Do You Ever Feel Stuck in Your Head?For the past few years, I’ve been busy researching and writing my new book, Life in Five Senses: How Exploring The Senses Got Me Out of My…Apr 15, 2023Apr 15, 2023
30 Tips I Use to Make Myself Happier, Right Now.My book The Happiness Project came out almost ten years ago — wow, that’s hard to believe.Nov 1, 20181Nov 1, 20181
Try Using Labor Day as a Catalyst to Think About Your Work Life. #HappierLaborDayIf you listen to the Happier with Gretchen Rubin podcast, you’ve heard me mention the idea of “Happier Labor Day.”Aug 8, 2018Aug 8, 2018
Daylight Saving Time! How to Survive the Loss of an Hour of Sleep.There’s a very helpful Daylight Saving Time mnemonic: “spring forward, fall back.”Mar 6, 2018Mar 6, 2018
A Question I’m Often Asked: What Are Some Fun Things to Do in Kansas City?I love my hometown of Kansas City, Missouri, and talk about it often — and people ask, “What are some fun things to do in Kansas City?”Feb 26, 20181Feb 26, 20181
A Question I’m Often Asked: What’s My Process for Taking Notes?One of my favorite things about myself is that I often become obsessed with certain subjects. I’ll do countless hours of research to learn…Feb 26, 2018Feb 26, 2018
Self-knowledge Can Help You Strengthen Your Romantic RelationshipsValentine’s Day can cause us to think about the relationships in our lives, and you may be thinking about some questions that I often get…Feb 15, 2018Feb 15, 2018
An Interesting and Useful Exercise: The Year-End Review with Myself.In my book The Happiness Project, I describe how I belong to the three-person group “MGM” where we get together periodically to talk about…Dec 27, 2017Dec 27, 2017
Use the Four Tendencies to Tackle Your New Year’s Resolutions (Or Not).Because I study happiness, good habits, and human nature, I’ve done a lot of thinking about New Year’s resolutions.Dec 18, 2017Dec 18, 2017
Need Holiday Gift-Giving Ideas? Here are the 7 Books I Most Often Give as Gifts.I love giving books as gifts — during the holiday season, and throughout the year. I constantly recommend a million books, but there is a…Dec 15, 20171Dec 15, 20171