Embracing New Year's Intentions: The Annual Challenge and Habits for Happiness

As part of “Design Your Year,” each year we announce an annual challenge based on the year—a habit that will help us and listeners to be come happier. We review our experience with last year’s “Write 24 in ‘24” challenge and reveal the challenge for 2025. Plus we discuss some of the tools and strategies we’ll use to help ourselves stick to this excellent challenge.

Resources and links related to this episode:

• "Habits for Happiness" course
• #Write24in24
• #Read25in25
• One-Sentence Journal
• bookshop.org
• Happier™ app
• 2025 "War and Peace" Slow Read
• Four Tendencies Quiz
• Don't Break the Chain tracker
• "What's Your Neglected Sense?" 
• Elizabeth is rereading: Your Table Is Ready: Tales of a New York Maitre D' by Michael Cecchi-Azzolina (Amazon, Bookshop) 
• Gretchen is reading: Was She Pretty? by Leanne Shapton (Amazon, Bookshop) 

Get in touch: podcast@gretchenrubin.com

Visit Gretchen's website to learn more about Gretchen's best-selling books, products from The Happiness Project Collection, and the Happier app. 

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