| 'Smile, breathe and go slowly.' *~Thich Nhat Hanh*
! Post Written By Leo Babauta [1]. Follow Me On Twitter [2]. !
*Note: This is an update to the old guide --- so it should be
interesting to readers new and old.*
While some of you have been following Zen Habits since its early days
(beginning of 2007), many of you are fairly new readers.
To help you through the fairly overwhelming archives, I've compiled a
beginner's guide. Kind of a Quick Start guide.
First, a note: Please don't try to go through this all at once. There
are days and days worth of reading here. I've just organized that so
that you can go to the stuff you want to learn about first.
Take it in small chunks.
Where do you start when you have a thousand posts to read through? You
start with the best, or at least the most popular.
So here they are:
!! Most Popular Posts !!
* breathe. [3]
* be still. [4]
* a brief guide to life. [5]
* the best goal is no goal [6]
* the lost art of solitude [7]
* the elements of living lightly [8]
* the zen of doing [9]
* The Ultimate How to Get Lean Guide. [10]
* simplify, and savor life [11]
* How Not to Hurry [12]
* Email Sanity: How to Clear Your Inbox When You're Drowning [13]
* the barefoot philosophy [14]
* The No. 1 Habit of Highly Creative People [15]
* How Not to Hurry [16]
* The Simple, Ridiculously Useful Guide to Earning a Living from
Your Passion [17]
* 10 Benefits of Rising Early, and How to Do It [18]
* 20 Things I Wish I Had Known When Starting Out in Life [19]
* Simple Living Manifesto: 72 Ideas to Simplify Your Life [20]
* A Guide to Creating a Minimalist Home [21]
* Get Off Your Butt: 16 Ways to Get Motivated When You're in a
Slump [22]
!! Browse The Archives !!
But those are just the stars of the All-Star team. You can actually
scroll through the entire list of posts (warning:it's long), in the
Archives [23].
Next you'll want to delve into some of your favorite topics. You can
go through the main categories:
* Finance & Family [24]
* Health & Fitness [25]
* Goals & Motivation [26]
* Habits [27]
* Happiness [28]
* Productivity & Organization [29]
* Simplicity [30]
Or you can go through a few compiled guides I've hand picked for some
of the more popular categories:
* Everything You Wanted to Know About Simplifying Your Life, and Way
More [31]
* The Unsurpassable Productivity List: A Handy Guide to Getting
Important Things Done [32]
* All The Best Tips on Getting In Shape, In One Handy List [33]
* The Golden Money List: Hundreds of Tips for Turning Your Financial
Life Around [34]
And if that's not enough for you, here's are some Best of Zen Habits
collections (I stopped doing this a little while ago, but they're
still useful):
* Essential Zen Habits of 2009 [35]
* Essential Zen Habits of 2008 [36]
* Essential Zen Habits of 2007 [37]
* Best of March 2008 [38]
* Best of February 2008 [39]
* Best of January 2008 [40]
* Best of Zen Habits 2007 [41]
* Best of November 2007 [42]
* Best of September and October 2007 [43]
* Best of August 200 [44]
* Best of July 2007 [45]
* Best of June 2007 [46]
* Best of May 2007 [47]
* Best of April 2007 [48]
* Best of March 2007 [49]
* Best of February 2007 [50]
!! About Leo !!
By now, you might want to know more about Leo, the guy who writes this
blog ... well, I'll give you more than you'll ever want to know.
*Short version*: I'm married with six kids, recently moved to San
Francisco [51], started Zen Habits in January 2007, love to write,
run, and read, live a simple life. I also started mnmlist [52], wrote
The Power of Less [53], and am now self-publishing a book called focus
[54].
