Zen Habits
by Leo Babuata
Zen Habits is about finding simplicity in the daily chaos of our lives. It’s about clearing the clutter so we can focus on what’s important, create something amazing, find happiness. Copyright free content from http://zenhabits.net/open-source-blogging-feel-free-to-steal-my-content
Chapters
- Neither Averting Nor Craving in Each Moment
- How Taking Care of My Finances Changed My Life
- Tips for Traveling with Kids
- My Grand Travel Experiment
- The Parent I Aspire to Be
- The Best & Less-than-Best Motivations for Learning
- The Miracle of Suspending Mis-Belief
- 7 Strategies for Dealing with Toxic People
- Finding Motivation on Important But Non-Urgent Tasks
- Learning Tips for the Top 8 Learning Challenges
- The 30-Day Learning Challenge
- The Place Where You Are
- Feeling Determined to Change
- Practicing Non-Judgment
- Hold Your Own Feet to the Fire
- Don’t Waste Your Opportunity
- How to Beat Procrastination with Daily Training
- The Time When We’ll Be Present & Content
- A Simple, Powerful Self-Compassion Method
- When Others Frustrate You
- Your Internet Habits Create Your Reality
- The Case for Replacing Exercise with Play
- Leave Yourself Wanting More
- Fail Faster at Habits
- The Anti-Bucket List
- Getting Started with the Discipline Habit
- The Case for Caring About Your Work
- Questions of Priority
- The Futility of Always Pushing Myself to Be More
- Pare Down with the Declutter Habit
- You’re Not Doing Life Wrong
- Getting Lost in Just Doing
- An Addict’s Guide to Overcoming the Distraction Habit
- The Source of Contentment
- Savor Discipline: Merge the Interests of Your Future & Present Selves
- What You Can Say Instead of “I Don’t Feel Like It”
- The Things That Get in the Way of Doing
- The Girl Who Saw Through the Illusions
- A Gradual Approach to Healthy Eating
- Unconditional Acceptance of Yourself
- My Typical Day: How I Get People to Think I’m Productive
- The Contentment Habit
- The Delightfully Short Guide to Reading More Books
- In Praise of Limits
- The Art of Being My Dad
- 5 Ideas to Create an Amazing 2015
- Essential Zen Habits of 2014
- Karate Chop
- Practicing Slowness & Being Present
- Overwhelmed by All the Changes You Want to Make
- My 2014 Successes and Failures
- Finding the Motivation to Change Your Entire Life
- When You’re Lonely
- The Brain’s Fast Mode
- 5 Questions to Simplify Your Life During the Holidays
- The Zen Habits Holiday Gift Guide
- The Four Hidden Habit Skills
- The Power of Delay
- Overwhelmed & Rushed? Do a Stress Assess
- Writer as Coder: The Iterative Way to Write a Book
- Please Support the Zen Habits Book
- Are You a Lift or Drag Force?
- When Resistance Smacks You in the Face
- When Your Plate is Too Full
- The Quickstart Guide to Quitting a Bad Habit
- The Zen Habits Book is Almost Done
- A Quick Guide to Gaining Confidence When You Socialize
- The Empty Container
- The Realization
- A Guide to Changing Self-Destructive Behaviors
- Pushing Past the Terrifying Dip in Motivation
- It’s Not Too Late to Change Bad Habits
- The Smart Way to Stick to Habits
- My Most Effective Learning Tools
- What I Do When I Fail
- How to Put Your Writing in Public
- The Productive Sprint
- The Biggest Reasons You Haven’t Changed Your Habits
- Seized by the Thunderhold of Fear
- What to Eat for Fat Loss
- The Heartbreaking Cruelty of Comparing Yourself to Others
- A Brief Guide to Overcoming Instant Gratification
- How to Get Motivated After a Vacation
- 7 Strategies for Facing Your Internet/TV Addiction
- How to Breathe
- 7 Discipline-Mastering Practices
- 7 Rules That Keep My Life Simple
- An Education in the Majestic Sierra Nevada
- The Lies Your Mind Tells You to Prevent Life Changes
- How to Believe in Yourself
- Don’t Waste a Moment
- How to Find Your Life Purpose: An Unconventional Approach
- How to Be Great
- Making Yourself Work
- Inhabit the Moment
- How to Master the Art of Living
- The Delusional Fantasies We Live With Each Day
- Living the Simple Life
