By Leo Babauta

While some of you have been following Zen Habits since its early days (beginning of 2007), many of you are fairly new readers.

To help you through the fairly overwhelming archives, I’ve compiled a beginner’s guide. Kind of a Quick Start guide.

First, a note: Please don’t try to go through this all at once. There are days and days worth of reading here. I’ve just organized that so that you can go to the stuff you want to learn about first.

Take it in small chunks.

Where do you start when you have a thousand posts to read through? You start with the best, or at least the most popular.

So here they are:

The All-Time Most Popular Posts on Zen Habits

Or you can go through a few compiled guides I’ve hand picked for some of the more popular categories:

By now, you might want to know more about Leo, the guy who writes this blog … well, here’s more than you ever wanted to know: