Relax! You’ll Be More Productive

THINK for a moment about your typical workday. Do you wake up tired? Check your e-mail before you get out of bed? Skip breakfast or grab something on the run that’s not particularly nutritious? Rarely get away from your desk for lunch? Run from meeting to meeting with no time in between? Find it nearly impossible to keep up with the volume of e-mail you receive? Leave work later than you’d like, and still feel compelled to check e-mail in the evenings?

By TONY SCHWARTZ

Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/10/opinion/sunday/relax-youll-be-more-productive.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

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S.E.L. — social emotional learning — that teaches kids to relax, calming themselves into a state where they are better able to learn. http://www.matr.net/article-54124.html

How Meditation Can Make You a Better Leader http://www.matr.net/article-51406.html

Four Reasons You Should Care About Emotional Intelligence http://www.matr.net/article-50839.html

Study finds mediation helps make people sharper http://www.matr.net/article-39126.html