Job Search Resentment: A Reminder to Stay Mindful
When we spend months on the hunt for a job it’s easy for job search resentment to set in. Here’s how to keep it at bay and what we can learn from it.
How to Be Mindful in Motion
Mindfulness is described as being present in the moment. Too many moments are in motion thought. Being mindful in motion creates space.
How to Be a Mindful Strategist
Being a mindful strategist creates the next advantage for your business and organization. Mindful practices heighten our attention in the right places.
How to Be Selective in a Jam-Packed World
Being selective sounds bad. By being selective, it seems: We are narrowing our intake that may limit our creativity. We are avoiding certain situations and living in an unrealistic bubble. We are snobbish or aloof in our interactions and relationships. A danger exists in being selective. Equally dangerous is avoiding selectivity and joining just about…
My Love/Hate Relationship with Repetition
Repetition has a bad rap. It’s not hard to see why. If your childhood was like my childhood, at some point you had to write lines as a form of punishment. There were more than a few afternoons spent writing, “I will not hit my brother,” one hundred times, or longer depending on the severity…
Want a Different Outcome? Take a Mindful Minute
I am the definition of a planner. Every week, between home, school and everything else in between I spend hours just planning things literally because I can and because my mind just goes there. Some people call it daydreaming. I prefer to think of it as considering possibilities. I get a thrill from the anticipation…
Stop Distractions from Stealing Your Joy
When I look back, my wedding day is a blur. I definitely remember the excitement and gravity of reciting my vows at the church. I remember looking into my husband’s eyes and hearing him promise to stand by my side for the remainder of our lives. I remember actually getting married. The rest of day,…
How Mindfulness Shapes Effective Strategic Leadership
Strategy provides the clarity for any organization. Even though this is true, many struggle with defining a strategy and gaining momentum around it. Ignoring strategy or floundering on the pursuit of one is no fun. The lack of a strategy weighs on the business culture and many of the team initiatives that try to gain…
Two Tricks to Improve Focus
Guest Post by Max Cron Centering oneself and finding balance in the hectic workday can be a lifelong task, or can it? With the right guidance, it is possible for even the busiest, most fast paced workers to become more focused on what they are doing and less distracted. Most people have some difficulty focusing….
Life Is About Momentum, Not Motions
“Going through the motions…” It is a phrase we hear maybe too often. It seems to mean we are just moving through activities without much thought or meaning. It may be like sleepwalking through a job or zoning out at home. Going through the motions is not a positive indication of living a life fully…