Is It You or Is it Me?

This week, I was feeling out of sorts with no evident reason why - until Thursday morning. That's when I got back into my meditation routine. My Muse device told me I hadn't meditated in four days!

When I started meditating daily six years ago, I saw remarkable changes in my life. Good things started coming to me out of the blue. Things which used to drive me bananas didn't phase me anymore. I had changed and life around me changed.

Is meditating the answer to world peace? Maybe. I do know it helps with my corner of the world.

Projects, Not Complaining

I was driving to Truro the other day and thought I would listen to a CD on the way. So I listened to Jack Canfield's Success Principles.

Jack's first rules had to do with taking responsibility for yourself and not complaining. This got me to thinking about project management (of course...) and how those who initiate projects do so with an "opposite of complaining" mindset. That is, instead of going on complaining about something, they take a "let's get it solved" attitude and turn it into a project.

If you are a project initiator, congratulations on your proactivity.

Mindfulness and Project Management

I was reading a book on mindfulness the other day. The author, who was also a manager, found she was always thinking of planning her next project when she wanted to be focusing on what she was doing. So she came up with a workable solution: she set aside time for planning. When she wasn't in this planning time, she would focus on what she was doing. When she was in the planning time, she focused on planning. Seems to me a good way to be efficient.

In thinking about mindfulness and project management, I did some internet searching and found this article, which I hope you like: Be a Mindful Project Manager by Kiron Bondale.