Close your eyes and just pay attention to your breathing. You don’t have to change your breathing in any way at all, although you may find that in a short while it shifts into a more relaxed pattern by itself. If you get any ‘mental chatter’, just let it happen. Left to itself, it will
Recently I picked up the guitar again, after a layoff of about 10 years, and started singing and playing at the local open mic night. I should add that I was nothing like a good guitar player previously, so I can safely still describe myself as a beginner’. One difference about learning any skill now
Here’s a little gem I heard from Marcus Buckingham on Daniel Pink’s excellent ‘Office Hours‘ phone-in podcast (click the following link to see my other favourite leading-edge management thinking podcasts). One of the subjects discussed was how performance appraisals and ‘stack and rank’ (happening way too late to provide useful feedback) drained motivation and focused
I put this image up on Facebook and a lot of trainers seemed to like it. So here it is – you can use it freely (yes, even for commercial projects) as long as you leave the copyright statement and URL in the image. Of course, I would love it if you include a live
