| | | Into the Zone, Edition #64, December 2025 | | Habit stacking for 2026 | | In this edition: | | | Orchestrating your finances better with Zia | | | What's new! | | | App of the month | | | Quiz yourself | | | Habit stacking | | | In case you missed our webinars, here's a handpicked list | | | Businesses powered by Zoho One | | | Access our knowledge base for user and admin guides | | | Answer for the quiz | | | | | | Hello there, | | How is your new year so far? Got any interesting resolutions? If time management is on the list, then you must have heard of habit stacking. If you haven't, well... your life is about to change for good. Habit stacking is the art of focusing on your priorities, accepting your limits, and linking day-to-day acts that, over time, become habits. But how is it helpful in a business context, especially in terms of time management? Let's take a look at an average day in the life of a business owner. They're juggling time between tasks, meetings, delegating, and personal life; everything is going fine, even when the framework is skewed. So why is time management on a new year's resolution list? Read more... | |  | | | Orchestrating your finances better with AI |  | | You check your emails and reports every morning. What if, in that same motion, you could ask "Which invoices will be overdue in five days?" and get an answer and then act on it, immediately, without opening another tab? Zoho AI - Zia helps you achieve that, sharpening habit stacking with a bit of AI help. Along with Zia come anomaly detection that spots the spikes you'd miss. While forecasting shows what's coming. The invoicing agent flags the risks and drafts the emails. You stay in motion and your work becomes self-sufficient. Not because you're doing more, but because the tools have adapted to your business context. | | | | | | | App of the month! |  | | Your team scatters at the first December breeze and now you don't have the full capacity to handle the incoming sales. The holiday sales dip, the missed follow-ups, the cold leads by January—it's deja vu. But what if the problem wasn't the sales team but the lack of a system itself? That's where Zoho Marketing Automation comes in—it sends the nurture emails, scores the leads, moves prospects through the funnel even while you're away, because you built the sequence once and it remembers. This is habit-stacking at its own scale: the routines you'd run manually, now automated. Don't worry, you can still turn things around and return sales back to their original momentum. | | | | | | | | | How many Zoho One solution names have 'book' in them? | | Answer revealed at the end of the newsletter. | | | Habit stacking | | Why is time management still on resolution lists even if everything seems to be going fine? A better question is: when does time management become a skill to acquire? When there's a last-minute, unplanned item that needs your 100% attention and there's no routine in sight. That is when your critical time management is thrown into the spotlight. But at the base of time management is a routine, and what is a routine but a chain of incentivizing habits? Hence, the need for habit stacking. There is no possible combination or blueprint that is a perfect stack, for this requires individual decision-making and a reward system. But the next time you check your emails, you could also delete ten spam emails to free some space. After a meeting, ask for the recording and generate the minutes of meeting via Zoho Notebook, and instantly add them as tasks on Zoho Projects. Once you habit stack, you will be able to experience Zoho One to the fullest. | | | Here's a handpicked list of our recent webinars: | | | | | | Businesses powered
by Zoho One |  | | FF21 | | FF21 provides community living spaces to working professionals and new company recruits. They needed a connected system that could manage leads, tenant onboarding, billing cycles, service requests, and financial operations—all in real time. With Zoho CRM, Books, Desk, Sign, and Campaigns working together, FF21 streamlined every stage of the tenant lifecycle and built a scalable co-living business. | | | | | |  | | Plastic Bubbles | | Plastic Bubbles is a family-run packaging business that runs on Zoho One. By unifying processes their team found new clarity, speed, and connection. They use Zoho CRM, Desk, Social, People, and Campaigns. Along with the help of a partner–Infolytics, they were able to streamline workflows, strengthen customer touchpoints, and empower teams to work smarter. Watch their story here. | | | | | | Access our knowledge base for user and admin guides | | | |  | | | | Answer for the quiz – Zoho Bookings, Zoho Books, Zoho Notebook | | Until next time, Team Zoho One | | | | © 2026, Zoho Corporation Pvt.Ltd. All Rights Reserved. | | |
