Two Updates
Elizabeth and her writing partner Sarah Fain are hosting a Happier in Hollywood Writers’ Retreat:
October 20-22, Ojai, CA
Info: email Happierinhollywood@gmail.com
I’m hosting a virtual Zoom workshop and Q&A about using the Four Tendencies framework to make the workplace work better.
We’ll discuss common conflicts that can derail the workweek and how to use the Four Tendencies to identify solutions.
Tuesday, Sept. 26th, 4:30pm PT / 7:30pm ET
Register: happiercast.com/workshop
Try This at Home
Pay someone a meaningful compliment. We share many meaningful compliments received by listeners.
If you’d like to read more compliments, you can read them here.
Happiness Hack
Do you use Venmo? Brian X. Chen’s New York Times article, “This is a reminder that you’re probably oversharing on Venmo” has extremely useful information.
To prevent your transactions from being shared, change the settings. Inside the app, click on the Me tab, tap the settings icon and select Privacy. Under default privacy settings, select Private. Then, under the “More” section in Privacy, click “Past Transactions” and make sure to set that to “Change All to Private.”
To hide your contacts list from public view, visit the privacy settings, click on Friends List and select Private. Also, toggle off the option for “appear in other users’ friends lists.”
Know Yourself Better
What’s the least-you thing you do?
And what’s the least-[fill-in-the-name-here] thing that [fill-in-the-name-here] does?
We mention the TV show Claim to Fame and the documentary The Beatles: Get Back.
Demerits & Gold Stars
Gretchen’s Demerit: On a visit to one of my favorite Kansas City restaurants, Princess Gardens, I was enjoying the conversation so much that I didn’t pay attention to the taste of the food. Even though I’d just finished my book Life in Five Senses!
Perhaps one reason that I earned this demerit is that my most neglected sense is the sense of taste. Find out your most neglected sense by taking the free, fun “What’s Your Most Neglected Sense?” quiz.
Elizabeth’s Gold Star: She gives a gold star to her writing partner, Sarah Fain, for all the challenging creative work Sarah did on the materials for their upcoming writers’ retreat. If you want to see the materials, email happierinhollywood@gmail.com.
Resource
In the Happier app, the September Jump-start offers seven days of actionable prompts for reevaluating and reorganizing your work life. Coming September 17.
Now you can turn on notifications for jump-starts so that you never miss a day.
Head to thehappierapp.com to learn more or download today from the App Store or Google Play Store.
For instructions about how to rate and review a podcast, go to happiercast.com/rating.
What We’re Reading
Gretchen
Hello and welcome to Happier! A podcast where we talk about how to make our lives happier, healthier, more productive and more creative. This week we’ll talk about why we should pay someone a meaningful compliment, and we will share many examples of those kinds of compliments. And we will discuss a very amusing and also enlightening Know Yourself Better question.
Gretchen
I’m Gretchen Rubin, a writer who studies happiness, good habits and human nature. I’m in New York City, and joining me today from L.A. is my sister, Elizabeth Craft. And Elizabeth Craft, you often call me your happiness bully, which weirdly and perhaps wrong mindedly I take as a compliment.
Elizabeth
That’s me, Elizabeth Craft, a TV writer and producer living in L.A.. And Gretchen, I absolutely mean it as a compliment. I need my happiness.
Gretchen
If I feel like there’s a way for you to get happier. I can get pretty insistent. Yeah, but first, a few updates. Elizabeth, you have a huge update. I have a compliment for you, which is, I am so impressed how quickly you and Sarah have gotten this major update going.
Elizabeth
Yes. So Sarah and I have been wanting to do another Happier and Hollywood retreat and we are making it happen. It’s going to be October 20th through 22nd, 2023 at the Johnny Cash Ranch in Ojai, which is so great Gretchen, so cool. It’s a place where Johnny Cash lived for a long time, and it’s been redone, so it’s beautiful, but it maintains the feel of Johnny Cash.
