Life

In his excellent ebook about changing habits, blogging friend Scott Young described the process of forming habits as walking home through fresh snow. The first person to go thro... 03/13/2008

Could you cut your personal possessions down to 100 things? Last week, in my Haiku Productivity post, I mentioned blogger Dave Bruno’s 100 thing challenge . It’s act... 03/13/2008

I have to admit that I have my ups and downs with the exercise habit. So I know that it’s not the easiest habit for most people, and most people’s experiences consis... 03/13/2008

What if you only worked 4 days a week? Or 5 days of 3 hours a week? Or whatever hours you decided? Last week I talked about the fine art of limiting yourself in my new Haiku Pro... 03/13/2008

Simplifying can sometimes be overwhelming. The amount of stuff you have in your life and the amount of things you have to do can be too big a mountain to tackle. But you don&rsq... 03/13/2008

Every day, I get emails and comments that are amazingly positive and encouraging, and in truth these messages are the very thing that sustains my blogging. However, I also get n... 03/13/2008

If you’ve been working on a simplified to-do list , you may have your tasks whittled down to the essential. But what about the daily and weekly things you need to do every... 03/13/2008

I’m only now learning habits that I wish I had when I was entering adulthood. I think I’m not alone here, but if I had these habits when I was young, I’d be pr... 03/13/2008

Can you give someone criticism without hurting their feelings or making them angry? Can you do it kindly? I think that’s a difficult proposition for most people, but in tr... 03/13/2008

Recently I’ve been studying the habits of successful dieters — people who’ve lost 30 lbs. or more and kept it off. And in reading a recent Get Rich Slowly arti... 03/13/2008

What do you get someone if you want to show you appreciate them, but if you don’t have a lot of money to spend? If you have a lot of money, you can buy just about anything... 03/13/2008

I’ve decided that in order to get serious about losing weight, you need to count calories. I’ve tried doing it without counting, and while you do see some weight los... 03/13/2008

When I sat down to write my Blog Action Day post, I tried to figure out what the “environment” has to do with some of the main themes of Zen Habits: simplicity, frug... 03/13/2008

“Be curious, not judgmental.” - Walt Whitman “I am grateful that I am not as judgmental as all those censorious, self-righteous people around me.” - anon... 03/13/2008

“80 percent of success is showing up.” - Woody Allen How do you find motivation to exercise when you just don’t feel like getting off your butt? I ask myself t... 03/13/2008