“If you constantly limit your life by saying I can't do this, I can't do that, this is incredibly difficult, this is completely impossible, you will never learn how much you can actually achieve and how much is quite possible! Don't make your life colourless by limiting your life, get rich by liberating your life!”
“Mindful leaders bring their attention to bear on the fact that habits can significantly affect the way they lead, as well as how others respond to their leadership.”
Source: Mindfulness-Based Leadership: The Art of Being a Leader - Not Becoming One
“Liking what you do is a bonus but not a necessity in Mindfulness-Based Leadership.”
Source: Mindfulness-Based Leadership: The Art of Being a Leader - Not Becoming One
“For a leader, doing is as important as being, with the key difference being that a mindful leader is able to see the intimate non-separation between the two.”
Source: Mindfulness-Based Leadership: The Art of Being a Leader - Not Becoming One
“Doing depends on being, but being does not necessarily depend on doing. This relationship is key to Mindfulness-Based Leadership as we act from mindfulness and its practices and insights. It is mindfulness practices that inform action, not the other way round.”
Source: Mindfulness-Based Leadership: The Art of Being a Leader - Not Becoming One
“Intention rather than instinct is required for mindful leaders, such that our decisions, strategies and goals are born of clear intention rooted in happiness, well-being and wholesomeness.”
Source: Mindfulness-Based Leadership: The Art of Being a Leader - Not Becoming One
“There is a tendency to assume that the end justifies the means. I would say that this is not true except in dire or exceptional situations. As mindful leaders, we should bring our awareness to the entire chain of intention, action and results.”
Source: Mindfulness-Based Leadership: The Art of Being a Leader - Not Becoming One
“Mindful leaders are more than what they do, and not limited by it. Intention completes the picture. That is the reason why behaviour should not be the sole basis for judgment.”
Source: Mindfulness-Based Leadership: The Art of Being a Leader - Not Becoming One
“Leading with mindfulness is ideally facilitative in nature rather than prescriptive. Your leadership uses awareness as its compass. A compass never tells you anything about the destination. All that it does is to show you the direction. But a compass is of no use without a destination.”
Source: Mindfulness-Based Leadership: The Art of Being a Leader - Not Becoming One
“The uniqueness of mindfulness is that we are not only interested in the process of reaching a goal but also the goal itself. The means are as important as the end. The end has to be wholesome in every sense of the word.”
Source: Mindfulness-Based Leadership: The Art of Being a Leader - Not Becoming One