Quotes About Mindfulness

The key to happiness, fulfillment, and enlightenment, the ex-professor argued, was to stop thinking so much about the future.

Forestalling pleasure is an inventive technique for getting double the juice from half the fruit.

Forestalling pleasure is an inventive technique for getting double

There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse.

Benjamin Franklin put it well: "Anger is never without a reason, but seldom a good one.

emotional self-awareness is the building block of the next fundamental emotional intelligence: being able to shake off a bad mood

People with well-developed emotional skills are also more likely to be content and effective in their lives, mastering the habits of mind that foster their own productivity; people who cannot marshal some control over their emotional life fight inner battles that sabotage their ability for focused work and clear thought.

People's beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities. Ability is not a fixed property; there is a huge variability in how you perform. People who have a sense of self-efficacy bounce back from failures; they approach things in terms of how to handle them rather than worrying about what can go wrong.

out-of-control emotions can make smart people stupid.

It's not the chatter of people around us that is the most powerful distractor, but rather the chatter of our own minds. Utter concentration demands these inner voices be stilled. Start to subtract sevens successively from 100 and, if you keep your focus on the task, your chatter zone goes quiet.

Psychological detachment from work, in addition to physical detachment, is crucial

elite performers have something in common: They're really good at taking breaks

Temporal landmarks slow our thinking, allowing us to deliberate at a higher level and make better decisions

99 percent of us cannot multitask.

Self-compassion begins by replacing searing judgment with basic kindness.

The second way to self-distance is through time. We can enlist the same capacity for time travel that gives birth to regret to analyze and strategize about learning from these regrets.

3. Study self-compassion.

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listen without listening for anything.

Set your phone alarm to beep every ninety minutes. Each time you hear the alarm, answer these three questions: What are you doing? On a scale of 1 to 10, how mentally alert do you feel right now? On a scale of 1 to 10, how physically energetic do you feel right now?

Pair New Year's resolutions with Old Year's regrets.

The highest, most satisfying experiences in people's lives were when they were in flow.

Take a deep breath, expanding your belly. Pause. Exhale slowly to the count of five. Repeat four times."7