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The Joy of Falling Behind
By Leo Babauta A lot of people right now are feeling like they just can’t keep up with everything — it’s just too much. And it feels like the pace of everything we have to keep up with is accelerating. There’s more and more, and it’s coming at us faster and faster. Technology is…
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How to Be Mentally Flexible
By Leo Babauta A flexible approach to life is far more valuable than most people realize. Our minds can become too rigid. We want to be right, we want to do things a certain way, we want things to go the way we want them to go. This can lead to a whole host of difficulties we’re…
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Get Support When You’re Stuck in Your Life
By Leo Babauta Most people I know are unwilling to ask for help when they’re stuck, because it’s a bit embarrassing. That’s understandable. But we all get stuck sometimes — we want to get out of a rut, we want to change our lives, we have all the best intentions. And somehow we…
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Staying Grounded Without Checking Out
By Leo Babauta A lot of people right now are feeling exhaustion from the news, the economy, politics, wars, the AI frenzy … it’s a lot to deal with. People tend to have two responses to feeling like the world is too much: Being over-engaged : Feeling anxious about the world, you…
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The Practice of Doing Less, On Purpose
By Leo Babauta These days, a lot of people I talk to are feeling burnout — exhaustion from endless work that can often feel pointless, overloaded lives with not enough restorative rest, constant replying to messages and overwhelmed by information, drained by social media…
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Finding Steadiness When the Ground Feels Shaky
By Leo Babauta These days, the world (and our lives) can feel out of control — alarming news, a wild political situation, global warming and economic markets all in turmoil. When things feel this shaky and out of control, our emotions can spiral and it throws our lives into…
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Bonus Coaching Calls: Small Commitment to Create Action in Your Life
By Leo Babauta I’m a big proponent of a small effort that creates a big amount of change. A big part of my Zen Habits journey (and teachings) over the years is discovering and sharing small things that make a huge difference in our lives. In my Fearless Living Academy , I share…
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The Human Habits That Still Matter
By Leo Babauta These days, you can’t avoid hearing and thinking about AI — it’s all around us, and it’s taking over the world. So much of our lives are being automated … which in some ways is breathtaking. In other ways, I think we can all feel that we’re losing something. This…
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How to Stop Trying to Optimize Your Life
By Leo Babauta These days, so many people are trying to optimize their lives in every way — and I’m as guilty as anyone. Life optimization seems to be the theme for many of us. But the thing is … it never ends. You can spend months trying to optimize every facet of your life ……
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The Phone Addiction Loop, & How to Break It
By Leo Babauta I’ve talked to close to a dozen people recently who have been struggling with phone addiction — it seems to be widespread, across all generations these days. It’s not just a trivial problem … it can cause sleep problems, have us fall behind on the things that are…
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When the Work Feels Hard
By Leo Babauta Sometimes, it just feels like the work you’ve got in front of you is hard: you aren’t feeling up to it, you want to turn to distractions. That’s completely normal — most of have these days. Or weeks, or even months, when things just feel hard. It’s important not…
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The Mental Habits We Practice the Most
By Leo Babauta There’s an old idea, often misattributed to Aristotle, that “we are what we repeatedly do.” That idea is true of our physical acts, but also of our mental habits. What we’re practicing the most is what we think every day, and that becomes who we are. For example,…
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The September Health & Fitness Challenge
By Leo Babauta One of the hardest things to do as we create a better life is to show up for yourself regularly. But we can train that. And one of my favorite ways to do that is with a health & fitness challenge — where you commit to showing up for your body and yourself every…
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One Tab, One Task, One Breath
By Leo Babauta Let’s do a quick test: how many tabs do you have open right now? How many apps on your phone or computer? How many tasks are competing for your attention right now? Let’s also be honest about something: most of us are working in a constant state of fragmentation —…
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What Solitude Taught Me That Productivity Never Could
By Leo Babauta If I could go back in time to talk to myself when I was in my 20s … the biggest piece of advice I’d give myself is to learn to sit with myself without distractions. It’s the most underrated skill of your 20s, and technology is training it out of us. Hear me out!…
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Habits to Have a Baseline of Happiness
By Leo Babauta Someone told me recently that I’m one of the only people they know that seems to have a baseline of happiness. Most of the people they know, including themselves, are stressed, angry, anxious, overwhelmed, sad, etc. It made me start to reflect: is this actually…