*Long version*: If that wasn't enough, here's more than you ever
wanted to know:
* My Story [55]
* The Zen Habits FAQ [56]
* Uncopyright [57] (I've made all the articles on this blog in the
public domain)
* Experiments in Blogging [58] (results of the Uncopyright and more)
* Notes on Fatherhood [59]
* Celebrating Zen Habits' first birthday [60]
* Notes on Life [61], and more Notes on Life [62]
* How I Work [63]
* 10 Books that Shaped My Life [64]
* 10 Biggest Influences on Zen Habits [65]
* 6 Annoying Fetishes I Talk Too Much About [66]
* Ask Me Anything - 100 Question Extravaganza [67]
* My blog about writing and blogging: Write To Done [68]
* My ebook publishing site: Web Warrior Tools [69]
* And lots of interviews with Leo: Art of Wise Living [70], Escaping
the 9 to 5 [71], Shawn Blanc [72], Today's Leader Online [73],
Inspirational Minimalist [74], Live Bold Bloom [75], Running
Somewhere [76], Blogcast FM [77], Dreamin' the Life [78],
Productivity Magazine [79], Motivate Thyself [80], Great Work
[81], GTD Virtual Study Group [82], Far Beyond the Stars [83],
Dancing Deer [84], Duct Tape Marketing [85], Hungry People [86],
BFM radio [87], ProBlogger [88], Happiness Project [89], Personal
Finances [90], Leo's "Crib" [91], Effing the Dog [92], Parenting
[93], My Tropical Escape [94], My Digital Setup [95], Balanced
Life Center [96], On Open-Source Blogging [97], On Freelancing
[98], On Work-Life Balance [99], Slacker Manager [100], Veg Blog
[101], Frugal Living [102], Systems Overload [103], Online
Entrepreurship [104], On Blogging [105], Success Soul [106], More
on Happiness [107].
!! Books !!
Whew! That was a lot of reading. There's more, if you'd like, though.
I've written a number of books:
* Zen To Done [108].
* The Simple Guide to a Minimalist Life [109].
* The Zen Habits Handbook for Life [110].
* Essential Motivation Handbook [111].
Or my print book, *The Power of Less: The Fine Art of Limiting
Yourself to the Essential, in Business and in Life*. Buy it here:
Barnes Noble [112], Amazon [113], Borders [114], or IndieBound
[115]. I'd love it if you also bought copies for friends, relatives,
co-workers, all the people in your company! And of course, recommend
it to everyone. :)
A couple reviews of The Power of Less: Technotip [116], Financial
Methods [117].
For other books that I recommend, see the Zen Habits bookstore on
Amazon [118]. I get a small cut from each sale made there.
Your generosity has kept this site alive! Thank you, all of you.
!! Affiliates !!
Would you like to become an affiliate and sell Zen Habits digital
products or ebooks for a 50% commission? It's easy. Check out my
affiliate program [119].
!! Subscribe !!
Now you just need to subscribe (via RSS [120] or email [121]) to make
sure you get the new posts as they come out.
You can also check out my tumblelog [122], or follow me on Twitter
[123].
---
*Read more about simple productivity, focus and getting great things
done in Leo's book, The Power of Less [124].*
* [125]*
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[1] http://zenhabits.net/about/
[2] http://twitter.com/zen_habits
[3] http://zenhabits.net/breathe/
[4] http://zenhabits.net/be-still/
[5] http://zenhabits.net/brief-guide/
[6] http://zenhabits.net/no-goal/
[7] http://zenhabits.net/solitude/
[8] http://zenhabits.net/light/
[9] http://zenhabits.net/doing/
[10] http://zenhabits.net/lean-tips/
[11] http://zenhabits.net/savor/
[12] http://zenhabits.net/no-hurry/
[13] http://zenhabits.net/email-sanity/
[14] http://zenhabits.net/barefoot-philosophy/
[15] http://zenhabits.net/creative-habit/
[16] http://zenhabits.net/the-little-but-really-useful-guide-to-creativity/
[17] http://zenhabits.net/passionguide/
