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The Potential Project: Mindfulness at Work on Wednesday Evenings Starting April 2nd

CORPORATE BASED MINDFULNESS TRAINING (CBMT) Would you like to have more hours in a day? Or at least make better use of the precious time you have each and every day? Are you looking for opportunities to be more effective, calm, clear, and focused at work and at home? Are you interested in learning techniques to be more responsive and less reactive in everyday living? Mindfulness is a scientifically...

The Mindful Workplace – December 6 & 7, 2013

The 24/7 demands of business are leading to greater absenteeism, less effective decision making and lower employee engagement and productivity. While the hectic pace of business has been acceptable in the past, there is a growing need for a more mindful workplace. This workshop explores why mindfulness is critical to engagement, focus and productivity. Click here for further details or to register.  

Quotes of the Week

He conquers who endures.  ~Persius, Roman poet Fall seven times, stand up eight.  ~Japanese Proverb Difficult things take a long time, impossible things a little longer.  ~André A. Jackson, Business Executive Nobody trips over mountains.  It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble.  Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain.  ~Author Unknown Our greatest glory is not in never failing,...

Techniques for Clearing the Mind

Here are some techniques to clear your mind and calm the mental chatter. Write to Release. Reverse negative habits and mental patterns that threaten your productivity by engaging in free form writing, at least once a day for 30 days. Grab your pencil and paper and sit in a quiet private area where you won’t be interrupted. Close your eyes and take three deep breaths before you start writing....

Inside Inspiration

Staying inspired at work can be, to put it slightly, trying. Perhaps we’ve had a slow week or month ,maybe we’ve been working on the same tasks for some time. Whatever the case, it doesn’t mean werenot good or committed to what we do, we might just need a little boost. Though the quick response isoften to look to your management for inspiration, there are things we can do individually...

The Importance of Focus Part 2

Recapping on our previous post, The Importance of Focus, focus is extremely important to our productivity and distractions can be extremely costly. Here are some tips to help restore your focus: Concentrate on one thing at a time. Multitasking means you give a task only part of your concentration which results in poor quality work. A University of Michigan cognitive scientist, David E. Meyer, said “Multitasking is going to...

The Importance of Focus

Image courtesy of Jeroen van Oostrom/FreeDigitalPhotos.net Why are we so prone to distractions? The amount of information we now process is greater than ever before. The Sunday New York Times  contains more information than the average 18th century European learned in his lifetime. (David Rock, Beat Back Distractions: The Neuroscience of Getting Things Done) New technologies and applications distract us easily. Think of how much time you can spend...