarah is thrilled to interview author, speaker, thought leader, and amazing podcast host Gretchen Rubin! They have a really fun conversation about Gretchen's planning habits, from her decades-old Filofax to the Album of Now. Gretchen's new journals are launching this week (October 1), and they include a Don't Break the Chain journal, a One Sentence Journal, and even a super cute tackle box filled with list-worthy pads. Find them (and more) at the-happiness-project.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Best Laid Plans, the podcast about all things planning and planning adjacent.
0:15.8	Well, I have a really, really exciting episode for you today.
0:23.6	I get to chat with Gretchen Rubin,
0:29.0	who I have been reading and admiring and learning from for at least a decade now.
0:34.3	I was enamored with her first, well, it wasn't actually her first book, but her very popular book, The Happiness Project, when it came out, I think in 2010 maybe, and I've been
0:40.2	following her ever since on her blog, on her podcast. I honestly love everything she does.
0:46.7	And it was such an honor to have a conversation with her today. I learned so much once again,
0:52.3	and I hope you all enjoy the interview. I am so excited to welcome
0:57.6	Gretchen Rubin to the show today. Oh my gosh, this is like, honestly, a podcaster's dream. Gretchen,
1:04.2	can you go ahead and introduce yourself? Yes, I'm so happy to be talking to you today. I'm Gretchen
1:08.2	Rubin. I'm the author of many books, including the
1:11.1	Happiness Project, The Four Tendencies, and Better Than Before, and I am also co-host of the Happier
1:16.6	with Gretchen Rubin podcast, which I listen to pretty much religiously every week. And I actually
1:23.2	had another podcast on recently, and I always say, like, whenever I speak to someone who I've listened to
1:27.8	via podcast, they sound really calm because I usually listen on like 1.5 speeds. So, oh, I'm so
1:33.7	excited. But isn't it funny to see people's faces? I feel like it always takes a while to like,
1:38.6	you're like, I don't know what I thought you looked like, but it's not like that. Yes, and also just the fact that like everybody
1:46.7	sounds so calm and zen because they're not sped up like I'm normally hearing them.
1:52.6	So I want you, you're going to talk about lots of fun stuff for us today, but I'm curious about
1:58.9	how do you do your planning? You have so much going on. You have
2:02.8	long-range projects and short things that happen every week. So how do you keep it all together currently?
2:08.7	Well, you know, I love to plan and I find it really useful, but I also do find it like very
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