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{"id":1425,"date":"2013-07-06T14:21:42","date_gmt":"2013-07-06T14:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/?p=1425"},"modified":"2013-07-14T14:41:11","modified_gmt":"2013-07-14T14:41:11","slug":"190-challenges-in-being-mindful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/?p=1425","title":{"rendered":"#190 Challenges in being mindful"},"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>Assuming you have watched <a title=\"#189 Mindfulness\" href=\"http:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/?p=1418\" target=\"_blank\">the video on mindfulness<\/a>, I must share with you some of the associated challenges in developing mindfulness.<\/p>\n<p>You will realize the meaning of the phrase, &#8220;Ignorance is bliss.&#8221; As you become aware of yourself and your surroundings, your anxiety may increase. This is counter intuitive, mindfulness is supposed to bring calm and reduce stress!<\/p>\n<p>This may happen because you do not know what to do about the problems you have uncovered. An assumption of mindfulness is that the &#8220;answer lies within you&#8221; and it will emerge. This is true, but the journey is painful. You can accelerate the process by learning tangible skills to address the problems that have been revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Assuming you have made progress in dealing with the anxieties of mindfulness, or are making satisfactory progress, the next problem is dealing with co-workers who are mindless. Remember, you cannot go around teaching mindfulness to your co-workers. That is not only <em>not<\/em> your role (unless you have permission to do so), but you will set yourself up for failure with your co-workers. The need to <em>show, not tell<\/em> becomes even more important.<\/p>\n<p>The burden of leadership will be fully revealed when you develop mindfulness. You see what others do not see. You have to be determined, vigilant, cheerful, take a stand, and open minded at the same time. Prepare yourself and and be resilient. The Buddha cracked the code for the non-work environment by laying out a <a title=\"Noble Eightfold Path\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Noble_Eightfold_Path\" target=\"_blank\">roadmap<\/a>. You have to discover or invent a roadmap for yourself in your workplace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assuming you have watched the video on mindfulness, I must share with you some of the associated challenges in developing mindfulness. You will realize the meaning of the phrase, &#8220;Ignorance is bliss.&#8221; As you become aware of yourself and your surroundings, your anxiety may increase. This is counter intuitive, mindfulness is supposed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425"}],"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=1425"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1429,"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425\/revisions\/1429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}