I’m delighted to present a conversation with my friend and colleague Leo Babauta of Zen Habits.net. As many of you know, Leo and I jointly run the writer’s blog Write to Done. Leo has just launched his new book The Power of Less
which has already shot up the charts on Amazon.com..

Leo:
My goal is pretty simple, actually: to help people learn some of the principles I’ve learned that have changed my life and my work. It’s been such an exciting time for me, learning to change my habits, become more effective while leading a simpler and happier life … I just want to help others learn the same things! And when people tell me that I’ve helped them make positive changes in their lives, I’m incredibly gratified. Read the rest of this entry »

Happy New Year to all of you! Thanks for your readership in 2008 - I’ve really enjoyed continuing to develop Goodlife Zen and have appreciated your support and involvement.

As we start into 2009, I thought it might be good to look back and see what were the top 12 most popular posts published on Goodlife Zen this year:

1. 9 Ways to Develop Your Intelligence at Any Age

2. What Near Death Research Reveals About the Purpose of Life

3. Lifestyle Makeover: How to Simplify Your life in 5 Easy Steps

4. The Camel’s Back: How to Never Explode With Anger

5. Optimize Your Life with the SWOT Matrix

6. What is Natural Spirituality?

7. 10 Questions That Will Change Your Life: SWOT Analysis Part #2

8. Want to Make Friends and Feel Happier? Try Kindness!

9. Is there Life After Death?

10. How to Meditate: 10 Important Tips

11. Less Stress, More Productivity? How You Can Do It

12. Science and Meditation: Are Mystics just Having a Brain Wave?

I wish you all the very best for 2009. May you find ease and happiness! Let’s all be kinder to each other and bring peace to our little slice of the world.

Thank you for your companionship and support!
Mary
PS Looking at 2009, I’m most excited about the virtual Zen retreats I’ll be offering through Goodlife Zen. I’m happy to see so many people registering their interest! Participant numbers will be limited - so you might like to register interest soon. You can read more about virtual retreats here.

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I hope you are having a great Festive Season and are finding some time to relax and restore your energy. I want to thank you all for your support during this last year. Goodlife Zen is now one year old! I could not have survived the steep learning curve of learning to blog were it not for your encouragement and support.

The most wonderful thing about blogging is that it is a conversation. Your comments have widened and deepened my original themes in ways I never imagined. And they inspire me to write more. Thank you for participating! Congratulations to Claudio - he won the prize for best commenter in November and December and will receive the audio set of the Four Hour Workweek.

I’m looking forward to developing Goodlife Zen further in the coming year. There are a lot of interesting themes that I am itching to write about for you! Read the rest of this entry »