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🗓️ 15 January 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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What small changes can you make to your daily life to cultivate more joy? As we continue Joy Month, we welcome to Changes one of the most influential experts in Happiness globally, Gretchen Rubin. Gretchen is a bestselling author who has written six books on the topic of happiness (all of which have become New York Times Best Sellers), including the widely acclaimed ‘The Happiness Project’. She is host of the hit podcast “Happier with Gretchen”, has been interviewed by Oprah and has walked arm in arm with the Dalai Lama!
In this remarkably practical episode, Annie and Gretchen discuss joy and happiness and how you can get more of both without having to make monumental changes to your life, new year's resolutions and why knowing your tendencies can help with happiness. Don’t miss it!
Take the happiness quizzes discussed by Gretchen here: https://gretchenrubin.com/quiz/
You can buy Gretchen’s books here: https://gretchenrubin.com/books/
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0:00.0 | You match with Maya on Tinder, you agree you don't fancy each other, but she makes you laugh till it hurts. |
0:05.3 | She dragged you to a mate house on the outskirts of the city, and you actually have a great time. |
0:10.0 | You connect with some new people, like Isaac, and decide to go to the gallery in the city centre, |
0:15.8 | where you bond over your shared appreciation of silence. |
0:19.2 | And bit by bit, the world starts to feel so full of possibilities and you think what if I hadn't |
0:25.7 | met Maya on tinder it starts with a swipe download the app now. |
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0:38.2 | wind down routine. |
0:40.1 | Now we are all about change, obviously, and recently as winter is really set in I've changed |
0:46.0 | how I go to bed I'm really trying to consciously wind down both physically and mentally and that involves a couple of things I leave my phone |
0:55.2 | downstairs to charge do not bring it into the bedroom I always read myself to sleep I don't like |
1:00.0 | screens because they kind of make me wired and recently I've introduced a |
1:04.1 | lovely cup of Twining's sleep to drink in bed before I fall asleep. So Twynings have |
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1:20.8 | the very soothing taste of Camamomile, and spiced apple and vanilla |
1:25.4 | flavoring's really kind of comforting and warm. And this blend really kind of |
1:29.8 | taps into my sense of smell and taste. I've been trying to do that so much more after |
1:34.1 | recording an episode of changes where we talked about senses and how to really |
1:37.7 | awaken them and how they help you feel alive. So I've been really trying to consciously be like, mmm, smell things and taste things and this is the perfect thing to do for that. |
1:47.0 | It really keeps you in the present. It helps my brain not project forwards and like start worrying about things which often happens to me at |
1:54.0 | night time. I look forward to this little routine every day now. It's a lovely thing to end the day |
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