Being Mindful

This month, we discuss the second of my four pillars of self-leadership, mindfulness. (The other three are purposefulness, reflection and practice.) When I give talks on self-leadership, I usually have a slide that shows the inflatable “autopilot” from the 1980 comedy classic, “Airplane.” Why? Because the idea of an autopilot is a pretty good metaphor for how most of us go through our days. Our mind is mostly operating without our conscious mental oversight. In the context of self-leadership, … [Read more...] about Being Mindful