Gretchen Rubin
Gretchen Rubin
Gretchen Craft Rubin is an American author, blogger and speaker...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
CountryUnited States of America
kind look-at-yourself
You really have to begin by figuring out what kind of person you are. The tip is to really take a look at yourself.
make-me-happy
Self-knowledge makes me happy.
reading writing thinking
The thing that inspires me most is reading and just observing the people around me. I think those are the two things that make me want to write.
reading make-me-happy
Reading makes me happy.
morning thinking giving
I think the big myth about habits, and happiness too, is that there's somehow a magic "one size fits all" solution. That, "If it works for you it's going to work for me," and it's just a matter of figuring out what that habit would be, whether that's do it first thing in the morning, or start small, or do it for thirty days, or give yourself a cheat day.
fun habit
I'm doing a lot of speaking and talking about habits, which is this subject that obsesses me. That's a lot of fun.
fun assuming
One of the things that surprised me the most is how often we assume that because something's fun for someone else, it makes somebody else happy, it will make us happy.
make-me-happy
Relationships make me happy.
achieved ban berlin cold dangerous improved kennedy limited peace preserved president relations replaced soviet tension test union war
Kennedy was president for only 1,037 days, but during his short tenure, he achieved much. At the Cold War's most dangerous hour, he preserved the peace. He improved relations with the Soviet Union and replaced tension over Berlin with a limited test ban treaty.
running morning kids
If you're a night person you can barely get out of bed in time to get to work or get your kids off to school. You're at your most productive and creative much later in the day, and for you, something like getting up early to go for a run is not going to set you up for success because you're not a morning person.
book reading writing
Reading makes me want to write my own books, and just trying to understand what I see in the world around me makes me want to figure things out.
writing make-me-happy
Writing makes me happy.
letting-go make-me-happy
I spend a lot of time saying to myself, "Well, is that really what I like to do? Is that really something that makes me happy?" and letting go of the things that don't make me happy.
choices way different
If I pretend to myself that I'm different from the way I truly am, I'm going to make choices that won't make me happy.