Elizabeth
The bottom of the pool has a big guitar tile piece, and there is a record player that comes out of the wall. There’s the Man in Black room. Yeah, very cool. And yes, it’s about how to get and keep a job as a TV writer. But I just want to say what we talk about applies to almost anything.
Elizabeth
Yeah. So if you’re interested, but you’re not a TV writer, still could be right for you. So email us at happierinhollywood@gmail.com for more information that’s happierinhollywood@gmail.com. Of course, space is limited, keeping it small enough that we can give everyone a lot of individual attention and it’s going to be tons of fun.
Elizabeth
So join us.
Gretchen
Well, you guys did this before COVID and it was super successful. But then it like many things, I think you thought, oh, well, we’ll do it again, but then all this time goes by. But then it was like, Hey, we might do another one. And then I turned around and it was all put together. It’s not like it came together very quickly.
Gretchen
Well, so you decided to do it.
Elizabeth
It’s sort of one of those things with the strike where the downside is that we’re on strike. The upside is we have time to do something like this, right, When often we absolutely don’t have time to write something like this. So we said, let’s seize the moment, do it while we can. So we are October 20th through 22nd.
Elizabeth
You can also go to our Facebook group for more information.
Gretchen
And the fact that when you were picketing, you ran into some of your former students.
Elizabeth
Yeah, that’s so vindicating. Who had met at the retreat, become friends and were picketing. So yes, that in fact, is one of the things that really made us decide that we need to do it again. Yeah, Yeah. So it was so great to see them. It definitely spurred us on to do this. Oh, yeah. And Gretchen, you have a virtual workshop coming up.
Gretchen
Yeah, you and I both have these fun things going, engagement things. This is a virtual workshop about the Four Tendencies, which, of course I love to talk about. This is about the workplace. It’s about ten conflicts that come up over and over again in the workplace and how understanding the Four Tendencies can help you manage them, manage yourself and perhaps of more interests.
Gretchen
How to manage other people. It’s 90 minutes. It’ll be virtual. There’s Q&A. I’m really excited about this. It’s going to be on Zoom on Tuesday, September 26, at 4:30 Pacific and 7:30 Eastern, and you can get more information and sign up at happiercast.com/workshop and you’ll get a guide to the Four Tendencies. But there are a lot of questions that come up over and over and over again about the Four Tendencies in the workplace.
Gretchen
So this is just a chance to really talk through how to manage those. So I’m excited.
Elizabeth
This is an excellent idea. Yeah, for anyone, especially if you’re in a sort of leadership role and you’re managing a team. I mean, this is so good.
Gretchen
Well, the thing is, Elizabeth, you and I love to talk shop.
Elizabeth
Yeah.
Gretchen
So this kind of thing for us is so fun. Yeah. It gives us a chance to talk about ideas and solutions. Yeah, maybe we should have a podcast where we talk about our.
Elizabeth
Well, yeah, I guess. There you go. There you go. That idea.
Gretchen
There you go. Well, this week’s Try This at Home Suggestion is to pay someone a meaningful compliment. This is one of these things that can seem very small when you’re doing it and it can have a completely disproportionate outcome to the person who hears it.
Elizabeth
Yes. The thing is about a compliment is you don’t even know the impact that you’re having on someone. You don’t know that they take that away and like, think about it later, maybe years later. And it’s an easy thing to do and it has such a huge impact.
Gretchen
And one of the things we’re going to we have a bunch of examples from listeners of meaningful compliments and it’s so beautiful. It’s so I hate to use the word heartwarming, but it is so just heartwarming to hear these compliments. And you can exactly imagine why they would have meant so much to somebody. But you could imagine that they would change people’s careers.
Gretchen
They would help them stick with a difficult career, energize them. But here’s the thing. They’re meaningful and just flattery is not the same thing as true, meaningful praise. And when people over and over, they will say, this person understood my values. This was the thing that I had been laboring for, and someone showed me that I had achieved it.
