Enhance Attention and Retention

“Doodling engages the brain’s planning and concentration centers just enough to keep you living in the moment.” Gloria Tebelman/Rd.com This Reader’s Digest article goes on to share the many benefits of doodling, including its ability to enhance your attention and increase your retention of information. Doodling stimulates not just your creativity, but your memory too! Feeling…

Rhymes and Reasons

Are you truly living? In this six-minute lyrical journey, spoken-word artist Prince EA encourages us to live fully, pursuing our dreams, sharing our gifts, and being whole-heartedly ourselves. However, self-sabotaging behavior can undermine the courage that’s needed to fuel our passion. As Prince EA rhymes in this video: “There is a thief in your mind,…

Growth or Fixed?

Do you embrace problems as opportunities to learn?  Or do you avoid them for fear of failing? After decades of research on achievement and success, Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck developed the concept of mindsets, which are the beliefs that we hold about ourselves and our basic qualities. This five-minute animated video presents the two…

Energy Grows Where Attention Goes

“Mindfulness allows us to see our thoughts and feelings as they are beginning. With mindfulness, we can choose what we’ll strengthen and bring into action, and we can choose what we’ll gently let go of.” –Sharon Salzberg This two-minute video, narrated by Sharon Salzberg, New York Timesbest-selling author and world-renowned meditation teacher, and animated by…