- How to Be Prepared for Anything
- Turn Toward the Problem
- The End of the Day Philosophy
- The Painful Beauty of Impermanence
- How to Change Other People
- Pursuing Happiness When It’s Already Within You
- The Quickstart Guide to a Decluttered Home
- Parental Zen: How to Keep Your Cool as a Parent
- Looking for Love
- How to Stop Your Habit Changes From Getting Derailed
- Why We Have Regret
- The Essence of Fatherhood: 6 Simple Lessons
- A Call for Revolt: Advertising is the Anti-Minimalism
- The Frustratingly Slow Pace of Making Changes
- My Struggles with Eating Boring Food
- The No Procrastination Challenge
- Creating a Lovely Morning
- A Father’s Manifesto: Raising Young Men Who Respect Women
- Turn Inspiration Into Action
- Coming Back From a Setback
- The Gift
- A Guide for Young People: What to Do With Your Life
- No Excuses: Minimalism with Kids
- How to Make a Marriage Work
- Love Notes
- Flavorless: My Month of Food Boringness
- The Letting Go Ebook, Free
- The Miracle of the Self-Compassion Habit
- How I Tackle a Big Writing Project
- The Habit Action List
- The Reality of This Moment
- Confidence in Your Business
- 10 Ways to Do What You Don’t Want to Do
- On Making It Through Tough Journeys
- The Hard Stuff Often Matters Most
- What to Think About During Exercise
- You’ll Be OK
- The Most Important Two Minutes of Your Life
- A Call for Compassion for the Defenseless
- The Cure for Your Distraction Syndrome
- You’re Not Worse Than Other People
- Being Mindful of Your Stress
- What if You Didn’t Have to Worry About Yourself?
- The Universe of a Single Task
- Simplifying Is Painful
- Becoming Emotionally Self-Reliant
- How I Cleaned House & Simplified My Work Life
- The Busy Person’s Guide to Reducing Stress
- My Month Without a Smartphone
- What I’ve Learned as a Writer
- What the Exercise Habit Did For Me
- Fear is the Root of Your Problems
- This Moment
- 36 Lessons I’ve Learned About Habits
- The 3 Do-What-You-Love Conundrums
- How I Conduct My Business
- Constant Task Switching
- The Habits of Five Amazing Founders
- The Incredible Importance of Sleep for Habits & Motivation
- What Really Motivates Us to Stick to a Project?
- I Tried to Quit & It’s Too Hard!
- Unwired: A Month With Limited Internet, & Now No Cell Phone
- Procrastination is a Mindfulness Problem
- Letting Go of Judging People
- Don’t Scratch the Itch
- Become Happy in the Face of Physical Misery
- How Repetition Can Kickstart a Habit
- Zen Productivity
- When You’re Feeling Self-Doubt & a Lack of Motivation
- The Child That Holds Us Back
- Stateless Mindset
- My Month of (Almost) No Internet
- 12 Changes for 2014
- Essential Zen Habits of 2013
- The Fear of Being Alone
- The Calm Approach
- Things Every Man Should Own
- Family Gatherings: The Ultimate Mindfulness Training Ground
- Letter to an 18-year-old on the Career Path Less Traveled
- A Method to Find Balance
- 16 Surprising Lessons from My First 50-Mile Ultramarathon
- The Simple Fitness Habit Holiday Challenge
- Struggles with My Morning Internet Fast
- Surrender, Mindfulness & Entrepreneurship
- How I Learned to Stop Procrastinating, & Love Letting Go
- Finding Focus
- When You Run Out of Ideas
- The Necessary Art of Subtraction
- Jealousy & Suffering
- How Creativity Works, & How to Do It
- Self-Discipline in 5 Sentences
- Make It Your Job
- Developing Selfless Compassion
- Lyrical Learning, & Why We Learn Habits Wrong
- A Month Without Sugar
- Why I Read (+ a Dozen Book Recommendations)
- 12 Indispensable Mindful Living Tools
- Burn Down the Farm
- My Most Minimal Travel Setup Yet
- The Exquisite Habits of the Founder of Blue Bottle Coffee
- 3 Little Tricks to Deal With People Who Offend You
- My Healthiest Travel Routine Yet
- Startup Founder Megan Casey’s Habits of Priorities
- My Pursuit of the Art of Living
- A Month Without TV or Video
- The Way of No Debt
- Letting Go: How to Live With the Loss of a Loved One
- The Way to Be
- Ramit Sethi’s Entrepreneurial Habits
- The Time to Shut Down
