Archives for the 'habits' Category
Happy New Year! The Zen Habits January Challenge: Start Your Year Off Right [Zen Habits]
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. - Aristotle
Happy New Year, my friends! I’m extremely excited about having another great year with you guys. I hope the New Year is going well for you and your families.
I’d like to give you a great tip to start [...]
5 Powerful Reasons to Make Reflection a Daily Habit, and How to Do It [Zen Habits]
It’s New Year’s Eve (where I live), and I’ve been doing a lot of reflection over the last year. It’s the perfect time of year to look back and reflect on what you’ve done right this year, to learn from what you’ve done.
And on further reflection, this habit of reflection is something that I’ve developed [...]
The Zen of Shaving: How a Double-edge Razor Can Change Your Life [Zen Habits]
Editor’s note: This is a guest post from John Koontz, a moderator at the Badger & Blade forum on wet shaving.
If I told you a way you could improve your health, save money, help the environment, and feel better about yourself by doing something you already do every day, would you be interested?
As a reader [...]
The secret of how to break a habit [FruitfulTime Blog]
Stopping a habit is not easy and one encounters various levels of difficulty in trying to do so. These difficulty levels depend on what the habit is, for how long has it been part of the life of the victim and how often the victim exercised the habit.
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New Year’s Resolutions Link-O-Rama [How to be an Original]
Yes, it’s that time of year again. New Year’s Resolutions!
Essentially new year’s resolutions are simply goals or habit changes, but they are used by more people because they are somewhat of a tradition. The problem with new year’s resolutions is that they fail so often. The intention is right, but most people fail to adopt [...]
Organize IT Recap 14th Dec 2007 [Organize IT]
Organize IT recap for 14th December 2007
What better way to learn about productivity in the higher echelons of business than to hear the inside story of Disney’s CEO, Bob Iger? While the article doesn’t go into great detail, it does raise some interesting points, especially about putting history to work.
In what sounds like quite a [...]
Join the December Challenge, and a Zen Habits Facebook group! [Zen Habits]
This is a couple days late, so I apologize … but I’ve started the December Challenge forum in the Zen Habits forums. I encourage anyone looking to form a new habit in December to go there, join the ZH forums, and post your personal December Challenge!
How it works: The Zen Habits monthly challenges are a [...]
5 reasons (not) to drink coffee [How to be an Original]
photo by CoffeeGeek
I enjoy drinking several cups of coffee a day, but I never really knew whether I should or should not drink this stuff. Is it bad for me, or is it good for me? Does it really have an effect, or do I think it has an effect? I know the latter can [...]
The importance of adopting a bias for action [How to be an Original]
Sometimes I turn to past and present teachers to learn and to be inspired. This time I’m talking with them about action. And boy, do they have a lot to say about it!
Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.
- Bryant H. McGill
Action is [...]
Five Things You Need to Know About Effective Habit Change [zen habits]
Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Ian Newby-Clark, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada who studies habit change.
As a psychology professor who has studied habit change for several years, I have some advice about effective habit change. My advice is general. It applies to any habit [...]