April was a big month for Zen Habits — we turned three months old, and more than doubled our subscribers from 2,374 to over 5,000. Zen Habits also shot up in the Technorati rankings, from a ranking of about 31,000 to a ranking of under 7,000. Thank you, readers!
Here are the best posts in April:
- Turning Habits Into Goals
- Inbox Master: Get All Your Inboxes to Zero, and Have Fewer Inboxes
- Financial Zen: How to Get Financial Peace of Mind
- Edit Your Life Part 5: Your Wardrobe
- Calm as a Monk: How Equanimity Can Save Your Sanity
- Want to Gain Weight? Focus on Muscle-building, Not Calories
- The Secret Habit to Success
- Big Rocks First: Double Your Productivity This Week
- How to Get Your Credit Score Up, and How Not to Care
- Edit Your Life Part 6: a Media Fast
- Practical Tips to Being Present
- Top 50 Productivity Blogs (most of which you haven’t heard about)
- 50 Tips for Grocery Shopping
- Productivity Boost: Increase and Manage Your Energy
- Zen To Done (ZTD): The Ultimate Simple Productivity System
- Minimal ZTD: The Simplest System Possible
- How to Make Your Finances Automagical
- 6 Simple Steps to Make Mail & Paperwork Painless
- Cut Your Work Week to Get More Done
- Gradual Vegetarianism: the Easy Way to a Slim Waist
- Top 10 Ways to Reduce Your Work Week
- 10 Ways I Got 4,700 Subscribers in 3 Months
- Simple Way to Save $3,000 a Year: Brown Bag It
- How Complicating Your Life Makes Simplifying it Worthwhile
- 12 Ways to Decompress after High Stress
- Top 15 Diet Hacks
- How to Make Exercise a Daily Habit
Also, elsewhere, some guest posts I wrote in April:
- The Good Human: 12 Simple Habits to Help the Environment
- Consumerism Commentary: Gradual Frugality
- LifeDev: 5 Ways To Eliminate the Unnecessary and Focus On Your Dreams
- Scott H. Young: Do Less to Be More Productive
- Lifehack.org: Firefox OS: Why My Hard Drive and Software are Obsolete
- Lifehack.org: Getting Free of Google’s Grip: the 10 Top Alternatives
- Lifehack.org: How to Make Gmail/Gcal Rock Your Tasks
- Lifehack.org: 10 Tips from Lincoln on Writing a Kick-Ass Speech
- Lifehack.org: The Gentle Art of Saying No
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