- The Pain & Beauty of Life Changes
- 8 Creativity Lessons from a Pixar Animator
- Zen Mountain: Leave It All Behind
- Overcoming the Social Costs of Being Different
- Finding Quiet and Mindfulness Through Food
- My Failed Month of ‘No Sitting’
- The Thinking Habit That Changed My Life
- Liking Healthy Foods is a Choice
- Unschoolery: My New Blog on Unschooling
- My Advice for Starting a Business
- Creating Your Habit Environment
- Travel Lessons with My Family
- Easier Decision-Making: Conduct Experiments
- Simplify: Let Go of Your Crutches
- The Fear of Being Found a Fraud
- The Flexible Mind
- Declutter Your Life
- A Month Without Coffee
- The Healthful Vegan Diet
- Living the Quiet Life
- The Art of Tasting Chocolate Mindfully
- Why Fear of Discomfort Might Be Ruining Your Life
- The Habits of Happiness
- How to Keep Habits Going During Travel
- A Year of Living Without
- The Key Habits of Organization
- I Failed
- Vegan Guide to San Francisco
- The Futility of Comparing Yourself to Others
- A Secret to Dad Greatness
- Habits: A Simple Change in Mindset Changes Everything
- The Worry That You’re Doing the Wrong Thing Right Now
- 6 Steps To Being More Creative
- How I Finally Faced My Weight & Debt Problems
- Working with the Obstacles in Your Path
- 9 Rules for a Simpler Day
- The Little Book of Contentment
- The Obstacle is the Path
- 5 Lessons in Contentment from Billionaires Warren Buffett & Charlie Munger
- Smile in Each Moment
- A Guide to Practical Compassion
- 6 Steps To Healing Yourself
- The 7-Day Vegan Challenge
- Why You Should Write Daily
- Achieving Without Goals
- Flowing with the Stresses of Kids (or anyone else)
- Habit Mastery: Creating the New Normal
- Defeat Distraction: Refocusing with Purpose
- Expanding the Envelope: A Method for Beating Anger
- A Guide to Practical Contentment
- The Practice of Work Mind & Vacation Mind, Simultaneously
- How to Eat Real Food Without Spending Hours in the Kitchen
- Quitting Your Habits
- The 38 Best Methods of Successful Exercisers
- How To Make It Impossible To Fail
- The Not Knowing Path of Being an Entrepreneur
- How to Change Your Life: A User’s Guide
- Getting Your Family On Board with Life Changes
- How to Stick to a Habit When Life Falls Apart
- Zen Mind in the Middle of Chaos & Stress
- Create a Sacred Space in Your Heart
- Meditation: The Most Fundamental Habit
- Creating the Genuine Connections We Long For
- Tremors of Psychitude: One Little Trick to Find Purpose and Motivation
- Create the Habits of Being Lean, in 7 Years
- Walled-in: Life Without Facebook
- The 7 Habits of Calmness
- The Four Habits that Form Habits
- Advice to My Kids
- My 10 Essential Email Habits
- The Daily Checklist
- Sticking to a Habit: The Definitive Guide
- The Meditation Diet: How I Lost 60+ lbs. by Savoring
- The Power of Habit Investments
- Discomfort Zone: How to Master the Universe
- The Most Successful Techniques for Rising Early
- Do Less: A Short Guide
- How to Savor Life
- What We Lack in a Hyperconnected World
- Simplify the Internet
- 12 Rules to Live By
- The New Rules of Fitness for 2013
- 52 Changes for 2013
- The Unprocrastination Month, and the Relaunch of the Sea Change Program
- Essential Zen Habits of 2012
- The Other Person is Never the Problem
- The Do Plan, or Why We Know But Don’t Do
- 28 Brilliant Tips for Living Life
- The Clutter-free Holiday Guide
- The Little Trick to Make Any Moment Better
- Tim Ferriss vs. Leo Babauta Showdown: On Whether Goals Suck
- The Work You Love is Waiting For You
- The 7-Step Method to Find Focus for Writing
- The Buy-Nothing Holiday Survival Guide
- Challenge: Buy Nothing Until 2013
- How to Learn Anything
- Shaken By Life’s Beauty, Shaken
- Untrack: Letting Go of the Stress of Measuring
- 15 Great Excuses Not to Form the Fitness Habit
- How to Make Health Insurance a Bad Bet
- Why the Fitness Habit is More Important Than the Plan
- The Willingness to Think Differently
- Create a Superhealth Community
- A Vegan Tour of NYC