Gretchen
It’s pay someone a compliment, but it’s a meaningful compliment and it can be transformative.
Elizabeth
Yeah, absolutely. Gretchen, recently this actually happened to me on the picket line. Oh, yeah, I was on the picket line and I ran into a writer who’s now extremely successful. I had worked with her, I don’t know, at least ten years ago and she said, Oh, I have been wanting to tell you that advice you gave me ten years ago.
Elizabeth
I still think about and call upon. Oh, and she’s like, I’ve been wanting to tell you that. Thank you. And it was, of course, especially now in a time when I’m feeling a bit despondent. And though you know about the strike, it really did make my day. If not my week right here. That meant it was about how to handle the pressure of the writers, basically, and how not to lose who you are in the writers room.
Gretchen
Elizabeth, so it’s it’s a good example of why this is so meaningful to you, because that is a really, really high value is like trying to help other people. I mean, we were sort of joking about the podcast and everything, but that is a very deep value that you have, which is how can I make it easier for other people?
Gretchen
This can be really hard. So can I make it more transparent or give people the advice I wish I’d gotten? And so here you are hearing that you did that.
Elizabeth
And it was nice because this is someone I really admire. She’s a fantastic writer. She’s also a fantastic leader. So yeah, that made it even more great to hear, right?
Gretchen
Because she had your admiration and respect, too. Yeah, well, for me, somebody said to me that I took criticism better than anyone he’d ever worked with, which is particularly valuable to me because I feel like that is a weakness of mine. Like I have to work really hard. I have all these psych up exercises that I do and reminders that I make and monitors that I have to stay open to criticism and not to be defensive until I always be focused on doing something better.
Gretchen
And so for him to say that showed me that I was doing that well, at least with this one in this one area with one person, I was doing it well. So again, that was meaningful because it showed me that I had successfully addressed something that I had really been working on and that I thought was important.
Elizabeth
And Gretch that shows me that you really put your ideas into practice because I know that is really hard for you. So it really shows that you actually do all these things that you talk about because you have evolved to be able to take the criticism. Because I think especially as an upholder, it’s the original. So yeah, not wanting to feel like you made a mistake or did something wrong.
Elizabeth
So the fact that you can conquer that I think is amazing. I think that is an awesome compliment.
Gretchen
So let’s go through some from listeners and let’s just do these rapid fire because I think it’s much more interesting to hear what everybody had. So let’s not even really comment on it. These are just beautiful to read.
Elizabeth
Okay, Daryl says at one of my annual reviews, my supervisor told me he wished he had my skills in dealing with negative people. Greatest review I ever received.
Gretchen
Ray said when my young son said he saw the world differently from his friends, When I asked what he meant, he said it was because his mother was an artist and was always saying, Look at the light in that cloud. Look at the texture of that tree. Look at how many colors in that rock. And so he was always noticing details they missed.
Elizabeth
Carly says, I once was guest lecturing on the topic of End of Life in a class at a community college. The professor’s teenage daughter was sitting in the back doing homework. After the class, she told her mom listening to her speak was like soul food. I took that as one of the highest compliments I’ve ever had, especially coming from a teenager. Amy said.
Gretchen
When my daughter said, I know it must have been very hard for you as a single mom. But all I remember about my childhood is fun. We had so much fun. Carolyn says.
Elizabeth
I saw an article in the local paper about a woman business owner and sent her an email congratulating her on her success. I mentioned that I was the founder of the local chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners, and she responded, I know who you are. I’ve watched you for years and you are my inspiration. Brought tears to my eyes. Pat said.
Gretchen
I had helped a young client with a very difficult problem. I got in trouble with my boss, but was glad I helped. Years later, I walked into a store and she ran up to me shouting, Here she is, my angel. What a wonderful feeling.
Elizabeth
Kimberly said, I’m a reporter. I’ve had multiple people say that I am fair, that I tell the full story and someone I respect recently said he reads my stories but never knows how I feel personally. To me, those are the greatest compliments any reporter can receive. Julie said.
