Monthly Archive: November 2015

11 Years of Growth

11 Years of Growth

As part of my website update project, I planned to spend a day or so cleaning up the first two years of my blog (2004 to 2006). I started blogging with WordPress version 1.x, and blogging was still a young medium in 2004, so I wasn’t sure where to go with it. During those years […]

Gratitude to Cure the Impulse to Buy More Stuff

Gratitude to Cure the Impulse to Buy More Stuff

By Leo Babauta It’s funny that two days with such opposing spirits come back-to-back in our calendars here in the U.S.: Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday. One is about being thankful for what you have, and the other is about getting more of what you don’t have. They aren’t aligned at all. The good news […]

Change Your Story to Change Your Life

Change Your Story to Change Your Life

By Leo Babauta Whenever we undertake a new change in our lives — whether it’s starting a new job or business, or changing a new habit — we tell ourselves a story about it. We’re the hero of our story. Unfortunately, it’s not usually a very good story — it involves the hero not believing […]

Entrepreneurs Grow at Warp Speed – Part 5

Entrepreneurs Grow at Warp Speed – Part 5

This is the fifth and final article in the series about the connection between entrepreneurship and personal growth called Entrepreneurs Grow at Warp Speed. Take command of your life As an entrepreneur you decide which goals, projects, and opportunities to pursue. You don’t have to waste your time working hard to achieve someone else’s goals. […]

How to Want Very Little

How to Want Very Little

By Leo Babauta There’s a part of today’s consumerist world that drives us to want more, buy more, act on our impulses, hoard, spend to solve our problems, create comfort through shopping, seek thrills through travel, do more, be more. What would happen if we broke from our addiction to wanting and buying more? What […]

Entrepreneurs Grow at Warp Speed – Part 4

Entrepreneurs Grow at Warp Speed – Part 4

This article continues the series about the connection between entrepreneurship and personal growth called Entrepreneurs Grow at Warp Speed. Overcome limited thinking When you run your own business, you’ll see how your thoughts and beliefs impact your business results. Your personal limitations will limit what your business can do. The motivation to grow and improve […]

Entrepreneurs Grow at Warp Speed – Part 3

Entrepreneurs Grow at Warp Speed – Part 3

This article continues the series about the connection between entrepreneurship and personal growth called Entrepreneurs Grow at Warp Speed. Learn the pain of indecision Indecision hurts. When you have a business, you’ll be punished for indecision. You’ll lose customers, miss opportunities, and struggle with lower sales if you don’t get your act together. Many would-be entrepreneurs can’t even […]

A Healthy Way to Aspire to a Better Life

A Healthy Way to Aspire to a Better Life

By Leo Babauta I have a friend who is unhappy with his life — being in debt, lonely, with a job he doesn’t like, in a town he doesn’t like. I asked him what ideals he has about life that his current life isn’t meeting. He reflected for awhile, and said he wants to find […]