7 Things You Can Do Today to Prepare for Retirement

Photo by pedrosimoes7 By Leo Babauta Confession time: I didn’t start planning my retirement when I was young. I didn’t give it much thought, because when you’re in your 20s, retirement seems like something you can worry about much later. Sure, you hear advice about how it’s much better to start early, and compound interest and all […]

How I save money

By Leo Babauta I think I’m a fairly frugal person. I haven’t always been this way, and it’s taken years of simplifying and cutting back on little things, one at a time. And while there are definitely many more things I can scrimp and save on, I’m proud of how far I’ve come already. Here’s how […]

How to Get Financial Peace of Mind

It’s a fact: our finances are one of the things in our lives that stress us out the most. If we’re trying for a stress-free life — with stress-free productivity, working and living environments, waking early, morning routines and the like — then we need to address our finances and find routines that will keep the […]

My advice for starting a business

By Leo Babauta Recently I encouraged my 13-year-old daughter Maia to start a vegan cupcake business, and it’s so exciting to watch her get started. As I talked to her about starting, she had some worries: She didn’t know how. She didn’t know what kind of business to create. She was worried she’d fail. Do any […]

How do I conduct mu business

By Leo Babauta I started my own business at a late age — by the time I made Zen Habits into a business in 2007, I was in my mid-30s and had toiled through various jobs for 17 years. So when I started out, I didn’t know what I was doing (and still don’t, but less […]

The Magic of a Fresh Start

BY LEO BABAUTA One of the biggest obstacles to sticking with a habit change, a new system, a goal or long-term project … is that we get disrupted. Something interrupts our progress — we skip a workout day or two — and then some programming in our brains turns that into a message of how we’re […]