How’s this Friday find you? Grateful for friends, family, friends-who-are-family, full bellies and the gift of modern over-the-counter pharmaceuticals for turkey (or other) hangovers? I’m checking a few of those boxes myself this morning, so my heart is full…and so is my coffee mug. This week, our focus was – not surprisingly – on gratitude, […]
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This week we got into indecision, and the challenges that often come with with our efforts to make decisions that “make sense” but also make us happy. In my experience, the struggle of those moments is often marked by one critical, missing ingredient: intuition. More often than not, tough decisions are about the push-pull of
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I didn’t used to be a very good decision maker. I spent a lot of time weighing the pros and cons of different options, and somehow would still come away seeing how they all could work. What makes this especially ironic is that my job for over a decade was largely about making decisions, and
Today’s post is a little less about mindfulness, but exactly what I feel needs to be said. Thanks for giving me the space to say it. As I wake up, I realize that this morning, I find myself leaning on many of the same fundamental beliefs I did 15 years ago last September: Good always finds a
Our topic this week was habits – specifically, the kind you don’t necessarily know you have. I mean, you probably know if you bite your nails, or have a tendency to interrupt people, or have a knack for using colorful language in the wrong settings (it’s just too perfectly descriptive sometimes, you know??). But, you
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Do you have any habits that you’re proud of? Anything that you’ve worked hard to establish as a regular part of your daily or weekly routine? Maybe you work out, floss, call your mom, or say please and thank you every day. Perhaps you even have a nice thing going with a regular mindfulness practice
So far this week, we’ve done a lot of thinking about thinking, which is pretty ironic for a blog that’s about mindfulness, a practice in which you learn to observe your thoughts more than engage with them. But alas, all that observing will eventually get you thinking, and ultimately, I think that’s a good thing
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There’s a lot of wisdom out there in the world about how it’s hard to see what you’re not looking for, and the importance of the eye of the beholder, etc. I give those ideas some time because I think there’s something to them, especially in a world where big data is constantly trying to
Is it me, or has it been a little heavy around here lately? From goals, to personal mission, meaningful work, and even social injustice, we’ve been doing some deep-end diving around here. This week in particular, we talked about the ways in which mindfulness is being incorporated into the training of future global business leaders
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What better day than a Monday for a reminder of the power of perspective and mindset in framing situations. When we allow our thoughts and emotions to sweep us away into narratives about what we think other people are thinking, or what could happen, or what it all “really” means, we end up responding to our imagination more than
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