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Get It Done: How to Complete Your Dream Project
Whether it’s launching a business, writing a book, renovating your home, or planning a major event, you have a big project you want to finish, but somehow, you can’t get it done. Maybe you’re overwhelmed by all the steps, unclear where to begin, or frustrated that typical advice doesn’t seem to fit.
In Get it Done, bestselling author and human behavior expert Gretchen Rubin brings her signature approach to help you finally complete your dream project. Drawing on her decades of knowledge of how people successfully change behavior, Rubin offers tools to help you break down your project, stay focused, and keep moving forward. But this isn’t a one-size-fits-all guide. Rubin shows you how to recognize your own unique tendencies and preferences, so you can design a personalized plan that actually works for you, not someone else.
With practical strategies, step-by-step worksheets, and relatable insights, Get it Done is your essential playbook for turning big ideas into real results. By the end, you’ll have a clear, actionable roadmap, and the confidence to see your big project through to completion.
In Get it Done, bestselling author and human behavior expert Gretchen Rubin brings her signature approach to help you finally complete your dream project. Drawing on her decades of knowledge of how people successfully change behavior, Rubin offers tools to help you break down your project, stay focused, and keep moving forward. But this isn’t a one-size-fits-all guide. Rubin shows you how to recognize your own unique tendencies and preferences, so you can design a personalized plan that actually works for you, not someone else.
With practical strategies, step-by-step worksheets, and relatable insights, Get it Done is your essential playbook for turning big ideas into real results. By the end, you’ll have a clear, actionable roadmap, and the confidence to see your big project through to completion.
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In "Get It Done: How to Complete Your Dream Project," bestselling author Gretchen Rubin brings her signature approach to help you finally complete your dream project.
Drawing on her decades of knowledge of how people successfully change behavior, Rubin offers tools to help you break down any big project, stay focused, and keep moving forward. LISTEN ON AUDIBLE
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Gretchen Rubin is one of today’s most influential and thought-provoking observers of happiness and human nature.
She’s the author of many New York Times bestselling books, such as The Happiness Project, Better Than Before, and The Four Tendencies, Life in Five Senses, and Secrets of Adulthood, which have sold millions of copies in more than thirty languages. Her next book Secrets of Adulthood comes out April 2025.
She’s the host of the popular, award-winning podcast Happier with Gretchen Rubin, where she and her co-host (and sister) Elizabeth Craft explore strategies and insights about how to make life happier. As the founder of The Happiness Project, she has helped create imaginative products for people to use in their own happiness projects.
She has been interviewed by Oprah, eaten dinner with Nobel Prize-winner Daniel Kahneman, walked arm-in-arm with the Dalai Lama, had her work reported on in a medical journal, been written up in the New Yorker, and been an answer on Jeopardy!
Gretchen Rubin started her career in law, and she realized she wanted to be a writer while she was clerking for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. Raised in Kansas City, she lives in New York City with her family.
In "Get It Done: How to Complete Your Dream Project," bestselling author Gretchen Rubin brings her signature approach to help you finally complete your dream project.
Drawing on her decades of knowledge of how people successfully change behavior, Rubin offers tools to help you break down any big project, stay focused, and keep moving forward. LISTEN ON AUDIBLE
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AUTHOR BIO
Gretchen Rubin is one of today’s most influential and thought-provoking observers of happiness and human nature.
She’s the author of many New York Times bestselling books, such as The Happiness Project, Better Than Before, and The Four Tendencies, Life in Five Senses, and Secrets of Adulthood, which have sold millions of copies in more than thirty languages. Her next book Secrets of Adulthood comes out April 2025.
She’s the host of the popular, award-winning podcast Happier with Gretchen Rubin, where she and her co-host (and sister) Elizabeth Craft explore strategies and insights about how to make life happier. As the founder of The Happiness Project, she has helped create imaginative products for people to use in their own happiness projects.
She has been interviewed by Oprah, eaten dinner with Nobel Prize-winner Daniel Kahneman, walked arm-in-arm with the Dalai Lama, had her work reported on in a medical journal, been written up in the New Yorker, and been an answer on Jeopardy!
Gretchen Rubin started her career in law, and she realized she wanted to be a writer while she was clerking for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. Raised in Kansas City, she lives in New York City with her family.
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January 9, 2026
Loved this! I love how the author broke the projects down with clear objectives and realistic goals. Love how it guided you through the steps of how you can set up a project and how to set a guideline of when you would accomplish the project. Loved it, I feel inspired.
January 24, 2026
⭐⭐⭐⭐
I thought I would casually listen to a few chapters, nod politely, and continue procrastinating like a gremlin.
Instead, I fully switched back to my work laptop (at 9pm on a Saturday!) and accidentally… got things done?? But in a totally different, calmer, less self-loathing way.
Get It Done was surprisingly more than I thought it would be.
It is motivating without yelling at you, clear without being boring, and somehow made my brain go, “Oh. That’s doable actually.”
I did not just feel inspired - I felt capable, which is rarer.
I am genuinely super glad I found this.
I thought I would casually listen to a few chapters, nod politely, and continue procrastinating like a gremlin.
Instead, I fully switched back to my work laptop (at 9pm on a Saturday!) and accidentally… got things done?? But in a totally different, calmer, less self-loathing way.
Get It Done was surprisingly more than I thought it would be.
It is motivating without yelling at you, clear without being boring, and somehow made my brain go, “Oh. That’s doable actually.”
I did not just feel inspired - I felt capable, which is rarer.
I am genuinely super glad I found this.
January 23, 2026
A great outline to plan and execute any project! I will for sure re-read.
February 6, 2026
4.5 . I wasn't expecting much and was pleasantly surprised. I will actually be repeating this one so I can put notes in my general learning notebook
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