How Gretchen Rubin Became The Expert On Happiness 

Gretchen shares fascinating tips on writing, happiness and productivity. Catch all the highlights here: 2:00 - How Gretchen’s interest in power, money, fame and sex made her leave her law career. 5:42 - The easiest and hardest parts of becoming a writer. 8:00 - Why Gretchen couldn’t get a book deal for The Happiness Project. 14:00 - The messy truth about the creative process (even bestselling authors struggle with this!). 16:00 - 3 crucial questions to ask yourself if you want a happier life. 22:05 - How to declutter without getting rid of what makes you happy. 28:02 - The most important ingredients you need to transform your life, no matter your personality type. 32:35 - How to become your most productive self. Want more about how to write a book? Watch this MarieTV interview with author Dani Shapiro: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zJ6qHLaUyZU.html

"There's always gonna be time to do X". That's my biggest regret and the pandemic is teaching me such an important lesson. Being a very driven individual, I've always postponed things I wanted to do. There's always gonna be time, right? And here we are in 2020, when we no longer can go places or visit people. Hopefully, when it's all over, and we can go back to the world we know and miss, we will no longer procrastinate and simply enjoy life.

If you have the chance to create your own script for your life, don´t follow someone else´s life script. And we aaaaaaaaaaall have this chance! I also realized I am a sprinter, so I am already cutting off all the destruction to work less and kind of compacted! Loved this interview!

Girl, never ever question in posting.. I love all of your content 😊🥰🤗💜 Thank you!

As a “night” person I appreciate what you mentioned about that. I always work late - sometimes even until 4am writing or recording music - but I get shamed for not being up early. I think it’s honestly comparable to how left handed people feel in a right handed world.

Thank you for affirming people who are early-risers and night-owls! I have always felt guilty about not being a morning person and it is so great to hear that successful people are both early-risers and night-owls. The key is making their preference work for them, productivity, and their careers. Thank you!

This was such an enlightening conversation to listen to! I think my biggest takeaway is that it is okay to be both a sprinter and a baby stepper at the same time. I don't do well with the "Go big or go home" approach to change. For me, that is just too much change at one time and I fail every single time that I try. But I did lose 40 lbs in 8 weeks after I bought a gym membership and worked out for 3 minutes on the first day. I added one or two minutes per day and the next thing I knew is I was doing 45 minutes on the elliptical and the weight was falling off. At the same time, I've always thought there was something wrong with me because I could never complete an assignment or meet a deadline until the 11th hour. It seems that I am a sprinter for anything academic and always have been, I just did not have a label for it. Ever since high school, when my instructors would teach us how to write a paper...I did okay with the research phase of reading and making note cards. etc.... But I just could not seem to "write" the paper until the 11th hour. Don't think I didn't try...but it would just turn out to be an exercise in frustration and self-doubt. But the night before it was due, "magic" would happen and it seemed like the words would just fall out of my mind onto the paper and I would "power it out". With a 4.0 I figured I had to be doing something right....I've always joked that I have a split personality and now I realize that it is okay, Thank you!!!

My big takeaway....it’s ok to be a sprinter! I’ve always felt the open-ness of the Marathon diffused my creativity...which made me feel like a failure! But when I sprint I’m a genius! Thank you so much for this interview! I’d love to connect with some sprinters!!!!

Gretchen is the reason I became obsessed with habits 😆🙈 thank so much for sharing this interview! No matter what is going on in the world we are still in control of our actions and what we do in our lives.

I would rather fail as a writer than succeed as a lawyer, wow. That's how you discover your passion, when you're willing to take a risk to pursue it. Thanks for that.

Really interesting conversation between two intelligent women. Loved it. Thanks ladies!!xx

Thanks Marie for choosing to release this video. Gretchen is amazing and the conversation was also. Appreciate you.

Oh gosh! Huge a-ha moment: I am a sprinter!! I used to feel so guilty about this... I mean, my whole life! This is a game changer, thank you so much!!!

This conversation ties in so well with your new book “everything is figureoutable”. Thank you.

Wow...I am so thankful for you ladies sharing. Last night it came to me to do something great to help others, I put some thoughts on paper@12am then 2day @5am i crashed into this video. Our wise creator has a sence of humor. For 25 of my 50+years I was in a beautiful journey of marriage - then came the results of my husband's deployment to Afghanistan. My world flipped over, my family literally crumbled day by day and as much I tried I couldn't put anyone or anything back together. I'm thankful he returned from war physically ,its the aftermath - the mistress of PTSD that we war against now, even as ex husband/wife. I fight daily to be a whole person, mom, daughter friend etc ...everything is truely figureoutable. Interview well done- much 💕my sisters

This is so awesome, yes it is nice to have another person's perspective and another thing I really like to do is recall memories that make you feel AMAZING and CONFIDENT! Think of a memory where you were extremely happy and thriving and then as you focus on it your mind will think you are back in that experience!

