By Leo Babauta The country I live in has a pretty bitter divide between many of its people, and I’ll admit that it often feels hopeless to me. If you don’t live in the U.S., I’m sure you can see a similar divide in your country as well: People judging each other, angry and fearful, […]
Category: Intimacy & Whole-Hearted Connection
How to Be More Present & Alive in the Moment
By Leo Babauta One of the people in my Fearless Mastery mastermind group is an amazing leader who is exceedingly good at getting things done and leading a team. Her entire life is filled with doing, and she’s so good at it. What she wants to shift is more into Being, and it’s a beautiful […]
Staying Connected to Meaning in Your Work
By Leo Babauta For anyone trying to do meaningful work, feeling connected to that meaning can be a big challenge. It turns out, even if you can stay focused on your meaningful work for most of the day … it’s easy to lose connection to why it’s meaningful. To why you care about doing this […]
The Not Knowing of This Moment of Confronting Racism
By Leo Babauta Last week, I spent some time trying to write an article both celebrating Juneteenth, and inviting all of us to examine the root of our own racism. I struggled. I didn’t know exactly what to say, didn’t have any good solutions to offer, didn’t feel I had a grasp of the situation […]
It’s Time to Change the Status Quo
By Leo Babauta This is a painful time for so many of us. There is anger, outrage, pain, fear, racism, injustice, sadness, exhaustion — and it’s not just a recent thing, it goes back generations, as far as our country has existed. It’s heartbreaking. We need to let our hearts be broken by how minorities, […]
The Importance of Meditation in Crazy Times
By Leo Babauta These are times of heightened change, disruption, uncertainty, fear, anxiety. It can feel pretty crazy for most of us. So how do we cope? What can we do in the middle of chaos and crisis? This is when meditation becomes of critical importance. Without meditation, we have no way of dealing with […]
3 Steps to Deepen Your Mindfulness Practice
By Leo Babauta Let’s imagine that you’re a reasonably healthy adult with all of your basic needs met, people who care about you in your life, and things you enjoy doing available to you … you should be pretty happy, right? It turns out, even in this incredibly lucky scenario, most of us still struggle […]
When Your Expectations of Others is Making You Frustrated
By Leo Babauta Why do we get angry or frustrated or disappointed in other people in our lives? Be honest — it happens to all of us, right? Other people can seem rude, frustrating, untrustworthy, inconsiderate, hurtful. And while there is no excuse for abusive or hurtful behavior, a lot of the time, the real […]
How to Be Kind to Yourself & Still Get Stuff Done
By Leo Babauta I’ve found that there are two profound changes that almost any of of us can make: Become kinder to ourselves Build trust in ourselves Unfortunately, because we don’t really trust ourselves, we’re very rarely kind to ourselves. When I ask people to start being kind to themselves, they usually come back at […]
Working with the Heartbreaking Feeling That Something is Wrong with You
“I found the Divine within my Heart.” ~Rumi By Leo Babauta The most common problem I’ve found in the people I’ve coached and worked with in my programs is a very fundamental problem: Most people have the feeling that something is wrong with them. And it is heartbreaking. Actually, most people would say that their […]