Gretchen Rubin and Elizabeth Craft suggest that sometimes—just sometimes—you should lower the bar. Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. They also discuss the strategy of taking advantage of a clean slate to make or break a habit, a listener question about staying positive when you have young kids, plus Gretchen’s demerit and Liz’s gold star.

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