Gretchen
My 28 year old daughter told me a sincere thank you. I am so incredibly grateful to have such a great mom that is always on my side. I said, Oh, thanks, sweetie. With tears. Then she continued, Mom, no, please understand. Not everyone has a great mom, and I just really want you to know I love you so much and I appreciate everything you’ve done to help us.
Gretchen
It feels freeing, knowing I have at least one reliable parent. Some people are not lucky. Some people my age had terrible parents. But I need you to know you did good. You went above and beyond for me. And I see it still. She had had a conversation with one of her coworkers who had a hurtful childhood, and she said all she kept thinking while trying to be empathetic of how lucky she is.
Gretchen
I had to pull my semi-truck over because I had to enjoy the moment. It was not easy for us. I had her my only child, when I was 16, I worked my way off welfare and we worked as a team through her teen years and college years. Trust me when I say kids do not come with books and I was clueless and just use common sense and mutual respect raising her.
Gretchen
I never badmouthed her dad or really anyone in her presence. I winged it every decision, everything. This was the best anyone ever said to me. My heart is full and I’m thankful more and more for her every day.
Elizabeth
Oh, Jenny says. One of my college professors said I had one of the most interesting minds she ever met.
Gretchen
Marge says. Sounds weird, but the nicest thing that someone said to me was from my ex-husband’s girlfriend. She said, You feel sorry for me, don’t you? It made me feel like it wasn’t only me that had problems with that man and I could put myself on the back for finally having left him. Emily said.
Elizabeth
When I first met my future father in law, we sat around talking for an hour, and when we parted, he said, I feel like I’ve known you a long time already. Alexis said.
Gretchen
When I introduced one friend to another. She later said to me, I’ve never met a friend of yours I didn’t like. You are incredible and making good friends with good people. I started to cry. It’s such a strong value of mine and she’s so deep into my soul.
Elizabeth
Amy said, during a difficult parenting event, my husband said I was, quote, winning at parenting.
Gretchen
Ruth said, A former patient in our ICU told me recently that when I came into his room, it was as if an angel had come in. It made me cry. He survived a terrible accident.
Elizabeth
Becca, says it was a homeless veteran. Back when I worked at a VA homeless veterans center, I was a caseworker, which meant helping my vets get a job, develop financial skills, get medical, physical and substance treatment. He gave me a card when he moved out of the center into his own place. In it, he wrote, You are the joy of Christmas morning.
Elizabeth
The joy and hope you share everyday changes everyone’s life around you. You are the light in this dark world. I carried that card with me for many years.
Gretchen
Virginia said, One of my sons told me in high school that his friend observed about me. It’s great how you can talk to your mom about anything, but you can tell she doesn’t put up with any crap. I was amused and touched that my son shared that with me.
Elizabeth
Mary said, This is one I think you’ll appreciate. When I was in high school, my sisters and I were walking home from the bus stop talking and laughing, obviously enjoying each other’s company. A neighbor was walking with her visiting mother and said to her, can you believe it? They’re sisters. That sisterly bond still remains and I’m grateful.
Elizabeth
Every day. Sandy said.
Gretchen
You are the music and laughter of this house said to me by my mother in law.
Elizabeth
Susan said, My special compliment was a colleague recently told me that I was appreciated because I stand up for others at work, including those with less status and pull. I do that, but I didn’t think people recognize that.
Gretchen
Now, Elizabeth, I have a compliment for you. I mean, compliments, something that I’ve never told you. I don’t think in so many words, which is I’m so astonished and impressed and amazed at how you have essentially grown into the role of being kind of a startup founder. I mean, every time you start with a show or a pilot, the budget is millions of dollars.
Gretchen
There’s dozens, if not hundreds of employees. There’s incredibly tight deadlines, there’s big egos, there’s high stakes, and you do it. And I’m like, how does she know how to do it? You have grown into that role and it’s amazing to me.
