10 Tips for Mindful Work

Here are 10 general mindfulness exercises for when you are working. 1. Engage yourself in your work as if your job depends on it. 2. Become the best at what you do, not the best at gabbing around the office. 3. If you finish a project early, review your work and look for ways to [...]

Oh, Failure!: The Dalai Lama

Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, said, “The deep root of failure in our lives is to think, ‘Oh how useless and powerless I am.’ It is essential to think strongly and forcefully, ‘I can do it,’ without boasting or fretting.” What the Dalai Lama is calling for in this quotation is a recognition of [...]

10 Articles for Improving Your Mental Hygiene (Vol. 2.0)

Here are ten articles that I want to share with you. These articles deal with the following themes among other things: work, play, society, living, writing, poetry, language, effort, dance, spirituality, imagination, mindfulness, education and learning. I hope that you will find something of value. 1. Alan Watts: Work as Play 2. Georg Simmel: The [...]

The Gift of Being Sick

It is funny how “catching a cold” grounds me to the present moment by continually reminding me of my “unhealthy” physical condition. It is hard to move past the barrier of “pain” that being sick creates. In our healthy moments, the body disappears (for the most part), while under the condition of sickness, it becomes [...]

Mindful Absorption: Fluidity and Mindfulness

Carl Rogers talks about “the fluid nature of the self.” But, how does one achieve such an awareness of the fluid nature of the self? Aside from my recent article, I will expand on a few key elements to this most elusive yet ordinary way of living, hopefully, moving us toward a better understanding of [...]

20 Mindfulness Exercises for Improving Your Mental Hygiene

1. Become aware of your sitting, your clothes, the temperature and all that is “outside” of you now. 2. Imagine you are not separate from the ground, but a living happening of the world. (from Butoh) 3. Take a walk and open your ears to all of the sounds around you, experiencing them as they [...]

An Hour with Warren Bennis: Leadership Video (Harvard)

In this hour long video, Bennis address leadership, “the failings of a leader” and much more. The description of the video is: “Warren Bennis, chairman of the CPL advisory board and University Professor at USC, speaks to a capacity crowd about the development and future of leadership and leadership studies.”