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Leo Babauta
- PublicNew on Zen Habits: How to Make Health Insurance a Bad Bet. Thoughts?
Post written by Leo Babauta. I'm a self-employed business owner, which means I need to buy my own health insurance — and even a high-deductible plan would end up costing me thousands of dollars a year...
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Abdourahmane Wane
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As a Canadian, I say vote for health care in your country. Every citizen has a right to excellent health care whether you are healthy, physically, mentally, emotionally, or spiritually sick, in an accident, God forbid, external uncontrollable illnesses that could ravish a family's well being, emotionally or financially. The last thing you want to think about when someone is ill, is can we afford this? Vote for excellent health care.
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- PublicNew on Zen Habits: Why the Fitness Habit is More Important Than the Plan.
Post written by Leo Babauta. In the last few months, I've spent a bit of time working with a group of fantastic fitness experts to create a fitness program that I think could change people's lives. Bu...
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Ruth Barringham
I hate exercising. Period. I'm not lazy. I have a clean house, a clean car a neatly swept yard, a regularly mowed lawn, all my bushes and trees trimmed neatly, I swim in my pool a 2 to 3 times a week, and I walk my dog twice a day. But exercising for the sake of movement? Boring.
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- PublicNew on Zen Habits: The Willingness to Think Differently.
Post written by Leo Babauta. I can summarize the most successful people I've ever known with one trait: the willingness to challenge mainstream ideas. This has been the key to everything good in my li...
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- PublicNew on Zen Habits: Create a Superhealth Community. Thoughts?
Post written by Leo Babauta. This article in the N.Y. Times about the superhealthy community on the little Greek island of Ikaria is enlightening. Ikarians are living much older than most other Wester...
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Anna Krasnodębska
Hello Leo! Have you read a book by doctor Dean Ornish "Love and survival"? If not, I highly recommend it to you. It's about the healing power of love and intimacy and community from a physician's perspective. You may have heard about his program where it was proven that coronary disease can be reversed with lifestyle changes including whole foods plant based diet.
PS. Thank you for the blog!
PS. Thank you for the blog!
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Leo Babauta
- PublicSubmit & Vote on Questions for Tim Ferriss
Next week, I'll be interviewing best-selling author Timothy Ferriss (of the 4-Hour Work Week and 4-Hour Body) on the topic of how to best learn anything. Submit questions using the link below (not in the comments) and vote for the best questions.
The top 5 questions will definitely be answered by Tim, who has an upcoming book coming out on this topic. The next 5 questions will probably be answered too.
Submit and vote using the link now!
http://www.google.com/moderator/#15/e=203355&t=203355.40&v=5
Next week, I'll be interviewing best-selling author Timothy Ferriss (of the 4-Hour Work Week and 4-Hour Body) on the topic of how to best learn anything. Submit questions using the link below (not in the comments) and vote for the best questions.
The top 5 questions will definitely be answered by Tim, who has an upcoming book coming out on this topic. The next 5 questions will probably be answered too.
Submit and vote using the link now!
http://www.google.com/moderator/#15/e=203355&t=203355.40&v=5
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Leo Babauta
- PublicWriting Tip: Passive Voice
via: http://blog.grammarly.com/post/34095768680/writeworld-mightymur-the-final-brilliant
“She was killed [by zombies.]” <—- passive
“Zombies killed [by zombies] her.” <—- active
I dunno 'bout you, but this will help me immensely!
via: http://blog.grammarly.com/post/34095768680/writeworld-mightymur-the-final-brilliant
“She was killed [by zombies.]” <—- passive
“Zombies killed [by zombies] her.” <—- active
I dunno 'bout you, but this will help me immensely!
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Leo Babauta
- PublicEva to the kids: "What's not to like about celery?"
Noelle, our six-year-old, replies without missing a beat:
"Well first, it's green ... second, it's a vegetable ... and third, it grows from dirt and water!"
Noelle, our six-year-old, replies without missing a beat:
"Well first, it's green ... second, it's a vegetable ... and third, it grows from dirt and water!"
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Kenneth Vogt
When asking questions one must be prepared to hear the answers. ;-) Six-year-olds are a largely untapped source of wisdom.
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- PublicNew on Zen Habits: A Vegan Tour of NYC.
Delicious food from Dirt Candy in NYC. Post written by Leo Babauta. Eva and I just got back from a trip to New York City, and we loved it — it was Eva's first visit, and our first trip where we were b...
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- PublicNew on Zen Habits: Just For Fun. Thoughts?
Post written by Leo Babauta. Just about everything I do is just for fun. While some people like to focus on being disciplined and achieving goals and sticking to their plans, I find this to be meaning...
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Savanni D'Gerinel
I want to toss out another point.
If I am working on something "just for fun", it might look like real work to other people, but I'm going to do it better than I will do anything assigned to me. Partly because I'm doing it for fun. Partly because I care. I can't normally claim that for any of the things assigned to me.
If I am working on something "just for fun", it might look like real work to other people, but I'm going to do it better than I will do anything assigned to me. Partly because I'm doing it for fun. Partly because I care. I can't normally claim that for any of the things assigned to me.
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Leo Babauta
- PublicGuest post on Zen Habits: 11 Simple Ways to Create Genuine Connections with the People Who Make Failure Impossible. From +Scott Dinsmore
Editor's Note: This is a guest post from Scott Dinsmore of Live Your Legend. There's probably one thing we can agree on: The people around you dictate your success. They can also forecast our failure....
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