[18] http://zenhabits.net/10-benefits-of-rising-early-and-how-to-do-it/
[19] http://zenhabits.net/20-things-i-wish-i-had-known-when-starting-out-in-life/
[20] http://zenhabits.net/simple-living-manifesto-72-ideas-to-simplify-your-life/
[21] http://zenhabits.net/a-guide-to-creating-a-minimalist-home/
[22] http://zenhabits.net/get-off-your-butt-16-ways-to-get-motivated-when-youre-in-a-slump/
[23] http://zenhabits.net/archives/
[24] http://zenhabits.net/tags/finance-family/
[25] http://zenhabits.net/tags/health-fitness/
[26] http://zenhabits.net/tags/goals-motivation/
[27] http://zenhabits.net/tags/habits/
[28] http://zenhabits.net/tags/happiness/
[29] http://zenhabits.net/tags/productivity-organization/
[30] http://zenhabits.net/tags/simplicity/
[31] http://zenhabits.net/2008/06/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-simplifying-your-life-and-way-more/
[32] http://zenhabits.net/2008/07/the-unsurpassable-productivity-list-a-handy-guide-to-getting-important-things-done/
[33] http://zenhabits.net/2008/06/best-tips-getting-in-shape/
[34] http://zenhabits.net/2008/07/golden-money-list/
[35] http://zenhabits.net/essential-2009/
[36] http://zenhabits.net/the-essential-zen-habits-of-2008/
[37] http://zenhabits.net/best-of-zen-habits-in-2007/
[38] http://zenhabits.net/2008/04/best-of-zen-habits-march-2008/
[39] http://zenhabits.net/2008/03/best-of-zen-habits-february-2008
[40] http://zenhabits.net/2008/02/best-of-zen-habits-january-2008
[41] http://zenhabits.net/2007/12/best-of-zen-habits-in-2007
[42] http://zenhabits.net/2007/12/best-posts-in-november
[43] http://zenhabits.net/2007/10/best-posts-in-october-and-september-with-some-news
[44] http://zenhabits.net/2007/09/best-posts-in-august
[45] http://zenhabits.net/2007/08/best-posts-in-july
[46] http://zenhabits.net/2007/07/best-posts-in-june
[47] http://zenhabits.net/2007/06/best-posts-in-may
[48] http://zenhabits.net/2007/05/aprils-best-posts
[49] http://zenhabits.net/2007/04/best-posts-in-march
[50] http://zenhabits.net/2007/02/best-posts-this-month
[51] http://zenhabits.net/notes-from-san-francisco/
[52] http://mnmlist.com
[53] http://thepowerofless.com
[54] http://focusmanifesto.com
[55] http://zenhabits.net/2007/02/my-story/
[56] http://zenhabits.net/faq/
[57] http://zenhabits.net/2008/01/open-source-blogging-feel-free-to-steal-my-content/
[58] http://zenhabits.net/2008/07/experiments-in-blogging-the-open-source-model-write-to-done-and-other-tidbits/
[59] http://zenhabits.net/2008/06/notes-on-fatherhood/
[60] http://zenhabits.net/2008/01/happy-1st-birthday-zen-habits-celebrating-one-wonderful-year/
[61] http://zenhabits.net/2008/03/notes-on-life-mantras-small-things-lists-and-such/
[62] http://zenhabits.net/2008/07/notes-on-life-positive-thinking-speeding-flow-in-meetings-reading-with-my-kids/
[63] http://zenhabits.net/2007/06/how-i-work-zen-habits-applied-to-my-life/
[64] http://zenhabits.net/2007/06/10-books-that-shaped-my-life-and-40-others-i-love/
[65] http://zenhabits.net/2008/02/the-10-biggest-influences-on-zen-habits/
[66] http://zenhabits.net/2007/08/6-annoying-fetishes-i-talk-too-much-about/
[67] http://zenhabits.net/2008/03/ask-me-anything-you-want-100-question-extravaganza/
[68] http://writetodone.com/
[69] http://webwarriortools.com
[70] http://www.ajatrinidad.com/life-of-simplicity-leo-babauta-interview/
[71] http://www.escapingthe9to5.com/podcast/zen-entrepreneurship-an-interview-with-leo-babauta-of-zenhabits-net/
[72] http://shawnblanc.net/2010/08/leo-babauta-mac-setup/
[73] http://www.todaysleaderonline.com/leo-babauta-interview/
[74] http://hilife2b.com/blog/interview-leo-babauta
[75] http://liveboldandbloom.com/06/self-improvement/blogging-superstar-seriesinterviews-with-3-top-bloggers
