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Mindfulness and self-awareness are age-old practices that can change your career or business.  As an executive, you have so many competing priorities, work and life decisions and choices... at times is seems like a lot of noise.

I'm here to share a habit I began in the summer of 2012 that has made a big impact in my life and that of my clients... MEDITATION!  Now if you are thinking, "I can barely sit still for 5 minutes much less have a calm, quiet mind" you are speaking my language!  I had the same thoughts and resistance for years.

THEN... I found Headspace.

FINALLY!  An answer even for overactive minds like mine and yours! 

Read on for a free offer for a 15-minute call to get a dose of bravery and awareness from Gail, your Chief Obstacle Buster and executive career coach!

 

Reduce overwhelm. Uncover hidden opportunities!

Would you like to reduce overwhelm and stress? Boost your emotional fitness?  Uncover hidden opportunities? Try this mindfulness habit.

I believe it is vital that we take moments away from the pressures of daily living.  Stopping to B R E A T H E for even 2 minutes helps you:

• improve performance
• reduce stress
• be more resilient
• reduce overwhelm
• boost your emotional fitness and
• be present and discover hidden opportunities and better solutions in your work and life

We need to be more mindful, more accepting, more forgiving and more present! Try this experiment to take you beyond what your mind can do. Bring in the intuition and answers from your physical being and your spirit.  Taking a break from your TO DO list may seem counter-intuitive yet it is THE answer!

Here is a tool to help you be more mindful and refreshed in as little as 2 minutes!

1. Go to http://www.donothingfor2minutes.com/
2. Take 5 deep breaths (try a 5-10 count inhale and exhale) to take you out of your head and into your body
3. Let go of whatever came before this moment
4. Set aside whatever is calling to you do DO, DO, DO and instead
   be quiet and listen to the sounds of the ocean and
   BE, BE, BE
5. Email me the benefits you experience after even just one visit with the ocean and your Self. If you like this experience, set a timer in your phone to repeat this and make it a practice for at least one daily mindfulness break!

To read more about the scientific proof of the power of meditation, go to this link to read an article about meditation at work.  For a guided 10-minute meditation, listen to an Inspired Choice recording here!

Guided Introduction to Meditation with Gail

Just for you!

In my work as a mindfulness coach and habit change coach, I am teaching and practicing the art of meditation as a total beginner.  There is huge value even in 5 minutes from the stillness, quiet and solitude.  If you are an overactive thinker, like me, have no fear.  Even you can get benefit from doing your best to quiet your mind.

This practice can increase your calm, tune up the volume on your intuition, and help you recalibrate your energy.  This is GREAT for reducing the frenzy, flailing and overwhelm.  Get re-centered and grounded.  Bring yourself back to what really matters and make an inspired choice about what actions are best for you after you meditate.

Below is a recording with my voice leading you from start to finish in a meditation. 

Website Offering a Mindfulness Bell

Here's a a tool to help you create moments of stillness or Being Breaks.  You can use this tool on-the-job or at home.

Take 5 minutes to close your eyes and meditate or at least clear your mind and relax. To help you create a start and end signal, use the mindfulness bell on the following website. The bell will help calm you with it's reverberations and you can relax knowing that you will not drift off into a state of endless relaxation (or sleep, if you are not getting enough sleep).

Another great use for this bell is to set the timer for the short or long bell to any time length you wish and set it to repeat.  I use this during projects that cause me to procrastinate or get tense.  The bell helps me mark time, stay calm and make sure I'm on task.  It raises your awareness.

See what uses you come up with!  Email me at [email protected] with your ideas.

http://www.mindfulnessdc.org/bell/index.html

Tips to stop the frenzy and dis-ease of too much DOING

The Symptoms. You just returned from vacation and there is SO much work to do so you immediately re-engage your good 'ole multi-tasking behavior and your vacation is a dim memory 2 days later. ***  You spent and extra 30 minutes with your 5-yeard-old before leaving for work and now you feel you are behind and will be trying to catch up all day. *** You decided to help someone in the office or at home with a special project instead of doing a To Do list item so now you are beating yourself up and trying to be Super Hero to still get it all done!

Sound familiar? It happens to me. Learn what this behavior costs you and some tips that have helped me and my clients.  See the small steps I recommend below so you can immediately break this cycle and begin a new habit.  Learn how to achieve more mindfulness, inner peace, purpose and mission-driven action which results in increased efficiency, better solutions, and JOY.