Mindfulness and the power of the one thing
Two weeks ago I found myself in the unpleasant situation of being overwhelmed. You know how it is – you’re putting in the extra hours, or a client backs away from a deal that you needed that week, and at the same time you receive a fresh set of deadlines and financial pressures are building…
Lesson learned on how to leave work at work
Recently I went out to dinner with two old friends of mine who have been married for quite some time now. I was aware that the husband, Steve, had recently been offered a promotion at work and it had been great news for both of them. But while we spoke at dinner, I was surprised…
Wasting valuable time in meetings? Try mindfulness.
In my accounting days, I would often have to attend meetings, mainly at other people request. Some were productive, the majority weren’t. Everybody would have so many ideas that we wanted to try and say at once, to the point where people ended up talking over the top of one another. While I don’t think…
Productivity Gains by Decluttering Minds in the Workplace
I was speaking to a life coach whose whole approach to helping people was simplifying things. It said as much on her business card – “simplify your life”. That resonated with me greatly given that’s what I did in my various accounting jobs. Whenever I would start in a new business I would see the…
Being Mindful About the Fear of Public Speaking
I was at a conference last week and I was in awe of how comfortable the presenters were on stage, how it seemed as if they were talking personally to everyone in the room. Like it was a one on one conversation between them and each member of the audience. The fear of public speaking…
Is Meditation Taboo for Men?
I was at a business meeting during the week when a guy came up and said in hushed tones, “I’d be keen to have a chat with you about meditation”. Nothing too unusual really. He knew I meditated and was interested in knowing more. We’d had a few conversations previously and he was a really…
Is Silence Really Bliss? I don’t know, do you?
Some people can only meditate when they are in total silence, not me. I use guided meditations to have a focal point, to step me though a meditation. It helps my mind and puts me at ease with what I am doing. So when my guided meditations I used this week had longer periods of…
My Meditation Failure Last Week and the 3 Lessons Learnt
So meditation is not all plain sailing! And even though I have been meditating regularly for a fair while now, sometimes you fall off the bandwagon. Last week was one of those weeks for me. A combination of back and forth trips to family a couple of hours away and some interstate leisure travel thrown…
5 Ways to Free Your Mind at Work with Meditation
Productivity and performance are the buzzwords in every workplace these days. We need to do more work with less resources in an even shorter period of time! Work and life just seems to get more hectic by the day. Does this kind of work day sound familiar? Get into work, open the email. Gasp…
About Us – The People Behind My Meditation Home
Everyone has a story. And here is the story behind My Meditation Home. It starts with my father-in-law, John: “For me, the change happened so quickly. May 2011 and I was an active, healthy hard-working 55 year-old who had never even heard of tinnitus. Yet by early June I was hearing a chorus of locusts…
