Eight Liberating Strategies for Clearing the Queues in Your Life

Our lives are filled with queues, from email inboxes to your to-do lists to voice and text messages to a variety of different inboxes in social networks. For many people, managing all these queues is stressful, never-ending, and complex. Let’s look at how to simplify things, how to clear your queues, and how to let go of the stress of managing them all.

Babauta, Leo. Zen Habits (2009). Articles>Project Management

The Minimalist Principle: Omit Needless Things

Minimalism is something people might strive for, but they don’t know where to start.

Babauta, Leo. Zen Habits (2009). Articles>Writing>Minimalism

The Culture of Sharing: Why Releasing Copyright Will Be the Smartest Thing You Do 

A large number of us want people to be able to share ideas and communicate freely, without legal restrictions. And I’d go even further: we like it when creative people freely share their work with us, and allow us to use their work (or derivatives of it) in our own work. This is the Culture of Sharing that is growing on the Internet.

Babauta, Leo. Write to Done (2009). Articles>Intellectual Property>Copyright>Writing

Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway (or, the Privatization of the English Language) 

I find it unbelievable that a common phrase (that was used way before it was the title of any book) can be trademarked. We’re not talking about the names of products … we’re talking about the English language. You know, the words many of us use for such things as … talking, and writing, and general communication? Perhaps I’m a little behind the times, but is it really possible to claim whole chunks of the language, and force people to get permission to use the language, just in everyday speech?

Babauta, Leo. Zen Habits (2009). Articles>Intellectual Property>Trademark>Writing

Shattering the Myth of Blog Niches: How to Grow a Huge Readership 

One of the most common pieces of advice for bloggers is to find a niche that you can dominate — the smaller the niche, the better, because all of the bigger niches are already dominated by bigger blogs. This advice is fine if you’re trying to sell a product to a specific group of potential customers, but if you’re trying to grow a blog with as big a readership as possible, I think niche blogging is dead wrong.

Babauta, Leo. Write to Done (2009). Articles>Writing>Online>Blogging