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{"id":1418,"date":"2013-07-05T14:08:41","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T14:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/?p=1418"},"modified":"2013-07-14T14:20:22","modified_gmt":"2013-07-14T14:20:22","slug":"189-mindfulness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/?p=1418","title":{"rendered":"#189 Mindfulness"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='kindleWidget kindleLight' ><img src=\"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/send-to-kindle\/media\/white-25.png\" \/><span>Send to Kindle<\/span><\/div><p>Any decent course on leadership these days teaches &#8220;mindfulness.&#8221; My <a title=\"Book on Leadership in Strategy Execution\u2122\" href=\"http:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/?page_id=255\" target=\"_blank\">book<\/a> does so as well, but does not use the word. I figured the word is being overused, and decided to avoid it, but instead address the heart of how to develop and apply mindfulness. I am still unsure whether that was a good move or a colossal marketing mistake.<\/p>\n<p>I also stayed away from abstract thinking used to describe mindfulness, and go straight into applications. Once you apply the teachings in the book, the taxonomy and abstractions around &#8220;mindfulness&#8221; will make sense with a blinding clarity.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a <a title=\"Mindfulness\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thegreatcourses.com\/tgc\/special\/practicing-mindfulness.aspx?ai=69205&amp;cm_mmc=email-_-FreeLectDS20120716-_-body-_-Free&amp;cm_mmca1=69205\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a> from the Great Courses\u00ae that provides an awesome overview of mindfulness. Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any decent course on leadership these days teaches &#8220;mindfulness.&#8221; My book does so as well, but does not use the word. I figured the word is being overused, and decided to avoid it, but instead address the heart of how to develop and apply mindfulness. I am still unsure whether that was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"no"},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1418"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1423,"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions\/1423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}