{"id":245,"date":"2010-10-26T15:56:20","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T19:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/?p=245"},"modified":"2023-10-07T11:34:48","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T15:34:48","slug":"zen-habits-smile-breathe-and-go-slowly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/2010\/10\/zen-habits-smile-breathe-and-go-slowly\/","title":{"rendered":"Zen Habits Blog; Smile, Breathe and go Slowly"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_261\" style=\"width: 233px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-261\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/2010\/10\/zen-habits-smile-breathe-and-go-slowly\/sp32-20101026-160057\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-261\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-261\" title=\"Zen Habits Blog Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/SP32-20101026-160057.png\" alt=\"Zen Habits Blog Logo\" width=\"223\" height=\"73\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/SP32-20101026-160057.png 372w, http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/SP32-20101026-160057-300x97.png 300w, http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/SP32-20101026-160057-150x48.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-261\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smile, breathe and go slowly<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I have been following the Zen Habits blog for some time now, and I believe you should too. The blog focuses on these core concepts: simplicity, health &amp; fitness,  motivation and inspiration,  frugality, family life, happiness, goals,  getting great things done,  and living in the moment.<\/p>\n<p>Leo Babauta, the creator and writer of <a href=\"http:\/\/zenhabits.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zen Habits<\/a> had this to say on the About Us Page of his blog:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Zen Habits is about finding simplicity in the daily chaos of our  lives. It\u2019s about clearing the clutter so we can focus on what\u2019s  important, create something amazing, find happiness.<\/p>\n<p>It also happens to be one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/specials\/packages\/article\/0,28804,1999770_1999761,00.html\">Top 25 blogs<\/a> in the world, with about 200,000 readers, is <a href=\"http:\/\/zenhabits.net\/2008\/01\/open-source-blogging-feel-free-to-steal-my-content\/\">uncopyrighted<\/a>,  and goes well with anything chocolate. Zen Habits features three  powerful articles a week on: simplicity, health &amp; fitness,  motivation and inspiration, frugality, family life, happiness, goals,  getting great things done, and living in the moment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A great place to start is here: <a href=\"http:\/\/zenhabits.net\/start\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Beginner\u2019s Guide to Zen Habits \u2013 A Guided Tour<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Or you can download his new book, <a href=\"http:\/\/focusmanifesto.s3.amazonaws.com\/FocusFree.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FOCUS, a simplicity manifesto in the age of distractions.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Enjoy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been following the Zen Habits blog for some time now, and I believe you should too. The blog focuses on these core concepts: simplicity, health &amp; fitness, motivation and inspiration, frugality, family life, happiness, goals, getting great things done, and living in the moment. Leo Babauta, the creator and writer of Zen Habits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[178,382,381],"tags":[148,139,144,141,147,146,145,143,140,142,138,137],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1371,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions\/1371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}