Over and over, see where your edges are. We all have an edge, a place where it’s difficult for us, and it’s different for every person. Find those edges, and push into them daily, relishing the gnarliness of the discomfort of the edges!
Allow Yourself to be Happy and Proud of Your Progress
Look at the glass as half full — look back and see what you’ve done so far, and feel proud of your progress. Be happy about how far you’ve come so far, even if you have a long ways to go yet.
Look at the glass as half full — look back and see what you’ve done so far, and feel proud of your progress. Be happy about how far you’ve come so far, even if you have a long ways to go yet.
Herding Cats: A Simple Method for Working With the Disorder of Our Lives
Habit efforts get sidetracked, you are constantly in a state of transition, things are always in flux, and it can all feel completely out of control.
Habit efforts get sidetracked, you are constantly in a state of transition, things are always in flux, and it can all feel completely out of control.
The Practice of Vast Open Sky
What happens when you open your mind to seeing its vast open nature … is transformational. You are no longer stuck in the smallness of our usual self-centered world. You become free.
What happens when you open your mind to seeing its vast open nature … is transformational. You are no longer stuck in the smallness of our usual self-centered world. You become free.
A Challenge: Create a Daily Reading Habit
A lot of aspirational clutter is like that: we have outdoor equipment, things for hobbies, clutter from different projects we hope to do, things for gardening and cooking and photography … but we don’t actually create the time to do these aspirations.
A lot of aspirational clutter is like that: we have outdoor equipment, things for hobbies, clutter from different projects we hope to do, things for gardening and cooking and photography … but we don’t actually create the time to do these aspirations.
8 Key Lessons for Living a Simple Life
Living a simple life is about paring back, so that you have space to breathe.
Living a simple life is about paring back, so that you have space to breathe.
The Three Most Powerful Motivations
If it all feels like too much, just start small, and take the tiniest first step. It’s a beautiful one.
If it all feels like too much, just start small, and take the tiniest first step. It’s a beautiful one.
Letter to an 18-year-old on the Career Path Less Traveled
If you want to be different than the masses, you have to take a different path.
If you want to be different than the masses, you have to take a different path.
How to Thrive in the Midst of Personal Turbulence
Use pain, sadness, chaos for growth.
Use pain, sadness, chaos for growth.
Simplicity as Spiritual Practice: Declutter for Deep Personal Growth
Decluttering causes us to confront some key relationships we have to our stuff, and to the world around us.
Decluttering causes us to confront some key relationships we have to our stuff, and to the world around us.
The Stories That Stop Us From Being Present and Taking Action
It’s really one thing: our mental habit of staying stuck in the stories in our heads.
It’s really one thing: our mental habit of staying stuck in the stories in our heads.
A Guide to Letting Go of Shame and Fear
Shame and fear pervade most of our lives to an extent rarely understood, so that our days revolve around them.
Shame and fear pervade most of our lives to an extent rarely understood, so that our days revolve around them.
The Magic of Seeing Everything as Sacred
What if we could shift everything in a magical way?
What if we could shift everything in a magical way?
Create Structure When You’re Floundering
We start with great intentions, but the harder ventures cause us to flounder around.
We start with great intentions, but the harder ventures cause us to flounder around.
It’s Not a Problem, It’s an Experience
Stop avoiding it and just feel it. Truly allow yourself to feel it.
Stop avoiding it and just feel it. Truly allow yourself to feel it.
Advice to My Kids: You Are Good Enough
Leo Babauta has some advice for his kids. And yes, it’s a little zen.