How to Stick to Long-Term Changes
If you’re trying to lose weight or gain muscle, you can work really hard at it for a week … and see no change.
Category: Resiliency & Change
5 Ways to Reduce Your Stress Levels
Stress is a part of life, and eliminating it is a fool’s errand.
We’re Mostly Trying to Escape This Moment
Much of our days, we’re trying to escape. In fact, you might call this the primary occupation of the human animal.
The Joy of Small Comforts
Some days, I’m in need of some comfort. I’m tired, emotionally drained, or just feeling besieged by the world.
Changing Habits: How to Let Go of Sacred Cows
By Leo Babauta To change a habit — whether you’re starting a new habit or quitting an old one — you have to let go of something really important to you. This is why most people struggle with habit change — it’s not easy to let go of your sacred cows. Let’s take a few […]
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Embarrassment is an Integral Part of the Growth Process
By Leo Babauta A well-known climbing coach said that the biggest obstacle in the way of people’s growth as climbers is, basically, fear of embarrassment. When people want to get better at climbing, they try to do it privately, so that no one can see them doing things badly. They’ll go to the climbing gym […]
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Simplify Habits: Get to the True Heart of Change
By Leo Babauta Creating a new habit like meditation, journaling or exercise isn’t incredibly complicated — at the most basic level, you tie the habit to a trigger that’s already in your life, start small, and find ways to encourage yourself to remember it and actually do it. But it becomes a much more complicated […]
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The Practice of Letting Go of Mental Constructs
Everything we believe about ourselves and others is an idea, an image constructed in our heads. And these mental constructs can be some of our biggest obstacles and struggles.
We Make Everything Harder
It sometimes amazes me how we make everything harder for ourselves than it needs to be.
Seeing the Gift
By Leo Babauta There are a number of common blockers for creating powerful change in your life: Each of these can derail your efforts to create something new. And to be clear, there is nothing wrong with any of these — they’re wonderfully human traits. But to create powerful change, we have to learn to work […]
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