Wednesday Wisdom

"You have to impose, in fact — this may sound very strange — you have to decide who you are, and force the world to deal with you, not with its *idea* of you.” — James Baldwin

15 practical steps Thich Nhat Hanh says we can take to bring mindfulness to our work:

• Wednesday
• 7. At lunchtime, eat only your food and not your fears or worries. Don’t eat lunch at your desk. Change environments. Go for a walk.
• 8. Make a ritual out of drinking your tea. Stop work and look deeply into your tea to see everything that went into making it: the clouds and the rain, the tea plantations and the workers harvesting the tea.
• 9. Before going to a meeting, visualize someone very peaceful, mindful and skillful being with you. Take refuge in this person to help stay calm and peaceful.