370 Shares Earlier, I talked about how you can use meditation practices “in real time,” while you’re working on a task, to stay focused and motivated. In this post, I’ll discuss how some forms of movement and breathing from yoga can help you find efficiency and ease in your work. Usually, when we think about productivity, images of well-organized e-mail inboxes and color-coded folders come to mind. But these things alone aren’t enough to make us efficient. If our minds aren’t disciplined — our attention is scattered, or we feel sluggish or anxious —... More »
677 Shares Most productivity writing is about tips for organizing our workspace — creative ways to arrange our e-mail inbox, write to-do lists, color-code folders, and so on. These techniques can be useful, but they don’t deal with one of the biggest obstacles to getting our work done: our own minds. As I’ll bet you’ve experienced, if your attention is scattered, you feel sluggish and unmotivated, or you’re paralyzed with anxiety about what others will think of your work, it’s going to be tough to make the kind of progress you want, no matter... More »
