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b'Gretchen\\xa0Rubin is one of today\\u2019s most influential and thought-provoking observers of happiness, habits and human nature.\\xa0She\\u2019s a highly acclaimed writer, known for her ability to distill and convey complex ideas\\u2014with levity and clarity. She\\u2019s the author of many bestselling books, including her breakout memoir,\\xa0The Happiness Project, Better Than Before, and\\xa0The Four Tendencies, which have sold millions of copies in more than thirty languages. Her most recent book is\\xa0Life in Five Senses.\\xa0\\nShe\\u2019s also host of the popular podcast,\\xa0Happier with Gretchen Rubin,\\xa0and founder of award-winning\\xa0Happier\\xa0app, which helps people track their happiness-boosting habits.\\nTO kick off 2024 we invited Gretchen to talk with us about\\xa0how we can inject more happiness into our lives and how we can cultivate new habits with greater ease. She challenges us to make our \\u201924 for 2024\\u2019 list to identify our aims for the year. There\\u2019s no one right way to make your list\\u2014you might create different categories, follow a theme, choose all fun items\\u2014just think about what you want the year to hold.\\nAnd remember, there is no one size fits all for happiness.\\nHere\\u2019s Her Habits Manifesto.\\n\\nWhat we do every day matters more than what we do once in a while.\\n\\n\\nMake it easy to do right and hard to go wrong.\\n\\nFocus on actions, not outcomes.\\n\\nBy giving something up, we may gain.\\n\\nThings often get harder before they get easier.\\n\\nWhen we give more to ourselves, we can ask more from ourselves.\\n\\nWe\\u2019re not very different from other people, but those differences are very important.\\n\\nIt\\u2019s easier to change our surroundings than ourselves.\\n\\nWe can\\u2019t make people change, but when we change, others may change.\\n\\n\\xa0We should make sure the things we do to feel better don\\u2019t make us feel worse.\\n\\n\\n\\xa0We manage what we monitor.\\n\\n\\xa0Once we\\u2019re ready to begin, begin now.\\n\\n\\nResources: Gretchenrubin.com\\nCheck out choosemuse.com/meditationstudio for hundreds of free meditations.\\xa0\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'