Mama said there’ll be days like this
There’ll be days like this, mama said
(Mama said, mama said)
Mama said there’ll be days like this
There’ll be days like this, my mama said
(Mama said, mama said)
It was the hit song in 1961 by The Shirelles. Looking for a sweet memory you can watch the video here.
The past few days, I wake each day to the remaining light of the Full Worm Moon and pinch myself as if to check is this “real” or a movie. It’s real. Evidently, we are living in a time of the global pandemic, US election, and global human quarantine. Did your mom say there would be days like this? Mine did not.
People, it does not have to be this way. With each sunrise and sunset, we can collectively make new choices of wellness, health, connection, kindness, and mindfulness. Focus on what we share in common not what tears us apart.
Three ways to be less stressed on Friday the 13th:
- Affirm the good. Today write yourself an affirmation and say it to yourself when the times get tough. Affirmations are not for the self-help gurus and the people who “have time”. Affirmations are for everyone. Here is an example. I am healthy and at peace. What you think about you bring about. When that social media post pops in with fear – say it with me. I am healthy and at peace.
- Breathe and take a moment to feel that breath move through your body. The simple act of breathing and slowing the breathing can slow stress, anxiety and overwhelm. Seeing as we are all washing our hands more now. Take that 20 seconds while washing your hands to breathe. Breathe and see the anxiety going down the drain.
- Intention – we cannot continue to use the same conscious thoughts that got us into this mess to get us out of it. Your intention is how you set your energy in motion. While we are all still unpacking the various gifts that come from Coronavirus one of them is we are all being forced to get out of our numb routines. This is a gift. Taking us out of overwhelming and mind-full ness to think and feel with mindfulness (presence). Each day pick one word of how you will put your energy in motion in these interesting times. Nobody gets up each day and says, “My intention is stress today.” But in the absence of positive intention, we end up there. Say it with me, “My intention is wellness today.” Or pick a positive intention that feels good for you. Together we can make a more positive choice, one day at a time. Need daily help here grab a copy of my print or ebook Everyday Mindfulness From Chaos to Calm In A Crazy World as your daily intention devotion.
Is your company issuing a travel ban? Do you or your team still need to connect, brainstorm, solve problems and explore the new frontier of leading in these “interesting” times? This eleventh week of 2020 we are living in interesting times. In many ways, everything has changed, and nothing has changed. We’ve always lived in uncertainty and connectedness. We all should have been washing our hands. Do one thing today to reset your mindset to choose faith and love over fear.
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Mindful People: Empowering Mindful Business
Founder of the C-Suite Network Mindful Leadership Council the premiere community for where mindfulness and leadership connect. The council she leads creates, contributes, and advances mindful leadership as a practice in the workplace. This is an elite group of professionals dedicated to the application of what mindfulness is, and the advancement of personal and emotional support for leaders to grow the income and impact of their businesses.
Holly Duckworth, CAE, CMP, LSP is CEO of Leadership Solutions International, is a trailblazer transforming businesses and industries as a contributor to the New York Times, Producer/Host of the Everyday Mindfulness Show with more than 150 episodes Holly has provides training programs on applied mindful leadership around the world. Bring Holly to your company conference or event to educate, connect or inspire.
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The importance of being present while having a positive and resilient mindset has never been as vital as it is in today’s world of information overload, social media, and short attention spans. Cut through the challenges and learn how mindfulness can benefit you personally and create more opportunities for your productivity and business growth.
For all leaders, from aspiring through executive who need to perform in high stress or uncertain situations.
Everyday Mindfulness: From Chaos To Calm In A Crazy World
The stress of living today requires us to have stress reduction and focus techniques. Science has proven that mindfulness-based stress reduction is reducing health care costs and improving productivity and happiness. Mindfulness teaches you how to be fully present in each experience to become your best self. This session teaches you 7 applied mindfulness practices you can do at your desk, in your car, everywhere you go.
For leaders of all levels in need of inspiration and motivation to get through the most challenging days.
