Zen Management

Jan Chozen Bays, MD - physician and Zen teacher - has developed a series of simple practices to help us cultivate mindfulness as we go about our ordinary, daily lives. Exercises include: taking three deep breaths before answering the phone, noticing and adjusting your posture throughout the day, eating mindfully, and leaving no trace of yourself after using the kitchen or bathroom. Each exercise is presented with tips on how to remind yourself and a short life lesson connected with it.

"Be brave. Be kind. Fight fires." That's the motto of firefighters, like Hersch Wilson, who spend their lives walking toward, rather than away from, danger and suffering. In this unique collection of true stories and practical wisdom, Wilson shares the Zen-like techniques that allow people like him to stay grounded while navigating danger, comforting others, and coping with their personal response to each crisis. As in Zen practice, firefighters are trained to be fully in the moment and present to the heartbeat, the life at hand.

The principles in this book can be applied to leadership at any level, providing listeners with the tools they need to shift awareness, enhance communication, build trust, eliminate fear and self-doubt, and minimize unnecessary workplace drama. Embracing any one of the seven practices alone can be life-changing. When used together, they support a path of well-being, productivity, and positive influence.

Zen To Done (ZTD) is a system that is at once simple, and powerful, and will help you develop the habits that keep all of your tasks and projects organized, that keep your workday simple and structured, that keep your desk and email inbox clean and clear, and that keep you doing what you need to do, without distractions. This book was written for those who want to get their lives organized and actually execute the things on their to-do list by changing existing habits.

Imagine you're circling a crowded parking lot. Just as you spot a space, another driver races ahead and takes it. In a world of road rage, domestic violence, and professionally angry TV and radio commentators, your likely response is anger, even fury. Now imagine that instead of another driver, a cow has lumbered into that parking space and settled down. Your anger dissolves into bemusement. What has changed? Not just the occupant of the space but your perspective on the situation.

Do you often find yourself struggling to control your frustration? Are you tired of blowing up at your friends, family, and co-workers? Or do you want to discover a new source of inner peace and tranquility? If so, then this audiobook is for you.

Think of a time when you were worried about something, but then you suddenly realized how insignificant it was. Isn’t it amazing how much lighter you felt? The key is to focus only on the here and now. By doing so, you free yourself from unnecessary anxiety, and your mind will be at peace.

Stanley Bing follows his enormously successful What Would Machiavelli Do? with another subversively humorous exploration of how work would be different - if the Buddha were your personal consultant.

Stress Release Coach, Bo Sebastian, teaches his technique of Zeroing-Out the brain in this first-of-its-kind book. This book offers ideas, facts, and suggestions to rid your life of anxiety and stress. Bo owns Hypnosis on Las Olas in South Florida. He has been dedicated to relieving and resolving anxiety and stress for over 30 years.

Wrestling with fear doesn't have to be a negative experience. This book offers an approach to life that unlocks a new way of thinking and being in the world, one that leads directly through the center of the anxieties we seek to avoid. Written in the style of an owner's manual, a guide to being human, Burkett focuses on areas of pain and anxiety as they tend to manifest for modern people: feelings of unworthiness, and issues surrounding sex, money, failure, and even death.

Teaching in middle schools is a dynamic environment that calls for more than just subject-matter expertise. Effective administration is the cornerstone of any successful classroom, and in "The Zen of Classroom Management," Nissan Dawn provides a revolutionary method for addressing middle school issues. This extensive manual provides thirty useful tactics that are based on the mindfulness and adaptation principles of Zen, specifically designed for the special energy and complexities of the middle school setting.

The Zen Leader does not encourage you to just "be peaceful." Neither does it suggest you work harder, faster, or ignore the pressure. Quite the opposite: it's about using the pressure to propel "flips" in consciousness that create transformational leaders, leaders who create the future with joy and enthusiasm, rather than drive themselves and their people to exhaustion.

Author Bonnie Cogzette shares all the tools and techniques needed to go from being extremely anxious and too stressed to discovering your Zen and true tranquility. We might not remove stress from our lives completely—after all, it helps to get things done—but when your stress is taking over your life, it's time to take back your control. Know Your Zen, the first book in the Zen Your Way series, will guide you to taking care of yourself while putting your well-being and needs first through tiny effective actions and changes.

Most people who practice Zen techniques are calmer and more satisfied in their lives. It’s one of those things you have to experience to understand it. A pure Zen perspective on life can carry many benefits. It can help reduce stress and anxiety, alter the neurochemicals in your cerebrum, and make you feel more powerful and capable of things because of a more balanced outlook on the many challenges you face every day.

The Little Book of Zen Money delivers easy-to-follow steps for combining sensible saving strategies with mindfulness practices to achieving financial peace of mind. Finally, you can know how to fix your finances without feeling stressed out! In this book, you'll find out that sound financial strategy is far more straightforward than the financial industry wants you to think. It reveals the path to mindful money simplicity, showing listeners how to adopt behaviors that encourage responsible saving and spending.

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Wie geht ein gutes Leben heute? Der Musikjournalist Stephan Kunze lebt nach dem Motto hart arbeiten hart feiern ist 24/7 online und immer am Limit - weil das im Berlin der Nuller-Jahre als einzig cooler Lifestyle gilt. Bis ihn mit Anfang 30 scheinbar grundlos Panikattacken und gesundheitliche Probleme in die Knie zwingen. Zum ersten Mal stellt er sich die Frage: Wo folge ich nur der Meute und was ist mir wirklich wichtig? Er beschäftigt sich mit Zen-Buddhismus Meditation Minimalismus und den Lehren der antiken Stoa und stellt fest: Je mehr Dinge ich loslasse desto reicher werde ich.

The fulfilled life is aware of its passions and desires. Without this chemistry from within, life is viewed as work and work as life. The goal is to help find the part of you that instigated this journey of leadership and continue to move forward towards an entity that gives you life and, in turn, gifting life back to your people and to the world. The desperation that develops when one misses this step brings a sense of being trapped within the walls of your leadership role.

David Serpa takes a spiritual approach to business, family, and life in Zen Business. Offering an alternative to the allusive strive for balance to those desperately seeking to find it here in the West. If you find yourself sacrificing today for tomorrow, waiting for the light at the end of the tunnel, or just unhappy with the person in the mirror, it may be time to slow down, reflect, and listen to Zen Business.

All the strategies in the world will not work if you're too tired, stressed out, or overwhelmed by all the work and information that's coming at you. When your stress levels are tremendous or energy levels are at rock bottom, it can be difficult to maintain any kind of discipline. You just want to be lazy and that eventually leads to procrastination. While it is impossible to completely do away with stress, we can learn to deal with it mindfully by practicing Zen.