When it comes to work, I’ve found that most of us fall in one of two camps. We ...

As I’ve been diving into my Fearless Mastery mastermind program, with some of the most amazing people, I’ve been ...

Some days, you’re just not feeling it. It’s not that you’re exhausted, it’s that you’re not in the ...

The clients I work with almost all put incredible expectations on themselves—they have higher standards than almost anybody ...

I don’t care about being efficient and productive just to be a better person, to get more done, ...

OK, calling this a “lost art” is a bit of hyperbole, because there are some people who actually ...

Before I started Zen Habits, I was in a place in my life where I had a beautiful ...

Mindfulness has become quite a buzzword in the last decade or so, and for good reason. It’s powerful ...

This pandemic is no longer an exciting (but scary) novelty. We’re more than a couple of months into ...

I highly recommend this year-end practice, as a way to close out the year and say goodbye to ...

It’s a fundamental fact of human life that we want our lives to be under control—we develop plans, ...

How many of you have felt overwhelmed recently by everything you have to do? How many of you ...

Our minds have the tendency to turn away from what we fear and resist the most. We naturally ...

Many of us are (rightfully) focused on taking care of our health, eating nourishing whole foods, and trying ...

Very often, our lives are so filled with busyness and distraction that we have no space to actually ...

This world presents us with a shaky, uncertain, constantly changing landscape. Our response is to try to get ...

I’ve been working with a few people who are very intelligent, very competent, and very talented—but they get ...

I have a friend who is working on a meaningful project that he wants to focus on so ...

All my life, I’ve struggled with being half-committed. Not always, but more than I’d usually like to admit. ...

We’ve all, at some point, felt frustrated by someone who seems constantly negative, who complains, gets offended by ...

I’m far from mastering this skill, but one thing I’ve been playing around with is how important mental ...

Why do people have so much stuff? Even though my family and I have relatively little compared to ...

A little boy was taught he wasn’t good enough by his father who criticized him, yelled at him, hit ...

My family and I flew back to California after nine months of being in Guam, and boy are ...

We’re in the middle of a big move back to California from Guam, and things are in great ...

Our society is obsessed with productivity and optimizing our lives—having the perfect routine, perfect diet, perfect productivity system, ...

How often have you half-heartedly committed to something, never fully following through on that commitment? How often have ...