By Leo Babauta I challenge you to do a test before you read the rest of this post (well OK, read the next two paragraphs then go do the challenge) a| Open an email thatas been sitting in your inbox but that youave been avoiding responding to or acting on. Pick the hardest one. Try […]
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By Leo Babauta As I write this, Iam on a long plane ride a Iave written many posts on planes and trains, and I find it actually much easier to write this way despite the shakiness of my laptop on these rides. Itas easy to write on planes and trains because thereas not as much […]
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By Leo Babauta There is a power to our word that is very often underdeveloped a words are magic, and can create the world around us. But most of us use this magic as if it werenat powerful. The first way we see this is that we often donat honor our word to ourselves. In […]
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By Leo Babauta One of the best long-term things you can do for a happier life and better relationships is to cultivate a positive mindset. People with positive mindsets live longer, happier lives. They have lower rates of heart disease, cancer. They live about 7.5 years longer, on average. Thatas huge. So developing a positive […]
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By Leo Babauta On average, people spend more than 3 hours on their phones each day, picking up their phones nearly 60 times a day a| with some people spending closer to 4 hours. These numbers arenat meant to be judgments a itas not a bad thing to look at your phone a but instead […]
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By Leo Babauta Developing a strong sense of self is one of the most under-appreciated ways to be happy. To have healthy relationships, with others and with yourself. Itas not often understood, and as a result, problems in this area cause problems in all areas of our lives. Let me point out just some of […]
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By Leo Babauta My wife Eva and I have been vegan for over 11 years now, and we love it. I don’t talk about veganism a lot on Zen Habits, but today I’d love to share a little about it, if you’ll indulge me. Let me start by talking about why I’m vegan, and then […]
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By Leo Babauta When we are procrastinating, avoiding exercise or some other habit we want to create, or avoiding taking on a difficult project a| the underlying cause is rarely what we think it is. We think that all we need to do is do the thing weare avoiding, and stop procrastinating. Simple! But then […]
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By Leo Babauta aSmile, breathe and go slowly.a~ Thich Nhat Hanh Recently I got a running watch, and have been keeping most of my runs below a certain heart rate, to build up my heart’s aerobic fitness with lots of slow running. The pace of my runs has been incredibly slow for the last month. […]
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By Leo Babauta aThe quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.a a Rumi Thereas rarely a moment in the day when most of us stop moving and stop the noise. For most of us, we’re working, we’re moving, we’re driving, we’re listening to things on our headphones, we’re watching things, we’re filling […]
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Rebel Wilson and team opt to keep parts of her book 'Rebel Rising' from hitting some shelves a to avoid legal backlash from former co-star Sacha Baron Cohen.
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The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, April 21, 2024, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction.
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The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, April 14, 2024, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction.
Novella-length essay 'Raising Kane' is ranked no. 40 on our list of the best Hollywood books of all time because it started a fight that forced everyone to take a side.
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