The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them.”
Harold S. Geneen

My name is Richard Austin, I’m married with 2 kids — one beautiful little boy and a 12 pound dachshund named Oscar, I live in Utah, I’m a writer, a part-time cowboy and a designer; and I love working on Cheerfulliving.

Cheerfulliving is soon to be one of the top blogs on the Internet, and covers: reaching dreams, productivity, getting organized, the power of positivity, motivation, eliminating debt, saving, exercising, eating healthy, simplifying, living on less, parenting, happiness, and successfully implementing habits of cheerfulness.

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. I am happily accepting guest posts at the moment. Feel free to email me with a request to do a guest post! cheerfulliving[at]gmail[dot]com

3. 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:cheerfulliving” (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.

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.

4. 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 Cheerfulliving.

If you would like to contact me about something other than one of the four items above … and please read them carefully … you can email me at cheerfulliving[at]gmail[dot]com.

Remember, if you send me an email for any of the 4 things above, it will most likely be deleted, or I will send you a link to this page. Thanks for your understanding!