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Zen to Done by Leo Babauta

Has anyone read this book?  I'm wondering if it's worth buying or if it's just a rehash of blog posts.  I love the Zen Habits blog. 

Journey

Liked it, but takes discipline

I have read this book, and I thought it had some very practical advice.
As has already been said, he recommends learning one new habit each month, 12 in total, so that you change your life in a year. 
I just had the feeling that all of the techniques together were rather meant for people who work from home (like Leo Babauta himself, I suppose) or have pretty flexible jobs. Still, it looks like I can use a lot of it (I am in month three now) in my student life as well.
The only problem I see, is that it does take discipline and willingness, which I as chronic procrastinator do not always have. Leo Babautas Advice for procrastinators is to 'sit down and do it, even if you don't feel like it and to let the negative feelings go by.'
(I don't know if thats in the book or on the zenhabits-blog, a good website by the way.) Still I don't think that the book is meant for chronic procrastinators especially. 
My trick is, to write down each new method on a sticky note and put it visibly on my workplace and combining it with other tools. (Only checking your inboxes once a day, for example, was hard to do for me, so I put all my mailboxes on leech-block with a maximum of one hour for all before they were blocked.)
 
 
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or
perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)

I bought the book

I couldn't wait . . . I've read the first chapter.  There's not really anything new, it's based on GTD but it's simpler and includes stuff about prioritizing and developing habits. 

I've used GTD for a while but I get overwhelmed and my systems get out of control and then they are useless.  Leo recommends developing one or two new habits each 30 days . . .so for the next 30 days I commit to:

collecting everything in Action Outline
setting MITs daily

Journey

“There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want.” - Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes

ZTD - 2nd 30 days

I've been following the ZTD program.  Leo recommends building one or two new habits per month.  the first month I worked on 1)collecting and 2) setting MITs for the day. 

I still need more practice on MITs so I'm continuing to focus on them this month, but I think I'm successfully collecting all my to-dos and inbox items.  The next habit to build is processing all the input - or keeping the pile under control. 

So, 2nd 30 day ZTD habits:
Setting MITs each day
Processing all inboxes to empty every day

J

“The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.” - Stephen Covey

establishing new habits

Journey, how has the month gone: are some days harder than others? What has been your motivation for staying on track?

Try this

Hi Journey

Thought I'd recommend a book. It is the one I have been reading called, "Ordering Your Private World" by Gordon MacDonald. Here is a guy whose life fell apart and he had to re-build it. I like the first chapter in particular called "The sinkhole syndrome".

Don't know about anyone else, but i really need to read tings that are ot in the teoretical, but things that others have done that actually work. I'll try reading the one you're reading next!

Douglas

Ordering your private world

Sounds interesting.  Perhaps I will add that book to the pile!  

Journey

 
“There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want.” - Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes