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By SysBots As 2018 comes to a close, I have to say … it’s been a year of depth but also chaos and blessings for me and Zen Habits. I’m grateful for the wonderful readers I have had for more than a decade now (all… Read More »The Essential Zen Habits of 2018
By SysBots 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… Read More »Zen Mind in the Middle of Chaos & Stress
By SysBots Imagine being on vacation: you can laze around, sipping on margaritas, not worrying about what you have to do today, not worrying about the time, just being without all the anxiety. Now imagine being busy at work: you are doing one task while… Read More »The Practice of Work Mind & Vacation Mind, Simultaneously
By SysBots What parent hasn’t lost their temper when a kid misbehaves? A parent who hasn’t lost his or her cool is a mythical creature, probably riding on a unicorn over a rainbow right now. I could count the times I’ve lost my cool as… Read More »Parental Zen: How to Keep Your Cool as a Parent
Post written by SysBots. I intended to do a “Zen Habits Gift Guide”, full of frugal and green gifts that I like, typical of the gift guides you see everywhere at this time of year. Then I revised the post to show ways to avoid… Read More »The Zen Habits List of Perfect Books for Perfect Gifts
By SysBots I’m so excited: today I launch my new book, Zen Habits: Mastering the Art of Change. And I need your help. The book is written (just finished on Friday!), but I need your support to get it printed. So I’ve launched a Kickstarter… Read More »Please Support the Zen Habits Book
‘When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.’ ~Shunryu Suzuki-roshi By SysBots At work, we often face stressful situations, dreaded projects, irritating co-workers, frustrating bosses, an overwhelming number of tasks and messages, boring work… Read More »The Zen of Work
Every Friday is Health Tip Day at Zen Habits. I think this one will be a bit controversial — weight loss theories seem to be a bit divisive, judging from past posts on this topics, as people have very strong opinions about the right way… Read More »Zen To Slim: A Simple, 5-Step Weight Loss Plan
By SysBots “It’s about the habits and the doing, not the system or the tools.” In order to capture the essentials of being productive & organized, while keeping things as simple as possible, I’ve developed my own productivity system: Zen To Done (ZTD). ZTD captures… Read More »Zen To Done (ZTD): The Simple Productivity System