Elizabeth
So. Oh, well, thank you Gretch. Thank you. My meaningful compliment for you and I have to say it’s about me is.
Gretchen
That.
Elizabeth
You always make me believe in myself. You have the ability to make me believe in myself, even when I am not believing. And I think that is a great gift. So thank you for that, because I call upon you often and you’re always ready and willing to get me to believe in myself.
Gretchen
Oh, well, thank you. Well, these are wonderful. We could read these.
Elizabeth
All day long.
Gretchen
I will put a link in the show notes if you want to go on to social media and see other things that people said because it really is just so fascinating. Let us know if you do try this at home and how paying someone a meaningful compliment works for you or what meaningful compliment you receive. Can’t get enough.
Gretchen
Let us know on Instagram,Tik Tok, Facebook. Drop us an email at podcast@gretchenrubin.com Or as always, you can go to the show notes. This is happiercast.com/447
Elizabeth
Coming up, we have a very practical hack related to Venmo. But first, this break. Okay, Gretch, it’s time for this week’s Happiness Hack.
Gretchen
Yes. Okay. So I read about this in the New York Times and I will post a link to it if you want to have the instructions written out. But in a nutshell, if you use Venmo, there is a very important thing you want to check. And I raised this because, Elizabeth, I realized as your sister that you had made this mistake because I was seeing your Venmo transactions myself.
Gretchen
And I was like, how is this even possible? Am I showing my Venmo transactions to everybody I know? Anyway, clearly we all want to have our transactions private, and I would think so. If you want to make sure that your day to day life is not being broadcast to your contacts in Venmo, you need to go to the settings.
Gretchen
I’m not going to go into it because it’s easier to have them written out, but I will put them in the show notes again go to happiercast.com/447. I will also put a link to the New York Times article where I got this information. But just be aware that if you have not changed your settings, you may be as you were.
Gretchen
Elizabeth, unwittingly sharing your contact information and your transaction information. And so it’s just something you want to be very mindful about. So if you use Venmo, just take a second and check that.
Elizabeth
Yes. And I changed it. It took 10 seconds. Yeah.
Gretchen
Yeah. But you didn’t know until I told you.
Elizabeth
I did not know. Yeah.
Gretchen
Now, here’s a Know Yourself Better question. And this one is so fun.
Elizabeth
Yes. I love this Gretch. We had a fun time talking about it.
Gretchen
Yes. So this came up. I was having a conversation with a friend, and somehow we started talking about dyeing hair. And my friend said that dyeing her hair was the least me thing she did. So, you know, we all do things that are sort of consistent or typical, but then we all do some things we like. Wow, that’s the least me thing I do.
Gretchen
Now I keep asking everybody, what’s the least you thing you do? So, for instance, I would say about Jamie, my husband Jamie, getting choked up at romantic comedies, which he loves. He loves romantic comedies is the least Jamie thing that Jamie does. Now, of course, the minute somebody does something that’s atypical, then it becomes very characteristic. But at least at first glance, you’re like, I wouldn’t have pictured Jamie as like a big softy and lover of romcoms.
Gretchen
But there he is.
Elizabeth
Yes, Jamie is the last person that I would expect to be even watching a rom com, much less tearing up.
Gretchen
He loves them. Elizabeth, for you, I was thinking about what is the least Elizabeth thing that I can think of that you could do and it’s that you’re stressed reaction is buying conservative suits. If you know Elizabeth that is not a very Elizabeth thing do to.
Elizabeth
Do I know.
Gretchen
Wouldn’t have expected.
Elizabeth
And therefore, I have these suits Gretch. We’re going to see each other and I’m going to have the opportunity to wear one. And I’m so happy because I have these suits that I don’t need. Gretchen I was thinking about this for myself and a thing that I thought that was so on me is my dog mania.
Gretchen
Oh, yeah, for sure.
Elizabeth
It’s so on me to be, like, loving the dogs and going to the dog bakery, having pictures of them everywhere. Everyone I know is just astonished by it. It’s just not my personality.
