Meditation: The Missing Ingredient in Your Career?
Think of meditation as the province of Buddhist monks, gurus in caves and yoga devotees? Then perhaps you’d be surprised to learn that a wide spectrum of successful career-minded folks from Tiger Woods to Harvard Business School professors engage in the time-honored practice of training the mind in focus and clarity. Still think meditation sounds too touchy-feely for you? As an article in the London Evening Standard points out, high-flying organizations from Google to NASA offer meditation classes to staff. The paper points out that “meditation not only helps focus but it is also an effective preventative treatment of stress-related illnesses that cost businesses billions every year.” It can also be a head-clearing counterpoint to our always-plugged-in culture as Keith…
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