The Beginner’s Guide to Zen Habits - A Guided Tour

I'd like to introduce you to one of my favorite places to visit, Zen Habits. Leo Babuta is the author of The Power Of Less. He believes that doing less doesn't necessarily equate with being less productive, and that owning less does not mean that we have less. The offerings you will find at Zen Habits respect the philosophy that abundance can be achieved through savoring simplicity.
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The Beginner's Guide to Zen Habits

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: The All-Time Most Popular Posts on Zen Habits:

1. 10 Benefits of Rising Early, and How to Do It
2. 20 Things I Wish I Had Known When Starting Out in Life
3. Simple Living Manifesto: 72 Ideas to Simplify Your Life
4. The Cheapskate Guide: 50 Tips for Frugal Living
5. A Guide to Creating a Minimalist Home
6. 10 Tasty, Easy and Healthy Breakfast Ideas
7. 50 Ways to Be Romantic on the Cheap
8. 30 Things to Do to Keep From Getting Bored Out of Your Skull at Work
9. Get Off Your Butt: 16 Ways to Get Motivated When You’re in a Slump
10. Top 42 Exercise Hacks
11. Handbook for Life: 52 Tips for Happiness and Productivity
12. Simple Living Simplified: 10 Things You Can Do Today to Simplify Your Life
13. Top 20 Motivation Hacks - An Overview

But those are just the stars of the All-Star team. Next you’ll want to delve into some of your favorite topics. You can go through the main categories:

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