January 2016

By SysBots Many sites have created lists of things “every man should own”, coincidentally around the holiday shopping season. A reader suggested I create a Zen Habits version of this list. This list is definitive. Pen and notebook. For jotting down life lessons, and starting… Read More »Things Every Man Should Own

“There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” – Albert Einstein By SysBots I ran a 22-miler this morning in preparation for my second marathon later this month,… Read More »Make Today Your Personal Miracle

By SysBots Many of us have things we’d like to change: our exercise and diet habits, procrastination and productivity habits, patience and mindfulness habits, quitting bad habits, decluttering and finances, reading and learning and doing all the things we want to do in life. But… Read More »The Main Reason Changing Your Life is Tough

By SysBots Right now, as you read this article, you are being held up by an invisible, magic web. Consider the following, with gratitude in your heart: You are reading an article written for you by me, sent across the Internet thanks to the work… Read More »The Magic of Being Held By the World

By SysBots It can be really difficult when you aren’t good at talking to people, at making friends, or at dating. It can stress you out, get you down, make your life harder. I consider myself an introvert, but I’ve made a concerted effort in… Read More »New Course: The Magic of Forming New Relationships

By SysBots When we learn song lyrics, we don’t just look at the written lyrics and know them, nor can we listen to a song just once and immediately sing it. Learning the lyrics of a song is a process that often goes something like… Read More »Lyrical Learning, & Why We Learn Habits Wrong

By SysBots Recently, I finished reading Book 7 of the Harry Potter series with my youngest daughter Noelle. We cried, laughed, gasped in shock, cried some more. It was quite a journey, reading all seven books with her, and it took us four or five… Read More »The Unexpected Pleasures of More Than a Decade of Reading Harry Potter

Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Annabel Candy of Get In the Hot Spot. Did you know that moving house can be one of the most stressful times in your life? It’s right up there with losing your job, divorce or the death… Read More »Low-Stress Ways To Move House and Declutter Your Life

By SysBots The question I’ve been asking myself lately, before I do anything, is a deceptively simple one: “What’s the most loving thing you can do in this situation?” Now, that might sound corny to some of you, might seem irrelevant to most of you.… Read More »What’s the Most Loving Thing You Can Do?