Underground Wellness Radio

Gretchen Rubin, bestselling author of The Happiness Project and Better than Before, reveals 8 effective strategies for creating new habits and how to exploit your own personality type to make your habits stick.    Here's what we talked about:    2:21 – Why do we do what we do, why are we the way that we are? How Gretchen got into the business of happiness and habits.   4:05 – The puzzle of habits: Why sometimes we can change and sometimes we can’t – even if we want to.    6:05 – When it comes to habits and expectations, there are only four types of people. Which type are you?    8:40 – Can people change? How to bust through the limitations of your habit tendencies to live more consistently with your nature.    12:04 – The 4 foundational things you need to get a handle on to master your good habits and eliminate the need for willpower.    14:42 – The importance of getting control over (or getting rid of!) the “stuff” in your life.   17:58 – Should you be monitoring your habits? The benefit of knowing where you