How to Achieve Your Goals with Healthy Habits

Note: This is a guest post by Leo Babauta who blogs at Zen Habits about setting goals, creating habits, productivity, GTD, motivation, exercise and more. We’ve all faced the disappointment and guilt t...Full Article

Selective Apathy Frees You to Care More

 What do you think of this phrase: “The Joy of Apathy”? It sounds like such a clashing contradiction: how can joy, which is associated with happiness and passion, be found in the opposi...Full Article

Now Do This, and The Single- Tasking Philosophy

There’s a new online to-do app that’s come out called Now Do This: — I know, there are already a million of them, but I love this one for its simplicity and philosophy that’s so similar to mine.It’s a...Full Article

How to Stay Motivated Without Wax & Wane

 “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm” - Ralph Waldo EmersonIn the same way we use a savings account to ensure our financial success, we can use an inspiration bank to remain highl...Full Article

Motivation - How to Achieve Any Goal

    “Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.” - Henry FordOne of the biggest challenges in meeting any goal, whether it be related to product...Full Article

How To Deal With Indecision

“People say I’m indecisive, but I don’t know about that.” - George Bush“Ummm… I’m not sure…” We all suffer from indecision at times. If we are not careful, this can become a debilitating problem which...Full Article

Motivation for the Things You Hate Doing

Everyone has things they hate to do, but need to do anyway. Sometimes it is doing basic chores that need to be done. In other cases, it’s the boring part of an otherwise interesting project. People wh...Full Article

How to Focus Your Enthusiasm

I recently had a conversation with a reader over the 30 Day Trial method. The idea, made popular by Steve Pavlina, is that you stay focused on one change for thirty days. After that, it becomes a habi...Full Article

Top 10 Interesting Facts About the Brain

Our brain is amazing. All scientific and technological achievements of human civilization come from the brain.To better appreciate the magic of the brain, here are top 10 interesting facts about the h...Full Article

9 Dangerous Mind Development Killers You Should Avoid

Knowing what we shouldn’t do is just as important as knowing what we should. In fact, it could be easier to see something wrong in things we already do than to see something right in things we haven’t...Full Article

Anger Is A Very Common Human Emotion

Anger is a very common human emotion and at some time or another we all experience it. From young children to old people we all feel anger at various times and for various reasons. There is nothing wr...Full Article

How to Focus

A few weeks ago I wrote about the danger of being obsessed. There I wrote that there are three states we can possibly be in: lacking focus, being focused, and being obsessed. The best state is being f...Full Article

How to Create a Non-Optional Mindset

Towel throwers and ball droppersPeople often ask me why it is that they seem to have so much trouble sticking with their commitment to changing certain behaviours and habits; doing what they need to d...Full Article

5 Ways to Bury a Great Idea

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your s...Full Article

Top 20 Motivation Hacks - An Overview

For the last two weeks I’ve been posting the Top 20 Motivation Hacks, one by one. These are the tips and tricks that, if used in combination, are a nearly sure way to achieve your goals.Achieving goal...Full Article

Motivation Doesn’t Need to Be Sexy;

Staying motivated is problem that is both simple and complicated at the same time. It’s simple because the key to staying motivated is to find what drives you and connect that to whatever you do. It’s...Full Article

The Danger of Being Obsessed and How to Overcome It

I often write about the importance of focus. Lacking focus will bring you nowhere since you do not devote enough time and energy to accomplish your goals. The danger of lacking focus is nothing strang...Full Article

Pick a number: It can simplify your life

So, what does Jerry Seinfeld and a typical sales person have in common? A focus on a key number. Seinfeld always needed new jokes so early in his career he used a calendar and a big red marker to cros...Full Article

How to Overcome Apathy (If You Can Be Bothered…)

I write a lot about productivity. But productivity only matters if you have a reason to be productive. If you don’t have the motivation, then waking up early, setting up to-do lists and changing ...Full Article

Can the Lifehacking Concept Help You Live Until the Singularity?

Most geeks know who Ray Kurzweil is. Most musicians do too, and so do many blind people. Kurzweil has invented so many things in so many different fields, it’s hard to know where to begin.Perhaps one ...Full Article