Are you intrigued about the idea of mindfulness and how you can bring it to
work? Well in this video, I'm going to teach you five things you can do today
to bring mindfulness to the workplace.
Hi I'm Adriana Girdler, productivity specialist, president of CornerStone
Dynamics and MyVisualVision.com. In this video, I'm going to give you five
tips that you can do today at work to be more mindful. Now if you want to have a
greater understanding as to what is mindfulness, why even bring it into work,
all that great stuff, I actually have another video that I created a while
back that you can take a look at that gives you that more in-depth information,
and I do recommend it because there's a lot of good research and information out
there. Not only that but I have a bonus for you too, today I'm gonna give you
five in the video, but in my bonus download, that if you go to the 'show me
more' section under this video, you can click and download an extra five, so
that's going to be 10 tips in total. But in this video I'm going to focus on five,
so let's go to number one, so tip number one is mindful minute. So the first thing
you do when you come into work is you sit at your desk, you can even use your
phone for one minute and just close your eyes and take some breaths and just
really be mindful be present in that moment, for one minute, before you start
anything, before you look at your email, before you get into the groove at all,
allow yourself to be grounded. Very quick easy technique to be mindful in that
moment and get you started off on the right note. Tip number two: mindful
breathing. Now breathing is really important when it comes to mindfulness
because it allows you to slow down, it takes any stress levels that you have,
which you're usually running pretty high with and allows you to bring it down, so
when you do breath, it's not a shallow breath, which is usually, what, how we
breathe when we're stressed out, it's a belly breath, so you can take a deep
breath in from the belly up through the diaphragm and you're gonna breathe it
out, now you just don't do it once, because that's not gonna be mindful, okay,
anybody can do that, you want to set your timer or at least have it for one to
three minutes, really focusing on that breath, your eyes can be open, there's no
rule that they have to be closed, you can if you want, but just focusing on your
breath for one to three minutes, deep diaphragm belly breathing is
really going to allow you to bring you down to that moment of grounding this, and to
be present at that point in time. So if anything is going on and you're really
stressed out, great technique from a mindfulness perspective. Tip number three
is mindful listening. Now I love this one, because usually when we think about
mindfulness, we're so focused on what is it that we can do, but it's also with
people around us. What can we do with them? And mindful listening, particularly
in the workplace, is really important because I promise you when we're
stressed, and we're really busy, guess what, we're not listening and then we
miss out on the information. And then there's assumptions and then people get
upset because things were taken out of context. Why? Simply because people
weren't listening. So just like the mindful moment, just like the mindful breath,
mindful listening is about being in the present moment, not worrying about
formulating your thoughts, so you can answer back, but really listening to the
person speaking. And highly recommend that when you listen, talk back to them
in regards to summarizing what they just said. So that they actually hear that you
listen. It's going to disarm any issues that may be popping up because people
know that you're actually taking the time to figure out what they're saying.
It's actually gonna help you out a lot too, because when you're listening around
you, you're going to get the information you need in order to do your work. For
efficiency and effectiveness. And that's really important, as well. Tip number four,
mindful walking. This is my favorite favorite, favorite, favorite, favorite!
Mindful walking is literally walking, but at a much slower rate, and it's taking into
account what's happening around you. So when I do my mindful walking, I actually
love walking outside, because if you think about it, when we're walking, and if
I do this little test, just walk you can see how fast it is, and you're not
noticing anything around you. But when you actually do a mindful walk,
you go slower, just like I'm talking slower, slower pace, notice the movement
that's actually happening around you, you really see this outdoors because you can
see, actually the trees, and the leaves moving, and all of a sudden, oh my gosh
there's tons of butterfly, what's going on,
birds, I never saw that before when I was so in my moment. But you can also do
this within the office, if you're going to a meeting and you're rushing,
you're not taking note of anything, go slower, allow yourself to just focus on
what you're doing, one foot at a time, even go super slow, that allows you just
to be in that moment, which is what is what mindfulness is about, to bring you
down, make you grounded and when you're at a point where you can just look at
things, you'll be amazed at what opportunities pop up, so definitely try
mindful walking. Last but not least, particularly for work, tip number five is
mindful interaction. What do I mean by that? Well I want you to put yourself in
someone else's shoes. So you're busy, you're walking mindfully now to a
meeting, someone sees you, and they oh my god they're walking slow, I'm gonna talk to
them. That's not what happens, but hey it could, but they have something they want
to talk to you about, and they're not happy. So instead of getting defensive
right away, mindful interaction is to take away that emotional charge, is just
to look at the situation for what it is, put yourself in that person's shoes to
understand where they're coming from, you'll be amazed, the compassion that
actually comes up, and you realize perhaps it is not about you, it's about
that person, so that you don't become defensive, which can charge a situation.
Really great tool and technique to use with anyone. Perfect tool if you're a
manager and employee, in regards to those relationships. Take the charge out of
stuff, people do not wake up to do things on purpose, but yet we behave in that
manner, so have some mindful interaction, and that will make a huge difference in
relationships. So with those five mindful tips, take them today, try practicing one,
every day. Get really good at it. Don't forget, under the verbiage below this
video, under the "Show Me" section, go down and download an extra bonus of five more
mindfulness tips. They really work! It's a choice, you can choose to do this, you can
choose not to do it, but I will tell you this, if you choose to do this you will
find a huge benefit with mindfulness. It will bring you to a whole new level that
you just didn't know existed. On that note, thank you so much for
watching this video. Please give it a thumbs up, subscribe below, and most
importantly, share this with your work colleagues. Really critical in getting
everyone in that mindful moment, and I would be really appreciative as well.
Thanks a lot, see you at the next video. Bye!