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- January 3, 2024
# 463: Revealed! Our “24 for 24” Lists of 24 Big and Small Things We Want to Accomplish in 2024
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Ep. 463: Revealed! Our “24 for 24” Lists of 24 Big and Small Things We Want to Accomplish in 2024
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EPISODE NOTES
#### **Try This at Home**
Create your “24 for 24” list.
Any tool is useful that prompts us to reflect on our lives, and what changes we might undertake to make ourselves happier, healthier, more productive, or more creative.
Research shows that when we set specific aims for ourselves, we’re more likely to achieve them.
If you’d like to get the free PDF to write your own “24 for ’24 list,” you can [download it here](https://staging.gretchenrubin.com/resource/24-for-2024-list/).
If you’d like to read an article I wrote about tips for making your list, [it’s here](https://staging.gretchenrubin.com/articles/tips-for-your-24-for-2024-list/).
**ELIZABETH**: Her one-word theme is “Book.”
1. Orange Theory 50 times
2. Get new sunglasses
3. Engage more on social media
4. Weigh every day
5. Publish the novel, or have it in the pipeline
6. \#[Write24in24](https://staging.gretchenrubin.com/articles/join-us-for-write24in24/) by keeping her *[One-Sentence Journal](https://the-happiness-project.com/products/one-sentence-journal)*
7. Weekend away with college friends
8. Weekend away with high-school friends
9. Get back into therapy
10. Walking trip with Gretchen in England
11. Put on moisturizer every night
12. Have at least one *[Happier in Hollywood](https://happierinhollywood.com/)* retreat
13. *[Happier in Hollywood](https://happierinhollywood.com/)* newsletter
14. Get Fraxel
15. Attain and maintain a milestone weight
16. Get Nacho’s and Daisy’s stamina good enough to hike
17. Go to BravoCon
18. Throw a birthday party for herself
19. No-Spend February with Gretchen
20. Get to 200 pounds on the leg press
21. Go to six sound baths with Adam
22. Take Daisy and Nacho away for a weekend
23. Decorate for Christmas on or by December 1
24. Free space!
**Gretchen:** My one-word theme is “Revisited.”
1. Make time for watercolor, including making twelve watercolor postcards
2. Plan a milestone wedding anniversary party
3. Create a new quiz: “What’s the next new habit that will make you happier?” I love making a quiz! You can take the [Four Tendencies quiz](https://staging.gretchenrubin.com/quiz/the-four-tendencies-quiz/) here; the [Gift-Appreciation quiz](https://staging.gretchenrubin.com/quiz/the-gift-giving-quiz/) here; and the [“What’s Your Neglected Sense?” quiz](https://staging.gretchenrubin.com/quiz/the-five-senses-quiz/) here
4. Watch final season of *Succession*
5. Do 48 minutes of “review” each weekend day (2 x 24)
6. Celebrate the 10th anniversary of my children’s literature reading group
7. Revisit my newsletters — [sign up here](https://staging.gretchenrubin.com/newsletters/)
8. Keep learning and experimenting with AI – I read Ethan Mollick’s Substack newsletter “[One Useful Thing](https://www.oneusefulthing.org/),” and I listen to *[Hard Fork](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hard-fork/id1528594034)* podcast, and I experiment with it
9. No-Spend February with Elizabeth
10. 2 + 4 adventures, such as the walk in England with Elizabeth
11. Summer of Abraham Lincoln
12. Have monthly casual dinner parties
13. Get a family photo taken in August
14. Make a list of “24 things that please me”
15. Throw a perfume night for my friends
16. Plan a podcaster gathering
17. Catch up on my photo albums
18. 24 Days of Policy or Commentary
19. Plan family trip to Japan
20. Draw a [Muse Machine](https://the-happiness-project.com/collections/all/products/muse-machine) card each week
21. Find a way to support a cause I believe in
22. Work outside my office
23. Match-maker: Fix up two couples for a date
24. REVISITED: Do another happiness project! If you want to join in, to do your own happiness project in 2024, you can [learn more here](https://the-happiness-project-revisited.thinkific.com/courses/thehappinessprojectrevisited).
#### **Resource**
If you want to learn more about the Happiness Trifecta—the one-word theme, #Write24 in24, and the “24 for ’24” list—here you can find many [resources and further reading](https://staging.gretchenrubin.com/resources/) for kicking off your year!
**What We’re Reading**
- Elizabeth: *Maid* by Stephanie Land ([Amazon](https://amzn.to/48jddLm), [Bookshop](https://bookshop.org/a/15926/9780316505093))
- Gretchen: *Trustee from the Toolroom* by Nevil Shute ([Amazon](https://amzn.to/3H66l8g))
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