Gretchen
Melissa I would say not only that, but it’s unpleasant to even have a dog. Then it was even more and Elizabeth to have two dogs and then it’s even more and Elizabeth to, like, be dog everything. Coordination. Yes, Yes. But it’s so uncharacteristic and then it becomes deeply characteristic. It’s very funny.
Elizabeth
Now. Gretchen, for you, I think one of the most un-Gretchen things you do is watch and love Claim to Fame. The reality show.
Gretchen
It’s true, it’s true. This is a good example of why this is a useful question, because the reason that I watch Claim to Fame is because of my daughters. Eliza and Eleanor loved it, and they kept saying, you should watch, you should watch. And then I was like, Well, this will be good for us to talk about. It’ll be a good bonding thing.
Gretchen
It’s Elizabeth. You say this in a writer’s room. If everybody’s talking about a TV show or in any office, it’s a good way to connect with other people is to watch something that they’re interested in on TV. But then I watched it, and then I was like, Oh my gosh, we have to binge the whole season because I have my prediction about who’s going to win.
Gretchen
And I think it’s a very clever show. So it’s a good example of how sometimes doing something uncharacteristic can expand your sense of identity and get you out of your rut and get you to do something like get two dogs.
Elizabeth
Yes. Another thing, Gretchen, because you always talk about how music isn’t your thing and so you getting so into Paul McCartney, right? That was very un-you.
Gretchen
But see, again, the reason that I did that is because you said, Hey, I really think you’re going to love this documentary, Get back. And because I trusted your judgment, I did something which I wouldn’t usually do because I’m like, I don’t care about that. And then I got really into it. So it’s a great thing to keep in mind.
Gretchen
And this is just a really now I can say this because I’ve been quizzing everybody in my life about this. It’s a really, really fun thing to talk about with your friends and family because it’s illuminating. It gives you a sense of yourself and where you might want to go. And I don’t know, it’s fun.
Elizabeth
Yes. And I just think the idea and I’ve said this before about getting the dogs, the idea that there is something new out there about yourself that you never knew is very exciting and hopeful. It’s like you don’t know what the future holds for you. You may be a person who does like dogs or you may be a person who does enjoy pickleball.
Elizabeth
Yeah, So you can try it and see.
Gretchen
Yeah. And I think asking yourself this kind of question is a way that sometimes can show you possibilities and directions that you might not otherwise consider just in the busyness of everyday life.
Elizabeth
All right, Gretch. Well, it would be fun to hear from listeners. Yes. The un-them things they do. Yes. So let us know.
Gretchen
Be so fun.
Elizabeth
And Gretch coming up, you give yourself a demerit related to one of our family’s favorite restaurants in Kansas City. Okay, Gretch. It is time for demerits and gold stars. And you are up this week with a happiness demerit.
Gretchen
Yes. And when we talk about Kansas City restaurants, you know, you might think, hey, Gretchen is going to say something about Winstead’s, but no. Or she’s going to talk about barbecue. But this is related to Princess Gardens, which is one of our favorite restaurants in Kansas City. It’s a Chinese food restaurant. And we went there the last time we were all in Kansas City.
Gretchen
We went with the Shultz’s, what is this family that we’re super close to. We’re all sitting around this big table chatting away, getting caught up. There was so much to talk about. And so my demerit is that I didn’t really pay attention to the taste of the food like this is food that we don’t go. It’s not like Winstead’s where we go.
Gretchen
Like the minute our feet touch Kansas City soil, we don’t often go to Princess Gardens, we don’t go every visit. And it’s very distinctive. And I love it. And it’s it has so many memories. But I was so engaged with talking to everybody, which is good. Yeah, but I didn’t step out of that moment for even 30 seconds with every dish that I was eating to just really say like, Oh, this is the this is the mushu pork that I love so much.
Gretchen
Let me really and it’s been the same way our whole lives. And of course, my neglected sense is taste, Elizabeth your neglected sense is taste.
