[OWWL Success Tip] Is your definition of success killing your business and maybe killing you?

Do you often feel stressed or overburdened? Does your life feel like it’s too jam-packed with to-dos and not enough purpose? Have you created a lifestyle that leaves you anxious, frustrated, or burned out? This lifestyle could be killing your business – or even you! Instead, how would you like to thrive, be successful, and create a life of well-being, wisdom, and wonder?

In our O.W.L. programs we teach that well-being is one of the pillars of success. So you can imagine my delight to learn of Arianna Huffington, Greek-American author and syndicated columnist. She is best known for her news website The Huffington Post. She was also named as number 12 in Forbes’ first-ever list of the “Most Influential Women In Media.” Her platform includes helping women redefine success for themselves.

O.W.W.L. Success Tip: Thrive, don’t just survive.

To help you do just that, Arianna Huffington, wrote the book Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder. It offers a number of strategies you can use to bridge the gap between knowing what you could be doing to thrive, and actually doing it rather than just agreeing with but not implementing these principles in your own life. In addition to making sure you’re getting sufficient amounts of high-quality sleep, Arianna recommends incorporating the following strategies in your day-to-day life:

• Meditation. It can be as short as five minutes to start. Simply allow your thoughts to come and go, returning your focus to your breath without getting caught up in your mind’s meanderings. The purpose of mindfulness meditation is to simply be “fully present” in the moment. This is where you can notice how you really feel, and connect with who you really are, deep down.
• Sweeping your mental corridors. She also suggests making the conscious decision to drop negative or judgmental thoughts and anxieties at the end of each day. If the thought or feeling does not serve you, let it go.
• Practice gratitude. Keeping a daily gratitude list of the many little blessings in your life can help you shift your focus to how good your life is instead of dwelling on the challenges. “If we can redirect our mind to focus on the blessings, I find that I feel much more joyful and much more filled with energy,” Arianna says.
• Connect with others face-to-face. Start making personal connections with people you come across every day that you might have taken for granted – it could be the cleaning crew in your office, the checkout clerk, or the barista in the coffee shop. Connecting with people face-to-face will allow you to become more present in the moment, and more connected with the rest of humanity. It also helps you tap into empathy and compassion—two emotions that often fall by the wayside when you’re too stressed and disconnected to even notice the world around you.
• Do one thing at a time. Multitasking is an illusion. Research shows that multitasking is actually task-switching, and it’s very stressful. It also promotes anxiety. If you can walk down the street, and really just walk, without texting or talking on the phone, it will connect you with the moment. You will be able to notice the sunset, a flower, the design features of a building, or the smiling face of a baby.

My wish, as Arianna’s, is for all of us is to live a life of Well-being, Wisdom, and Wonder AT THE SAME TIME WE ACHIEVE SUCCESS.
What is one thing on her list that you could do today toward this end?

Sincerely,

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