Ahhh! Gretchen is amazing! Wonderful interview! Hope everyone is safe and sound ♥️

So crazy I was just searching for her happiness tidbits tday. We needed this interview

Ah ha moment as well because i am a night person and a marathoner and need accountability!! I feel like this information is gonna take me a long way in improving my mental health🖤🖤

Thanks for posting this. It IS nice to not hear about the virus. Waving to you from just north of Palm Springs. I'm from LA originally, used to live in Los Feliz and Hollywood growing up. Been working at becoming a writer for last 20 years, last 5 years more passionately, and been frustrated with my turtle-like progress, so this was great!

Love love love the two of you together! Agree, we all have our strengths in the way we work and so nice to hear it said so articulately. I'm am a declutter the F out of everything girl. Just cleaned the kitchen while listening. Thank you! ❤️

So good! Gretchen is so passionate about any subject she grabs onto! Her way of processing is so different from mine that it's been such a great learning experience. She thinks so quickly, I always take notes. It's so great to hear you both talking about changing the order of a sentence ... I do this so often and felt like a loggerhead! I burned all of my childhood journals and tossed all of my school yearbooks. I do regret not keeping my journals but not the yearbooks. I always enjoy Grech's questions and truly enjoy her podcast with her sister, Liz - it's one of the few I listen to on a regular basis and have since they began. Bravo Marie!

I love this! Thanks so much for this interview. For the longest time I'd been thinking I'm never going to reach my dreams 'coz I can't wake up at 5 in the morning--and from what I'd been hearing constantly that's one of the keys to success. And it's so refreshing and such a huge relief to learn that there are people out there like me who are most productive later in the day. Coffee doesn't really do anything for me in the morning but come night time my mind goes super active and creative without any caffeine! And I totally resonated with when you guys talked about being a marathoner or a sprinter--and I'm totally a sprinter. I feel that it may not always be the best way to get things done but it's such a relief to hear you guys talk about that and know that there's nothing wrong with me, and that there's hope yet for me. 😊 Thank you both so much, and thank you Marie for doing all these wonderful interviews with such wonderful and amazing people. You are truly appreciated. 😍💕

Man, what a joy!! Such a candid discussion, taking away the almost esoteric aura that is often created around creative endeavours and making it practical. THANK YOU BOTH 💖💗

I've learned the hard way what my recipe is...takes time and trial and error . But totally worth it and you become more accepting and adaptable. Thank you for another amazing episode 😍🤗😘

I really appreciate the practical breakdown of actionable steps.. sharing broad concepts of how to attain happiness is only vaguely helpful.. what you both have shared here is very useful!! 🙏🏽💕

I used to listen to her podcast all the time! I love her very distinct voice!

Thank you Marie! We need this 💗

I've been waiting for this!!! Huge fan of Gretchen Rubin. ❤️❤️❤️

Beautiful 😘😘 🇫🇷

Gretchen is so amazing and smart. I love this so much! My favorite episode 😍

I think this video is perfect conversation right now to help us get our minds off of the constant talk of the crisis and focus on happiness.

I'm so glad you shared this Marie! It's wonderful to have something positive and light - just what I needed! - Marisa

Thanks so much!!! I enjoyed the interview.

What a great conversation! I enjoyed it so much, i am already hoping for part 2 some time in the future!

I love her book the hapiness project ❤️ thank you for the nice video

Thank you so much to both of you!! great episode!

Grateful you released it.

This was brilliant and so so helpful . Thank you

I love this interview:) I actually just finished reading your book which is " Everything is figureoutable". I'll read Gretchen's book as well soon! I'm sending a big hug to you guys from South Korea! I'm in quarantine for 2weeks, so I've been bored haha, BUT this video makes me feel amazing and happy! Thank you so much! Marie forleo!!

Highly informative...this was amazing...thank you ladies!

Hello Marie, Ive been camping outside for over 6 years, AZ,, BOLOGNA!

LOVED! Loved! Loved this!!

Love both of you! You guys are awesome!

So excited to watch this ❤️

Loved this show!

Amazing👌👌😘😘

My biggest take away is to use self help material in small increments to boost my overall confidence with studying. Small increments

Amen! We all need a break!

I love the freedom you give us... do what works for you... Try it on! I’m just finding out that One Size Does NOT fit all! Ty

Ive noticed that I am much more a sprinter with some projects and much more a marathon runner with others and it sometimes seems to change itself around varying on whatever project I am currently working on. My particular hurdle is finding ways not to lose total interest once the project is done. Maybe I could apply this process to my end game?! Thank you!

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This is Shivam Kumar, I'm from India. I want to become a world greatest motivational speaker. Because I like to motivate others, I love to do helping that's why I'm going to help people they really want need good guidance so I'm going to help. Ma'am kindly suggest me what is one thing that helps me when I'm front of people. If you give your valuable time then definitely I will win. Thanks

#clutterblind

Only the last 9 minutes of this video...

Arrival fallacy 😭I have been trying to fight this for past 5 yrs,wtf is wrong with me ☹️