Elizabeth
Yes.
Gretchen
And I think this is the kind of thing that if you’re neglected sense is taste you do, which is you forget to, like, really dial into the pleasure of taste. Because now I think now I want to go back and really enjoy it because I didn’t really experience it here. I just finished writing the book about it, you know what I mean?
Gretchen
So just shows how it can be hard to overcome our nature.
Elizabeth
Yes. And Gretchen, if anybody wants to take the Five Senses quiz and discover their neglected scents, where should they go?
Gretchen
gretchenrubin.com/quiz. It’s just a short free quiz and will tell you if you’re if your neglected sense is taste like Elizabeth and me or if it’s something else. But Elizabeth, take us up. What is your gold star?
Elizabeth
All right Gretch, I am giving a gold star this week to my writing partner and co-host of Happier in Hollywood, Sarah, also my co leader of our Happier in Hollywood retreat, which is what this gold star is related to. So we had to do, you know, materials for the retreat, written materials, explaining what it is when it is all of that.
Elizabeth
And Sarah really took the lead on the creative for that which was super time consuming because you have to pick the font and you have to get it all right. And you know, these things take time.
Gretchen
And it was very designed. I mean, since I thought like there’s a lot of design elements, it wasn’t just time’s roman font. Yeah, it’s not just straightforward. There was a lot of making it interesting and fun. And the Johnny Cash looks beautiful.
Elizabeth
Yeah. Yeah. So I give her a gold star for taking the lead on that and really putting herself into it, because I think it turned out beautifully. If anybody wants to see it, email me. happierinhollywood@gmail.com and I will send it to you. So I give her a gold star because, you know, sometimes as a team, one person just has to take the lead on something.
Elizabeth
And she did that. And it looks beautiful.
Gretchen
Oh, that’s great.
Elizabeth
Gold star to Sarah.
Gretchen
Gold Star to Sarah. The resource for this week, there’s going to be a jump start in the Happier app about refreshing your work rhythms. We often say September is the other January. It’s kind of a clean slate, a fresh start. Everybody’s kind of getting back into routine. And so this jumpstart is seven days of prompts for reevaluating and reorganizing your work life.
Gretchen
And that starts September 17th. And also you can now turn on notifications for jump starts because a lot of people are like, I don’t want to miss a day. So I figured that out. You can find out more, go to thehappierapp.com or you can just download it from the App Store or Google Play if that’s easier.
Gretchen
And Elizabeth, what are we reading? What are you reading?
Elizabeth
I am reading Bad Summer People by Emma Rosenblum.
Gretchen
And I’m reading Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver. And that’s it for this episode of Happier. Remember to try this at home. Pay someone a meaningful compliment. Let us know if you tried it. If it worked for you, What compliment did you give or get?
Elizabeth
Thank you to our executive producer, Chuck Reed and everyone at Cadence 13. Get in touch. Gretchen’s on Instagram and Threads and Tik Tok at Gretchen Rubin and I’m at Liz Craft. Our email address is podcast@gretchenrubin.com.
Gretchen
And if you like this show, please be sure to tell a friend and rate us. And here’s the thing if you don’t know how to rate because it’s easy to do, but if you have never done it before, it’s like everything. It’s kind of complicated the first time to figure it out. Go to happiercast.com/rating and the very easy instructions will make it very easy.
Elizabeth
And so next week, I’m Elizabeth Craft.
Gretchen
And I’m Gretchen Rubin. Thanks for joining us. Onward and upward. Elizabeth, I would love to count the number of items in your house that have corgis on them now, because I feel like every time I come, I’m like, there’s more on the fridge, there’s more on the counter. There’s there’s there’s just corgi salt and pepper shakers.
Elizabeth
I know, Jack’s friend said, Why do you have these everywhere? And I say, Because we love our dogs. And he said, I love my dog, but I don’t have these pictures everywhere of my dog. And, you know, and I said, well, it’s a corgi thing.
Gretchen
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