By Leo Babauta We’re in the midst of the holiday season, and with that can come a lot of abundance: Busier schedules, holiday parties, travel More eating, more drinking, more excess More shopping, more spending, more financial stress It’s a beautiful season, but it can be a lot! In this article, I’m going...

By Leo Babauta You start the day with the feeling: there’s a bunch of things I need to do right away. Then the rest of the day, you’re driven by the feeling that there’s so much to do, and you’re behind on it all. You finish the day with the same feeling, and it carries over until tomorrow. The constant feeling of being behind...

By Leo Babauta People have often told me that they’re surprised by how much I get done during the week, from team members to clients. I’m not saying that to brag, but to relate that I forget how much work I’ve done to be able to make a bigger impact in the world. So in this article, I’d like to share some of my secrets. In truth,...

By Leo Babauta This morning I was eating a really simple meal, with minimal seasoning, and I savored its deliciousness. Often I go the opposite way: I eat too much, too quickly, with an overwhelming number of flavors. And I barely taste any of it. This is how I sometimes experience life: I do so much, so quickly, and have an overwhelming...

By Leo Babauta The way most of us take on our work, or anything else in our lives, is that we do it because we’re supposed to, we have to, we’re obligated to, we’re expected to, we should. What this creates is a life of obligation and burden, of churning out things just for the sake of churning them out. A life of pointlessness...

By Leo Babauta A year ago, my team & I started a grand experiment in our Fearless Living Academy, designed to create the best training possible for learning to face and deal with uncertainty in our lives, especially around habits and purpose work. We call it the Uncertainty Challenge. It’s a 4-week challenge that...