Where to Find Zen Habits:
Blog URL: http://zenhabits.net/
Category: Personal Development, Simplicity

Zen Habits

“My name is Leo Babauta, I’m married with six kids, I live on Guam, I’m a writer and a runner and a vegetarian and I love writing Zen Habits.”

That about sums up the life of Zen Habits writer Leo, and gives a bit of an insight into what his blog is about. As for the rest, the blog is a steady stream of posts to help simplify your life in the Zen fashion, an exercise in simple productivity, and a behind-the-scenes look at the real life of a productivity blogger. And it’s all good things.

Zen Habits - Why You Should Go

Zen Habits is a collection of thoughts, issues, current events, and personal analyses all presented with the admirable goal of helping writer Leo and his readers accomplish the very enviable task of living more productively and contentedly. The blog is more than a reiteration of the habits of the truly Zen, it is a way to compare modern life and marry it to the tenets of the philosophy for personal betterment and fulfillment. Instead of just telling you how the Zen should live, Leo applies the concepts to all manner of things, from personal observations to issues in the news.

Summing Up Zen Habits

On the About page Zen Habits posts a simple quote from Aristotle that reads,

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.”

This serves as the basis behind the blog, and as a simple guide for living life well. Zen Habits is an illustration in how you can achieve this end in diverse and ever simplified ways. It’s a philosophy worth exploring, that you might just find impacts significantly in your life and efforts at finding an even balance.

Go here to check out Zen Habits.

Mary Ward
Do You Digg It!
Blog Review Team
Do You Digg It! © 2008

Where to Find On Simplicity:
Blog URL: http://www.onsimplicity.net/
Category: Simplicity, Personal Development

On Simplicity

Sara is a girl on a mission, too—a mission to get more out of life by paring it down to the essentials. She believes in the power of simplicity, whatever that may mean to you, and in “amplifying life’s pleasures by clearing out the clutter…” Her blog is a practical guide to achieving simplicity as she learns it herself through her own personal efforts at “creating a happier, easier, more enjoyable life…”

On Simplicity - Why You Should Go

Simplicity means many things to many people, and so one of the missions of this blog is to clarify that meaning. Recognizing that the ideal of simplicity is personal, Sara offers her definition of what simplicity means and can be to her, but encourages readers to add their own for their own personal development. For Sara, though, simplicity is ” stripping everything away from our lives: assumptions, preconceptions, fears and dreams, and then keeping only the things that we truly value. It’s about being happy with enough, and finding contentment from within.”

The posts at On Simplicity vary, with all aimed at helping readers find their individual paths to simplicity and contentment; on any given day that may include how-to posts, tips and tricks, or insights and inspirations. It’s an interesting enough and effective enough mix to keep you coming back, and to have engaged a healthy community of readers and commenters.

Summing Up On Simplicity

There are few lives that couldn’t benefit from some worthwhile paring down to the simpler side of life. This is a blog that has the goods to help you do that, one that you’ll find interesting, insightful, and useful as you work towards less, and enjoy less more.

Go here to check out On Simplicity.

Mary Ward
Do You Digg It!
Blog Review Team
Do You Digg It! © 2008