Zen Habits is a blog written by Leo Babauta about implementing zen habits in daily life. It offers suggestions for how to live and also includes frequent references to how Leo Babauta has implemented these habits. He covers topics such as simplifying, living frugally, parenting, happiness, motivation, eliminating debt, saving, eating healthily and successfully implementing good habits.

Blog history

Until approximately 2010, the blog focused largely on topics such as productivity and being organized, but Babauta later drifted away from these topics. In a post titled "Toss Productivity Out", published 6 September 2011, Babauta explicitly encouraged his readers to focus on simplifying their lives rather than getting more things done.

About Leo Babauta

Zen Habits was created by Leo Babauta (born April 30, 1973), a blogger, journalist and author from the United States

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who currently lives in

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. Babauta's first post was on February 1, 2007. In February 2009, ''

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'' named Zen Habits one of the Top 25 Blogs for 2009, and in June 2010, it named Zen Habits at the top of its list for the Top 25 Blogs for 2010.

e-book

On November 6, 2007, an

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called ''Zen To Done: The Ultimate Simple

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'' was made available to purchase. It is composed of some of Zen Habits' popular blog posts. On January 7, 2008, the Zen Habits blog and ''Zen to Done'' e-book were dedicated to the

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. Babauta also publishe
The Little Book of Contentment
in 2013.

Books

On December 30, 2008, Babauta's first print book, ''The Power of Less'', was published by

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. In December 2014, Babauta self-published a book that was funded on Kickstarter, entitle
Zen Habits: Mastering the Art of Change
In December 2015, he revised and re-published a concise version of the book as "Essential Zen Habits".Essential Zen Habits
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