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Essays on attention, burnout, meditation and the modern mind.

  1. AnxietyBurnoutStress Martini Pose: The Most Relaxing Thing You've Never Heard Of Ever struggle to be present at the end of the work day? Don't we all? Try out a daily martini pose as an antidote.
  2. EnergyMindfulnessProductivityStress You’re Upper Limiting (and You Don't Even Know It) Do you ever notice a strange tendency in yourself to think things are going to go bad just as they're getting good. That's an upper limit.
  3. AnxietyMindfulnessPersonalStress Use These 4 Tools to Stop Being Busy Explore four powerful tools for cultivating a new mindset of space instead of busyness.
  4. MeditationPsychedelics Non-Drug Psychedelic Experience <br>(i.e. Psychedelics Without the Drugs) Explore three powerful tools for cultivating micro-moments of non-drug psychedelic experience in your everyday life.
  5. FocusMindfulness How to Create More Space in Your Mind Explore three powerful tools for creating more space (not in your calendar) but in your mind.
  6. FocusMemoryProductivity Want to Enhance Your Memory? Stanford Study Says Stop Doing This 1 Thing Researchers find that spending less time multitasking may be the key to improving cognitive performance and memory.
  7. FocusMeditationProductivity Don't Have Time to Meditate? Try Micro-Dosing Mindfulness (Here's How) Scientists reveal that you don't need to meditate for long periods of time to experience benefit. Even a few minutes develops focus and your ability to get things done.
  8. EnergyFocusProductivity 4 Techniques VC Brad Feld Uses to Build Resilience and Mindfulness in Entrepreneurship One of the world's leading VCs reveals his strategies for navigating the chaos of startup life.
  9. AnxietyFocusMeditationProductivity The Neuroscience of Shifting From Negative to Positive Thinking You brain is wired to focus on the negative. Here's how to build a new, more positive, mindset anytime, anywhere.
  10. AnxietyBurnoutPersonal The Upside of Burnout: How to Turn it From Problem to Opportunity This article explore the unexpected upside of burnout and how to use it as a tool for personal growth.
  11. EnergyFocusProductivity Why 'Completion Addiction' Might be Your Biggest Barrier to More Productive Work This article offers an analysis of our addiction to completion as well as tips and strategies for how to overcome it and be more productive.
  12. BurnoutEnergyFocusProductivity Overwhelmed by Your Inbox? You Might be Experiencing 'Email Apnea'
  13. EnergyProductivity Experiencing Death by Meeting? Try This 60-Second Technique to Bring Meetings Back to Life Use this arrival practice to improve the quality and engagement of meetings at work.
  14. BurnoutEnergyMindfulness The Modern Mind is Distracted, Stressed, and Overwhelmed: Here's How to Relax This article outlines several techniques for finding relaxation in the modern age where we are bombarded by the distractions of social media and smartphones.
  15. FocusMindfulnessNotice, Shift, Rewire Want to Know the Real Reason You're So Distracted? Harvard Scientists Have the Answer This article outlines the research of Harvard psychologists Daniel Gilbert and Matthew Killingsworth on "mind wandering" -- our tendency to get lost in thoughts about the past and future.
  16. EnergyFocusProductivity Ecstatic Emailing: Turn Your Inbox From Torture to Bliss An article about how to transform the experience of email by shifting toward mindfulness
  17. AnxietyMindfulness The Art of Working With – Not Against – Fear and Anxiety An article about the practice of accepting fear, anxiety, and worry through allowing it to move through the mind and body.
  18. AnxietyBurnoutEnergyProductivity Yoga Nidra: Supercharge Your Energy With This Power Nap On Steroids An article exploring the benefits of yoga nidra - an ancient mindfulness practice with a long list of scientifically validated benefits.
  19. FocusMindfulnessProductivity Is There A Cure For Social Media Mind? An article about the challenges that Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and other social media platforms pose to mental health and wellbeing.
  20. FocusMindfulnessProductivity The Cost of Time - How Much Would You Pay to Have More Time? An article about the true cost of time that draws on Henry David Thoreau's seminal essay "Life Without Principle"
  21. AnxietyEnergyPersonal The Urge to Be Somebody - Why We Suffer at Work An article exploring the suffering created by our desire to be somebody special, especially at work.
  22. EnergyFocusProductivity How to Work Like an Olympian With 24-Hour Sprint and Recover Cycles This article offers tips on how to manage energy and be more productive using 24-hour energy oscillation cycles.
  23. BurnoutMeditationMindfulnessPersonal I Burned Out 10 Years Ago -- Here's How Mindfulness Brought Me Back This article describes my experience of professional burnout and the tools of mindfulness, meditation, and resilience that brought me back to a state of optimal wellbeing.
  24. AnxietyMeditationMindfulness Try This Science-Based Technique for Overcoming Fear and Anxiety This article outlines one of the most powerful techniques for overcoming the experience of fear and anxiety.
  25. MeditationMindfulnessNotice, Shift, Rewire Stop Trying To Meditate Like a Monk: An Argument For Chaos Meditation An article about the shift from monk-style meditation to a form of meditation that works with the chaos of modern life.