Because I’m excited about it, I wanted to share with you the flyer for the first in a series of public talks I’ll be giving called “The Productive Mind And Heart.”  This one will be held at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California on Wednesday, February 18.
I’ll be speaking about some of the ideas I discuss [...]

As I said in the last post in this series, our usual reaction to the distracting thoughts and sensations that come up while we’re working is to either fight them—shame ourselves for experiencing them—or flee from them—procrastinate or turn to some other task.  I suggested that, instead of treating those thoughts and feelings as enemies, [...]

In the last post in this series, I talked about the ways of thinking that tend to block us from developing what I call “inner productivity,” or the mental and emotional state that helps us to be efficient and produce our best-quality work.
As I said, in our culture, we’re conditioned to ignore or push aside [...]

I recently wrote a piece at The Change Blog about the basic elements of what I call “inner productivity”—the ideal mental and emotional state for peak productivity and creating our best-quality work.  In this article, I take a deeper look at the common ways of thinking that keep us from developing inner productivity, and offer [...]

I’ve posted a piece at The Change Blog called “3 Keys To Developing Inner Productivity.”  It’s about taking a mindful approach to productivity, by focusing on building our capacity to pay attention and rooting out limiting beliefs and fears that block us in our work.  The article is at http://www.thechangeblog.com/3-keys-to-developing-inner-productivity/. 
You can also find out more about the [...]