Habit Nest Blog

“If you always put a limit on everything you do, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them."

Every entrepreneur knows what it feels like to have a mind that moves at a million miles an hour with a never-ending to-do list, and a lack of time to get everything done.

“A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.” - Frank Zappa

Most of us TALK about the things we want in life. Very few of us actually SET ascertainable goals. Fewer PURSUE those goals, & a minuscule amount come anywhere close to ACHIEVING those goals.

To put it simply, without new material for our brains to process, our brains repeat the same patterns throughout the course of our lives. We in effect, stop learning and growing.

"A ship in harbor is safe – but that is not what ships are built for." - John A. Shedd

“We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.” -
Frederick Keonig

"Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.”
– Malcolm S. Forbes

To-do lists seem pretty straight forward. What I’ve found is that in order to make a truly effective to-do list, you have to think about why you’re doing it and plan accordingly.

10 Categories, 10 books in each, not in any specific order.

1. Biographies
2. Career & Financial Success
3. Communication & Relationships
4. Entrepreneurship
5. Growth Through Habits
6. Love & Happiness
7. History
8. Health & Wellness
9. Philosophy & Spirituality
10. Fiction

In the end of the day, every single one of us wants the same thing – fulfillment. A good life in which we get to enjoy this experience of living with love, appreciation, gratitude, comfort and joy. Here's what a 75-year study says is the key ingredient.

“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one learned in school.” – Albert Einstein

"What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.”– Dwight D. Eisenhower

Without ever suspecting it, we have been told how and what to think, feel, strive for and dream about our entire lives. Here's the way out of this cycle of conformism.

High Intensity Interval Training is the best way to burn fat. Here's why.

Every new email notification that pops up on your screen interrupts your focus - even if you don’t even open it.

A complete guide to understanding the factors that determine your progress, all around muscle development, and insight into what a good training program looks like.

Whether you have a naturally athletic build, a figure that’s curvaceous, or one that’s willowy, there’s good news:

You can develop most of the physical attributes you’ve always wanted but didn’t get from Mother Nature or your gene pool.

It's been a utilized body-building theory for decades, but increasing research to determine its validity has made what was previously just a theory, a crucially important aspect of weight lifting results.

More than 20 experts' best tips on procrastination & creating positive self-change.

You don't have to go fast, you just have to go.

Every moment of our lives, we are 'practicing' something.

If we began practicing living our ideal lives, what would need to change?

We’re now just beginning to grasp why and how meditation has such a profound impact in our lives through analyzing the physical structure of the brain. Here's what we've found.

"The difference between rising at five and seven o’clock in the morning, for forty years, supposing a man to go to bed at the same hour at night, is nearly equivalent to the addition of ten years to a man’s life.”- Philip Doddridge

Happiness is a feeling that is experienced, not an idea to be analyzed.

Unless I feel it, I don't really know what it is in the moment.

There are, however, some principles that I can regularly keep in mind to help stabilize my experience of my life through understanding.

Scientists have coined our guts our "second brains" because of how interlinked gut health and brain health are.

A discussion of the relationship between gratitude & happiness, and how to begin a practice of gratitude.

We asked more than 80 of the top experts for their most effective weight-loss and healthy eating strategies. This 30,000 words is filled with only the most insightful things they had to say.

“The problem, simply put, is that we cannot choose everything simultaneously. So we live in danger of becoming paralyzed by indecision, terrified that every choice might be the wrong choice.”


- Elizabeth Gilbert

"The starting place for your greatness is desire. The desire to succeed, to serve others, to keep on going no matter what…”
– Assegid Habtewold

"If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.”
- Maya Angelou

It seems like every other day we hear about a new diet – from Atkins to Paleo, from high-carb to low-carb, high-fat to low-fat, it seems like there is major support for every possible ‘healthy eating’ structure there’s a celebrity endorsement for. What's the truth about paleo?

Misplaced attention can distort our reality. In order to realize the potential strength our attention contains, we have to work it consistently with a direct aim in mind.

We all know what it feels like not to have gotten enough sleep. We get groggy, our brains don’t seem to work properly, our bodies are sluggish, and we become irritable. We know very well that we need it, but why?

"Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself" - Pat Conroy

Being a minimalist is about adopting a mindset of intentional living. A mindset is something we experience internally, but what we do and how we behave in life is a direct result of our current state of mind.

When it comes to working effectively, maintaining mental clarity is obviously a huge component. But what about your external work space? Does it really matter whether your physical work space is cluttered or isn’t set up to maximize work output?

Inspiration is the process of being mentally and/or emotionally stimulated to act in a certain way. When we become inspired we feel a strong need or desire to act. We know when we’re inspired because we feel alive; we feel motivated.

“When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.”
– Winston Churchill

I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to just “get through” my days. I want to own every day with enthusiasm and zeal. I want to have the best day of my life every single day.

That awful moment when you hear the sound of your alarm at 8:00 a.m. and the dreadful feeling of *actually* having stuff to do casts its veil over your entire world. Ugh, it’s *Monday*.

What does this commandment, this truth, really mean? How can we learn to fulfill it in our every day lives to enhance the quality of both the world around us, and our own experience in it?

No time? No equipment? No money for a gym membership? No problem. There are a number of different daily workout routines you can do anytime, any place to get the toned, fit look we all crave. The only things you need are a body, either a towel or t-shirt, and a timer.

Positivity, happiness, gratitude, and love aren’t accidents. They don’t come from external things, places, or other people. In each successive moment we  have the opportunity to make a choice about the quality of attention and emotion we’d like to bring.

Time can either be your greatest enemy or your most trustworthy companion. It all boils down to the way we approach it, and whether we’re willing to treat it with the love and respect it deserves to allow a wonderful relationship with it to grow.

This notion of “putting things off” permeates our lives constantly, whether we identify as procrastinators or not. Each of us has certain activities, tasks, or areas of our lives that we procrastinate with.The questions we all need to face are, why, and how can I stop?

If you’re feeling great physically, are able to withstand difficult emotions and mental drainage, you are giving yourself the energy and space that you need to be a creative, problem-solving individual on a pathway to success.

If you take a step back and evaluate everything you do – there is some connection to the receiving or giving of love at the root of it. It is what drives us. It is what satisfies us. It is of the most basic human strivings.