How To Increase Your Strength, Pride & StaminaAs A Mindful Sales Professional
The stress of living as a sales professional today requires us to have focus and stress reduction techniques while selling. Look at your business mindset and the sales process in a different way. As a result of this session, you will make a commitment to be your most empowered and confident self while selling your unique product, or service.
For sales leaders (especially commissioned professionals and top producers) when you need to increase sales in a sustainable way.
Leadership Begins With Visionary Questions: How Inquiry Increases Your Innovation & Solutions
With all the changes in our lives and workplace, the need for a greater inquiry, and the opportunity to imagine the future, why are we not asking visionary questions? When you don’t, much is left on the table and you have minimized your and others’ influence, leadership, curiosity, and change perspectives. Join us to discuss simple yet often not practiced, methods that lead to different types of questions. Notably, visionary questions.
For all leaders when you need to increase creativity, provide clarity, and innovation.
Today Holly takes the best of her strategic vision expertise, blends it with mindful leadership practices and her event background to curate conversations, and experiential events that change hearts, minds and companies.
Holly’s is among Biz Bash most influential thought leaders for 2019, Meetings Today 2018 Trend Setter for her applied mindfulness work and 2016 Smart Meetings Woman of the Year. Holly’s current best-selling book, Sell More, Stress Less: 52 Tips To Become A Mindful Sales Professional offers mindful tips for sales leaders. Her daily motivational book Everday Mindfulness From Chaos to Calm in A Crazy World is a best seller.
|Are you looking to lead your business in a different, more sustainable way? If so, then a conversation with Holly Duckworth is a must. Holly believes we are human beings, not human doings and teaches leaders how to bridge the personal practice of mindfulness into profitable business culture.
Founder of the C-Suite Network Mindful Leadership Council the premiere community for where mindfulness and leadership connect. The council she leads creates, contributes, and advances mindful leadership as a practice in the workplace. This is an elite group of professionals dedicated to the application of what mindfulness is, and the advancement of personal and emotional support for leaders to grow the income and impact of their businesses.
Holly Duckworth, CAE, CMP, LSP is CEO of Leadership Solutions International, is a trailblazer transforming businesses and industries as a contributor to the New York Times, Producer/Host of the Everyday Mindfulness Show with more than 150 episodes Holly has provides training programs on applied mindful leadership around the world. Bring Holly to your company conference or event to educate, connect or inspire.
Overcoming Leadership Stress Through Mindfulness
The importance of being present while having a positive and resilient mindset has never been as vital as it is in today’s world of information overload, social media, and short attention spans. Cut through the challenges and learn how mindfulness can benefit you personally and create more opportunities for your productivity and business growth.
For all leaders, from aspiring through executive who need to perform in high stress or uncertain situations.
Everyday Mindfulness: From Chaos To Calm In A Crazy World
The stress of living today requires us to have stress reduction and focus techniques. Science has proven that mindfulness-based stress reduction is reducing health care costs and improving productivity and happiness. Mindfulness teaches you how to be fully present in each experience to become your best self. This session teaches you 7 applied mindfulness practices you can do at your desk, in your car, everywhere you go.
For leaders of all levels in need of inspiration and motivation to get through the most challenging days.
How To Increase Your Strength, Pride & StaminaAs A Mindful Sales Professional
The stress of living as a sales professional today requires us to have focus and stress reduction techniques while selling. Look at your business mindset and the sales process in a different way. As a result of this session, you will make a commitment to be your most empowered and confident self while selling your unique product, or service.
For sales leaders (especially commissioned professionals and top producers) when you need to increase sales in a sustainable way.
Leadership Begins With Visionary Questions: How Inquiry Increases Your Innovation & Solutions
With all the changes in our lives and workplace, the need for a greater inquiry, and the opportunity to imagine the future, why are we not asking visionary questions? When you don’t, much is left on the table and you have minimized your and others’ influence, leadership, curiosity, and change perspectives. Join us to discuss simple yet often not practiced, methods that lead to different types of questions. Notably, visionary questions.
