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One website that’s been a great practical help to me – both in my life in general as well as with my online business is Zenhabits.net.

Zenhabits.net is one site that I can definitely recommend you pay a visit (apart from BreakingOut.NET of course).

It’s a .net site too, not one of your common-or-garden .com’s, so it must have a touch of class – like BreakingOut.NET!

Zenhabits.net is a blog website about simplifying your life and following the practice of what is called “minimalism”. The site is run by Leo Babauta, who wrote a book called “The Power of Less”. There’s more about his book at the end of this article.

Zenhabits is intended as a practical guide to “clearing out the clutter”, simplifying your life down to the essentials so you can concentrate on what really matters.

I guess you could say the concept of minimalism is a product of the affluent and complicated stressed up lives we in in the West tend to live. Life has been becoming more and more consumer-oriented, more busy and more complicated for us and with no let up in sight.

Zenhabits aims to show you a way out of this cluttered and stressed up lifestyle.

In keeping with the ideals of Zenhabits, the site itself has now been simplified and minimalized. It might seem a bit threadbare and lacking in “eye-candy” when you visit – but as Leo explains, this is deliberate. It’s the message that’s important and not the wrapping.

Zenhabits has become a very popular blog now with some 200,000 readers worldwide. It was also named one of the world’s top 25 blogs by Time magazine.

I’ve found Zenhabits very useful in showing me the way in re-ordering my life over these last few years. The site covers articles on themes such as simplicity and minimalism, health & fitness, motivation and inspiration, family life, happiness, goal setting and getting things done.

Leo Babauta is the author of an E-book called “The Simple Guide to a Minimalist Life” - a series of articles on making your life simpler, on becoming happier, and on getting more productive.