Blog Profile / Zen Habits
| URL : | http://zenhabits.net/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Lifestyle / Productivity | |
| Posts on Regator: | 699 | |
| Posts / Week: | 2.7 | |
| Archived Since: | July 6, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
The Not Knowing Path of Being an Entrepreneur
By Leo Babauta Lots of people who start businesses try to control outcomes: A vision for your business’s success. Goals to get you to the successful vision. Try to get the most productive day (out of yourself, or employees). Try to produce certain amounts, or hit certain metrics (pageviews, followers, revenue, sales). Unfortunately, the ability [...]
How to Change Your Life: A User’s Guide
‘You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.’ ~Mike Murdock By Leo Babauta Start with a simple statement: what do you want to be? Are you hoping to someday be a writer, a musician, a designer, a programmer, a polyglot, a carpenter, a manga artist, an entrepreneur, an expert at [...]
Getting Your Family On Board with Life Changes
‘Men learn while they teach.’ ~Seneca the Younger By Leo Babauta It is a curious phenomena that when we try to change our habits — simplify our clutter, eat healthier, start exercising — the other people in our life don’t instantly want to be changed in the same way. It’s as if they had their [...]
How to Stick to a Habit When Life Falls Apart
‘If you’re going through hell, keep going.’ ~Winston Churchill By Leo Babauta We’d like to think that making positive life changes is a straight line from beginning to where we want to go. But life has taught us differently. Experience shows us that you can start a new habit (let’s say working out) and things [...]
Zen Mind in the Middle of Chaos & Stress
By Leo Babauta What do you do when your job, or your personal life, is a constant source of busy-ness, rushing, nose-to-the-grindstone work, and stress? Or what do you do if your life is simple and relatively stress-free, but something blows up and you are in the middle of chaos and high stress all of [...]
Create a Sacred Space in Your Heart
‘Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves – slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.’ ~Thich Nhat Hanh By Leo Babauta Yesterday I had tea with a Daoist tea monk who said for tea to change you, you have to create a sacred space [...]
Meditation: The Most Fundamental Habit
‘ To meditate does not mean to fight with a problem. To meditate means to observe.’ ~Thich Nhat Hanh By Leo Babauta It’s no secret that I advocate meditation as a great way to start your day, deal with stress, live in the present and more. But what many people don’t realize is that meditation [...]
Creating the Genuine Connections We Long For
By Leo Babauta We all long for genuine human connections, and even in a busy life with lots of people around us, these genuine connections can be hard to find. We socialize online, but that’s not very genuine (why I quit Facebook). We work with people, but often that’s task-oriented and not human connection-oriented. We [...]
Tremors of Psychitude: One Little Trick to Find Purpose and Motivation
By Leo Babauta Today when I asked people what was bothering them, the two most common responses were related to: Finding meaning and purpose Finding motivation As it turns out, those two things can be solved with one little step. Here’s the step: help someone else. This sounds exceedingly simple, but it’s the shift in [...]
Create the Habits of Being Lean, in 7 Years
By Leo Babauta People want to lose weight really fast (myself included). We fantasize about having a flat stomach, a leaner body, in just weeks. Two weeks would be ideal. Search for “weight loss” in Amazon and you’ll find books that will show you how to “lose weight fast” or in a certain number of [...]
Walled-in: Life Without Facebook
By Leo Babauta I quit Facebook because I wanted to live deliberately. Seventeen months ago, I deleted my Facebook account — not just deactivated it, but fully deleted it — and the relief was tremendous. No longer did I have to check for updates, deal with friend requests (is this someone whose updates I want [...]
The 7 Habits of Calmness
By Leo Babauta I have come to believe that high stress, constant anxiety over tasks and work and life, social anxiety … is all a part of the modern way of life. Most people just don’t feel a sense of peace, of calm, of serenity, throughout their day. I have to admit that I’m the [...]
The Four Habits that Form Habits
By Leo Babauta My daughter wants to work out more, but she has a hard time forming the habit (many of you might be familiar with this problem). From having to get dressed to go to the gym, to actually going to the gym, to the thought of a hard workout … our minds tend [...]
Advice to My Kids
By Leo Babauta I have six lovely children — one of them now an adult, and a couple more almost there — and I give a lot of thought to what I think they should know as they grow up and go out into the world. What could I best teach them to equip them [...]
10 Essential Email Habits
‘And none will hear the postman’s knock Without a quickening of the heart. For who can bear to feel himself forgotten? ~W.H. Auden By Leo Babauta Email can be a great tool, and email can be a tool for procrastination or overwhelm. It’s not email itself that decides, it’s how you use it. There was [...]
The Daily Checklist
By Leo Babauta Here’s a problem worth solving: am I doing the thing I most need to be doing right now? How do you figure that out? You might be reading this article, but should you be doing something more important? Or checking on email or social media to see if there’s something else important [...]
Sticking to a Habit: The Definitive Guide
By Leo Babauta The hardest thing for most people, when it comes to building habits, is sticking to it long enough for it to become ingrained. Duh, Leo. It’s why most people don’t exercise or eat healthy, why people procrastinate or have clutter or debt, why people smoke and drink soda, why people don’t meditate [...]
The Meditation Diet: How I Lost 60+ lbs. by Savoring & Simplifying
‘When walking, walk. When eating, eat.’ ~Zen proverb By Leo Babauta Picture me 7 years ago, about 60 lbs. heavier than I am now, with a chubbier face, a growing gut, and an addiction to junk food. I ate pizza, chips, cookies, fried meats and cheeses, French fries, and drank beer and sweet & fatty [...]
The Power of Habit Investments
By Leo Babauta One of the things I’ve learned in my last 7 years of creating new habits is the power of compound habit interest. It sounds really obvious when you say it, but if you do something small repeatedly, the benefits accrue greatly over time. It’s obvious, but not everyone puts it into practice. [...]
Discomfort Zone: How to Master the Universe
‘The only thing I can’t stand is discomfort.’ ~Gloria Steinem By Leo Babauta Of all the skills I’ve learned in the past 7 years of changing my life, one skill stands out: Learning to be comfortable with discomfort. If you learn this skill, you can master pretty much anything. You can beat procrastination, start exercising, [...]