Track Your Triggers
By Leo Babauta For the first few days of this month, I’d like you to not quit your habit yet. Instead, it’s important that you learn what your triggers are. You might already have an idea, but for three days, I’d like you to be like a nature scientist, observing an animal’s habits in the […]
Use Beautiful Mornings to Set Up Your Year’s Habits
This year, I invite you to dive deeper into mastering the skills of changing habits. If you’re new (or struggling), I invite you to do the Fundamentals track for the year. Spend the year really practicing the fundamentals of habit change, and in the process, form some great foundational habits. If you’re a bit experienced […]
Working Without Expectations
A great practice is to become aware of when we have expectations throughout the day … and then practice tossing them out and trying to work without them. Let’s look a little deeper into how to do that. With practice, you can become better and better at recognizing your expectations as they arise. Don’t worry […]
Letting Go of Being Judgmental
When you let go of expectations, you are letting go of judgment, and forming a non-judgmental way of being in the world. For some of you, that might not sound that great — why not judge something as wrong if it’s wrong? Why not judge things as bad if they’re bad? Why not judge the […]
A List of Expectations You Might Notice
As you practice letting go of expectations, you might notice that it’s challenging just to notice the expectations — we suggest you use visual and computer/phone reminders to keep this in your awareness during the day. But sometimes even harder is noticing that you even have an expectation — they’re so ingrained in us, and […]
2. All About Tossing Out Your Expectations
Let’s talk a little bit about having goals and ambitions without expectations. We must start with the realization that just because we have a goal, doesn’t mean we can actually make that happen. We don’t actually control the outcome of life, even if it seems we do. The goal only provides an illusion of control. […]
Sacred Bow: An Intentional Way to Close Out the Year & Start the New Year
In this final month of the year, we’re going to do our challenge a bit differently … we’re going to take a month to close out this year intentionally, and consciously set our intentions and plans for next year. I think this is going to be fantastic, and I hope you’ll take me up on […]
The Drop Deeper into Mindfulness Challenge
I invite you to step into the New Year with intentionality and mindfulness. By focusing on mindfulness at the beginning of the year, we are laying down a foundation for all other changes we make this year. Mindfulness helps us change all other habits: procrastination & productivity, exercise, healthy eating, relationships, writing & creating, and […]