For all leaders when you need to increase creativity, provide clarity, and innovation.
Today Holly takes the best of her strategic vision expertise, blends it with mindful leadership practices and her event background to curate conversations, and experiential events that change hearts, minds and companies.
Holly’s is among Biz Bash most influential thought leaders for 2019, Meetings Today 2018 Trend Setter for her applied mindfulness work and 2016 Smart Meetings Woman of the Year. Holly’s current best-selling book, Sell More, Stress Less: 52 Tips To Become A Mindful Sales Professional offers mindful tips for sales leaders. Her daily motivational book Everday Mindfulness From Chaos to Calm in A Crazy World is a best seller.
|Are you looking to lead your business in a different, more sustainable way? If so, then a conversation with Holly Duckworth is a must. Holly believes we are human beings, not human doings and teaches leaders how to bridge the personal practice of mindfulness into profitable business culture.
Founder of the C-Suite Network Mindful Leadership Council the premiere community for where mindfulness and leadership connect. The council she leads creates, contributes, and advances mindful leadership as a practice in the workplace. This is an elite group of professionals dedicated to the application of what mindfulness is, and the advancement of personal and emotional support for leaders to grow the income and impact of their businesses.
Holly Duckworth, CAE, CMP, LSP is CEO of Leadership Solutions International, is a trailblazer transforming businesses and industries as a contributor to the New York Times, Producer/Host of the Everyday Mindfulness Show with more than 150 episodes Holly has provides training programs on applied mindful leadership around the world. Bring Holly to your company conference or event to educate, connect or inspire.
Overcoming Leadership Stress Through Mindfulness
The importance of being present while having a positive and resilient mindset has never been as vital as it is in today’s world of information overload, social media, and short attention spans. Cut through the challenges and learn how mindfulness can benefit you personally and create more opportunities for your productivity and business growth.
For all leaders, from aspiring through executive who need to perform in high stress or uncertain situations.
Everyday Mindfulness: From Chaos To Calm In A Crazy World
The stress of living today requires us to have stress reduction and focus techniques. Science has proven that mindfulness-based stress reduction is reducing health care costs and improving productivity and happiness. Mindfulness teaches you how to be fully present in each experience to become your best self. This session teaches you 7 applied mindfulness practices you can do at your desk, in your car, everywhere you go.
For leaders of all levels in need of inspiration and motivation to get through the most challenging days.
How To Increase Your Strength, Pride & StaminaAs A Mindful Sales Professional
The stress of living as a sales professional today requires us to have focus and stress reduction techniques while selling. Look at your business mindset and the sales process in a different way. As a result of this session, you will make a commitment to be your most empowered and confident self while selling your unique product, or service.
For sales leaders (especially commissioned professionals and top producers) when you need to increase sales in a sustainable way.
Leadership Begins With Visionary Questions: How Inquiry Increases Your Innovation & Solutions
With all the changes in our lives and workplace, the need for a greater inquiry, and the opportunity to imagine the future, why are we not asking visionary questions? When you don’t, much is left on the table and you have minimized your and others’ influence, leadership, curiosity, and change perspectives. Join us to discuss simple yet often not practiced, methods that lead to different types of questions. Notably, visionary questions.
For all leaders when you need to increase creativity, provide clarity, and innovation.
Today Holly takes the best of her strategic vision expertise, blends it with mindful leadership practices and her event background to curate conversations, and experiential events that change hearts, minds and companies.
Holly’s is among Biz Bash most influential thought leaders for 2019, Meetings Today 2018 Trend Setter for her applied mindfulness work and 2016 Smart Meetings Woman of the Year. Holly’s current best-selling book, Sell More, Stress Less: 52 Tips To Become A Mindful Sales Professional offers mindful tips for sales leaders. Her daily motivational book Everday Mindfulness From Chaos to Calm in A Crazy World is a best seller.
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