"You miss 100% of the shots you never take" ~ Wayne Gretzky
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Meditation, the best-kept secret.
By Lorraine Alexander
Why do so many of America's top executives practice meditation? Time is valuable, yet executives prioritize this practice twice daily. Meditation develops and improves personal skills and awareness. The three top attributes that will contribute to a leading edge are creativity, emotional intelligence, and focus.
"What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? ~ Robert H. Schulter
Take your best shot
Begin by thinking of meditation from a new perspective; think of it as a daily practice that cultivates and refines essential business skills. If you've never fully embraced this ancient practice, you may never realize your potential.
Former professional Canadian ice hockey player, Wayne Gretzky, has been called the greatest hockey player ever by sportswriters, players, and the NHL itself. One of his well-known quotes says it all, "You miss 100% of the shots you never take." This advice may ring true for many of us. Daily meditation is the perfect vehicle to boost creativity, confidence, and focus needed to "take your best shot."
Creativity flows with stress reduction
Countless business individuals do not fully understand the power of the creative mind. Enhanced awareness offers expanded creativity. With regular meditation, we reduce stress and encourage the growth of awareness and expansion of creativity. We problem-solve and work within groups in new and unique ways. With daily practice, we begin to think outside the box to find solutions with ease.
Begin by thinking of meditation from a new perspective; think of it as a daily practice that cultivates and refines essential business skills. If you've never fully embraced this ancient practice, you may never realize your potential.
Former professional Canadian ice hockey player, Wayne Gretzky, has been called the greatest hockey player ever by sportswriters, players, and the NHL itself. One of his well-known quotes says it all, "You miss 100% of the shots you never take." This advice may ring true for many of us. Daily meditation is the perfect vehicle to boost creativity, confidence, and focus needed to "take your best shot."
Creativity flows with stress reduction
Countless business individuals do not fully understand the power of the creative mind. Enhanced awareness offers expanded creativity. With regular meditation, we reduce stress and encourage the growth of awareness and expansion of creativity. We problem-solve and work within groups in new and unique ways. With daily practice, we begin to think outside the box to find solutions with ease.
Emotional intelligence and enhanced leadership
The ability to work with people is a leadership skill that has enormous value. Quite often, we don't see ourselves objectively. Is there room for improvement? Self-awareness through meditation, allows us to connect with others in a deep and meaningful way. In time we become calm, confident, and compassionate, easily seeing the other person's point of view. A meditator often owns a perspective of win-win, while realizing that 'getting their way' is no longer important. Instead, the greater good and the big picture become paramount. The byproduct is better relationships—both personal and in the business environment.
Focus replaces the chatter
How can meditation improve our focus? By nature, humans tend to dwell in the past and worry about the future. There's so much unnecessary chatter in our heads. How can we concentrate? How can we focus, when all that noise distracts us from meaningful goals and work performance? We need headspace—we need calm—we need to 'quiet the mind' so we can focus on the present. Silent-mantra meditation is designed to do exactly that, calm the mind. It's effortless and effective.
Meditation trains us to be in a calm state as our default. Once we calm down and quiet the chatter, we can focus in a clear way; we can go from scattered to laser beam focus in a matter of months, the difference can be night and day.
In summary
Meditation can help you develop these three essencial leadership skills—quite possibly the jumpstart you need. And there's no time like the present to begin.
The ability to work with people is a leadership skill that has enormous value. Quite often, we don't see ourselves objectively. Is there room for improvement? Self-awareness through meditation, allows us to connect with others in a deep and meaningful way. In time we become calm, confident, and compassionate, easily seeing the other person's point of view. A meditator often owns a perspective of win-win, while realizing that 'getting their way' is no longer important. Instead, the greater good and the big picture become paramount. The byproduct is better relationships—both personal and in the business environment.
Focus replaces the chatter
How can meditation improve our focus? By nature, humans tend to dwell in the past and worry about the future. There's so much unnecessary chatter in our heads. How can we concentrate? How can we focus, when all that noise distracts us from meaningful goals and work performance? We need headspace—we need calm—we need to 'quiet the mind' so we can focus on the present. Silent-mantra meditation is designed to do exactly that, calm the mind. It's effortless and effective.
Meditation trains us to be in a calm state as our default. Once we calm down and quiet the chatter, we can focus in a clear way; we can go from scattered to laser beam focus in a matter of months, the difference can be night and day.
In summary
Meditation can help you develop these three essencial leadership skills—quite possibly the jumpstart you need. And there's no time like the present to begin.
“Meditation more than anything in my life was the biggest ingredient of whatever success I’ve had.” That’s what Ray Dalio, the billionaire founder of Bridgewater Associates — the world’s largest hedge fund firm--explained in an interview in 2012 at a Georgetown University.
According to the Huffington Post's 2013 article 'The Daily Habit of These Outrageously Successful People'—the list of top 10 executives that meditate include: Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and CEO, News Corp., Padmasree Warrior, CTO, Cisco Systems, Tony Schwartz, Founder & CEO, The Energy Project, Bill Ford, Executive Chairman, Ford Motor Company, Oprah Winfrey, Chairwoman & CEO, Harpo Productions, Inc., Larry Brilliant, CEO, Skoll Global Threats Fund, Ray Dalio, Founder & Co-CIO, Bridgewater Associates USA, Russell Simmons, Co-Founder, Def Jam Records; Founder of GlobalGrind.com, Robert Stiller, CEO, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc., Arianna Huffington, President & Editor-in-Chief, Huffington Post Media Group.
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