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

The Beginner’s Guide to Zen Habits - A Guided Tour
Whilesome of you have been following Zen Habits since its early days(beginning of 2007), many of you are fairly new readers. To help youthrough the fairly overwhelming archives, I’ve compiled a beginner’sguide. 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 thatso that you can go to the stuff you want to learn about first. Take itin 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 theyare: The All-Time Most Popular Posts on Zen Habits:
10 Benefits of Rising Early, and How to Do It
20 Things I Wish I Had Known When Starting Out in Life
Simple Living Manifesto: 72 Ideas to Simplify Your Life
The Cheapskate Guide: 50 Tips for Frugal Living
A Guide to Creating a Minimalist Home
10 Tasty, Easy and Healthy Breakfast Ideas
50 Ways to Be Romantic on the Cheap
30 Things to Do to Keep From Getting Bored Out of Your Skull at Work
Get Off Your Butt: 16 Ways to Get Motivated When You’re in a Slump
Top 42 Exercise Hacks
Handbook for Life: 52 Tips for Happiness and Productivity
Simple Living Simplified: 10 Things You Can Do Today to Simplify Your Life
Top 20 Motivation Hacks - An Overview
But those are just the stars of the All-Star team. Next you’ll wantto delve into some of your favorite topics. You can go through the maincategories:
Finance & Family
Fitness
Goals
Habits
Happiness
Motivation
Productivity & Organization
Simplicity
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
The Unsurpassable Productivity List: A Handy Guide to Getting Important Things Done
All The Best Tips on Getting In Shape, In One Handy List
The Golden Money List: Hundreds of Tips for Turning Your Financial Life Around
And if that’s not enough for you, here’s a month-by-month Best of Zen Habits:
Best of March 2008
Best of February 2008
Best of January 2008
Best of Zen Habits 2007
Best of November 2007
Best of September and October 2007
Best of August 200
Best of July 2007
Best of June 2007
Best of May 2007
Best of April 2007
Best of March 2007
Best of February 2007
By now, you might want to know more about Leo, the guy who writes this blog … well, here’s more than you ever wanted to know:
My Story
Uncopyright (I’ve made all the articles on this blog in the public domain)
Experiments in Blogging (results of the Uncopyright and more)
Notes on Fatherhood
Celebrating Zen Habits’ first birthday
Notes on Life, andmore Notes on Life
How I Work
10 Books that Shaped My Life
10 Biggest Influences on Zen Habits
6 Annoying Fetishes I Talk Too Much About
Ask Me Anything - 100 Question Extravaganza
My blog about writing and blogging:Write To Done
My ebook publishing site:Web Warrior Tools
And lots of interviews with Leo:ProBlogger,Happiness Project,Personal Finances,Leo’s “Crib”,Effing the Dog,Parenting,My Tropical Escape,My Digital Setup,Balanced Life Center,On Open-Source Blogging,On Freelancing,On Work-Life Balance,Slacker Manager,Veg Blog,Frugal Living,Systems Overload,Online Entrepreurship,On Blogging,Success Soul,More on Happiness.
Whew! That was a lot of reading. Now you just need to subscribe (viaRSS oremail) to make sure you get the new posts as they come out. Oh, and if you like,you can donate, or buy one of my ebooks:Zen To Done orthe Zen Habits Handbook for Life.
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