About

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.”
Aristotle

My name is Leo Babauta, I’m married with six kids, I live on Guam, I’m a writer and a runner and a vegetarian and I love writing Zen Habits.

Zen Habits is one of the top blogs on the Internet, and covers: achieving goals, productivity, being organized, GTD, motivation, eliminating debt, saving, getting a flat stomach, eating healthy, simplifying, living frugal, parenting, happiness, and successfully implementing good habits.

Read more: My Story | Why Zen Habits

Start here: The Beginner’s Guide to Zen Habits - A Guided Tour

Contact Info

Due to the high amount of email I’ve been receiving, and due to my need to have a life and spend time with my family, I ask that you adhere to the following procedures for contacting me:

1. Thank yous and feedback. If you’d just like to say thank you or give me some feedback about this site (positive or negative), please don’t email me … leave a comment on this page.

2. Guest posts. Due to a large amount of guest post submissions, I am no longer accepting guest posts at the moment. I have a large backlog of guest posts that have been submitted, and I only run one per week. In the future, guest posts will be done by invitation only. Please don’t email me with a request to do a guest post! I apologize for this, but I hope you understand it’s something I’ve had to do.

3. Questions and post topic suggestions. I get a lot of emails asking questions about life situations … as well as suggestions for posts. While these are greatly appreciated, I simply am not able to keep up with these questions and suggestions. Please submit questions and suggestions for post topics here.

4. Your blog posts. If you have a blog post you think is really great and you’d like to share it with Zen Habits readers, please don’t email it to me. Instead, I’d appreciate it if you could bookmark it in del.icio.us, and tag it “for:zenhabits” (without the quotes). If it’s tagged with this, it will show up in my “links for you” page, and I will see it. If it’s something I’d like to share with my readers, I will share it on my tumblelog.

If you send me your post link via email, it will be deleted. Sorry, but again, I have to take these steps to make my life manageable.

5. Promoting your product/service/site. I get a lot of email like this. Please don’t send me anything like this. I do not promote products, services, or websites. If you send me an email like this, it will be marked “spam”. Instead, consider advertising on Zen Habits.

If you would like to contact me about something other than one of the five items above … and please read them carefully … you can email me at zenhabits at the gmail.

Remember, if you send me an email for any of the 5 things above, it will most likely be deleted, or I will send you a link to this page. Thanks for your understanding!