Lessons from the Fearless Retreat
I’m creating a new Fearless Retreat in October that will be a part of my Fearless Mastery program …
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Be All In: Unlock Your Full Power
By Leo Babauta One of the things that really humbled me in recent years is the realization that I am often only halfway in on anything I do. I’m rarely ever really all in. For example, I might join a coaching program with the idea of trying it out, but not really sure if I […]
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Turn Struggle into Creativity
By Leo Babauta Most people think that if they’re struggling, that means something is wrong. If you’re struggling to write, to meditate, to eat healthily, to be focused and productive … or struggling in a relationship or job … that means something is wrong with you, or you need to change your circumstances, or this […]
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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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Beyond Getting Stuff Done
By Leo Babauta I’ve noticed that so many of us are incredibly focused on getting stuff done. Productivity systems and tools, anxiety about being behind on all the things we have to do, a complete focus on all the stuff to do, at the exclusion of all else … But here’s the thing: if you […]
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We Overcomplicate Our Task Systems
I’ve noticed that most people (myself often included) make complicated task and organizational systems.
The Parable of Luminous Reality
By Leo Babauta The boy awoke one morning to a startling discovery — that everything he believed was not the truth. He realized that the way he’d been seeing things was only one way of seeing things. His view of things was not absolute but tentative. What he saw this morning is that everything was […]
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Creating When You Feel Resistance
I’ve noticed that most of us let ourselves be driven by our resistance to something difficult, scary, unknown. We take on a hard task — creating something, for example — and then we feel some kind of resistance.
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.