[76] http://runningsomewhere.com/2010/05/running-mates-leo-babauta-zenhabits-net/
[77] http://blogcastfm.com/blogger-interviews/leo-babauta-on-blogging-as-a-career-and-monetizing-your-blog/
[78] http://dreaminthelife.com/2010/04/interview-with-leo-babauta/
[79] http://productivemagazine.com/2010/03/productive-magazine-4-available-leo-babauta-interview-and-productivity-tips-and-tricks/
[80] http://motivatethyself.com/video-interview-with-leo-babauta-of-zenhabits-making-a-living-online/
[81] http://www.boxofcrayons.biz/2010/02/great-work-interview-leo-babauta/
[82] http://gtd-vsg.blogspot.com/2010/01/conversation-with-leo-babauta.html
[83] http://www.farbeyondthestars.com/an-interview-with-leo-babauta-being-minimalist-its-truly-liberating/
[84] http://blog.dancingdeer.com/index.php/site/entry_detail/deer_in_the_spotlight_leo_babauta/
[85] http://www.ducttapemarketing.com/blog/2009/11/11/how-zen-does-a-small-biz-need-to-be/
[86] http://hungrypeople.posterous.com/an-interview-with-zenhabitsnet-founder-leo-ba
[87] http://www.bfm.my/Leo-Babauta-Author-The-Power-Less.html
[88] http://www.problogger.net/archives/2007/11/08/creating-an-ebook-to-make-money-blogging-an-interview-with-leo-babauta/
[89] http://www.happiness-project.com/happiness_project/2008/04/happiness-inter.html
[90] http://blog.mint.com/blog/personal-finance-interview/personal-finance-interview-with-leo-of-zenhabitsnet/
[91] http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2007/09/19/bloggers-cribs-leo-babauta/
[92] http://effingthedog.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=37&Itemid=69
[93] http://www.parentwonder.com/content/view/402/59/
[94] http://www.mytropicalescape.com/2007/12/10/ten-questions-with-leo-babauta-of-zen-habits/
[95] http://www.anywired.com/under-the-hood-with-leo-babauta/17/
[96] http://www.balancedlifecenter.com/209-presenting-leo-babauta-of-zen-habits/
[97] http://www.theopensourcereport.com/2008/07/22/interview-with-leo-babauta-of-zen-habits-on-open-source-as-a-model-for-online-publishing/
[98] http://freelancewrite.about.com/od/writingcommunities/a/Leo.htm
[99] http://www.sparkplugging.com/the-man-page/leo-babauta-on-work-life-balance/
[100] http://www.slackermanager.com/2008/05/leo-babauta-may-2008-inductee-into-the-order-of-the-golden-slacker.html
[101] http://www.vegblog.org/archive/2007/11/14/an-interview-with-leo-babauta/
[102] http://www.retireat21.com/interview/Leo-Babauta-Interview-ZenHabits-Goals-Frugal-Living-Motivation-and-Being-Organized
[103] http://systems-overload.blogspot.com/2008/03/my-interview-with-zenhabits-writer-leo.html
[104] http://www.theratingblog.com/leo-babauta-zenhabitsnet
[105] http://www.bontb.com/2007/11/interview-with-leo-babauta-from-zen-habits/
[106] http://www.successsoul.com/2008/06/07/an-interview-with-leo-babauta-on-simplicity-clarity-happiness-and-success/
[107] http://www.alexshalman.com/blog/2008/02/04/happiness-project-leo-babauta-of-zenhabits/
[108] http://bemoreconfident.info/../2007/11/zen-to-done-the-simple-productivity-e-book/
[109] http://zenhabits.net/2009/09/my-new-ebook-the-simple-guide-to-a-minimalist-life/
[110] http://zenhabits.net/2008/02/new-e-book-the-zen-habits-handbook-for-life/
[111] http://themotivationhandbook.com/
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[115] http://www.indiebound.org/
[116] http://technotip.org/the-power-of-less-the-book/
[117] http://financialmethods.org/2009/06/book-review-the-power-of-less.html
[118] http://astore.amazon.com/zenhab-20
[119] http://zenhabits.net/affiliates/
[120] http://feeds.feedburner.com/zenhabits
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[122] http://zenhabits.tumblr.com
[123] http://twitter.com/zen_habits
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