Quotes About Mindfulness

My two cents: Excellence is the next five minutes or nothing at all. It's the quality of your next five-minute conversation. It's the quality of, yes, your next email. Forget the long term. Make the next five minutes rock!

If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present." —Lao Tzu

What Does It Feel Like? "If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present." —Lao Tzu

antes de dormir, yo tomo fosfatidilserina y N-acetil cisteína (o NAC

21-Day No Complaint experiment that I've written about before on my blog (fourhourblog.com):

3—When in doubt, starve it of oxygen.

As soon as I stopped fixating on the destination—where I wanted to hit the ball—and instead focused on what was in front of me—the point of impact—everything began to work.

The app Headspace is a fun way to start. Try and do it every day. But I suggest not doing it while you are walking . . . for now.

Are You Fooling Yourself with a Plan for Moderation?

Most see excellence as some grand aspiration. Wrong. Dead wrong. My two cents: Excellence is the next five minutes or nothing at all. It's the quality of your next five-minute conversation. It's the quality of, yes, your next email. Forget the long term. Make the next five minutes rock!

Recuerda que los beneficios sólo te beneficiarán en la medida en que puedas disfrutar de ellos.

Where in your life are you good at moderation? Where are you an all-or-nothing type? Where do you lack a shut-off switch? It pays to know thyself.

The struggle ends when the gratitude begins." [Quote attributed to Neale Donald Walsch]

if we're serious all the time, we'll wear out before we get the truly serious stuff done.

Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace." –Robert J. Sawyer

To enjoy life, you don't need fancy nonsense, but you do need to control your time and realize that most things just aren't as serious as you make them out to be.

So I thought, 'I'm always on time, and I always show up to things, so why don't I do that for myself?' So I put a handwritten note next to my bed that said—and it has three exclamation points—'Mike!!! You have a meeting at Café Pedlar [where I was writing] at 7 a.m. with your mind,' which is so stupid. It's so embarrassing to admit, but it worked!

La diversificación sirve casi en cualquier ámbito de la vida para reducir el estrés».

siempre que te encuentres con alguien le digas en tu cabeza "te quiero

Life is too short to be busy.

Be the silence that listens."–Tara Brach Teacher of meditation and emotional healing, author of Radical Acceptance

Even today, I still benefit from that because I don't merge and bring things together and see everything as one big problem. I take them one challenge at a time.

Time without attention is worthless, so value attention over time.

It's impossible to be angry and grateful simultaneously. When you're grateful, there is no fear. You can't be fearful and grateful simultaneously.