Work & Career

You spend a huge chunk of your life working. Mindfulness can make that time more focused, less draining, and more meaningful - whether you're dealing with a difficult boss, a packed calendar, or a career crossroads.
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Focus & Attention
Athletes Can’t Get By on Grit Alone 

It takes more than dogged persistence and a combative mindset to hit peak performance. If the game is 90 percent mental and emotional, then mindfulness has a role to play in getting athletes prepped for their best. Read More 

  • Jason Dorland
  • July 13, 2016
Focus & Attention
Manage Your Attention, Not Your Time 

With so many stimuli competing for attention, any hope for making it through the day without our brains feeling like scrambled eggs rests on being more conscious of how you parse attention over specific tasks. Here are three ways to keep your focus flowing. Read More 

  • Jeremy Hunter
  • July 5, 2016
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Mindfulness For
Is “Office” a State of Mind? 

The rise of tech has turned “office” into a mindset rather than a physical place for many modern workers. In the midst of this increased flexibility, here’s how you can bring some stability to your worklife. Read More 

  • Jae Ellard
  • June 22, 2016
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Focus & Attention
How to Curb Self-Defeating Habits 

Explore these five mindfulness practices to help you uncover and untangle from the feedback loop of negative thought patterns. Read More 

  • Dawa Tarchin Phillips
  • June 15, 2016
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Focus & Attention
Driving to Distraction 

At any given daylight moment, as many as 660,000 American drivers are using electronic devices. Twenty-three percent of all auto collisions involve mobile phones. Distracted drivers not only make for frightening statistics, author Jeff Greenwald asserts that they have become the mindful driving challenge du jour: How to cope with drivers so mindless that they are willing to put their lives—and others—at risk. Read More 

  • Jeff Greenwald
  • June 10, 2016
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