Welcome to unLOCKEd’s Marketing Mindfulness Series!
In today’s hectic digital world, mindfulness practices can provide relief from the chaos when you can’t just shut it off. Mindfulness can benefit your personal and professional life, which we discussed in more detail in July’s Marketing Mindfulness blog. If you haven’t read it yet, be sure to check it out!
We are sharing one mindfulness practice a month to help you gradually implement mindfulness into your daily life. Trying to make a big change all at once can be daunting and frustrating, but with one small change each month, you can make a big difference!
December Mindfulness Practice: Focus on the Positives
This month’s mindfulness practice is to focus on the positives. Now, this doesn’t mean you should ignore negative parts of your day, such as mistakes or difficult situations. Instead, it means not to let these get you down or forget about the wins. Maybe you learned from your mistake, or the difficult situation resulted in something valuable for your team. Maybe your coffee was just really good this morning! Just as most days are not all good, most days are not all bad, either.
Benefits
By no means are we trying to say that negative parts of your day or life are not important – they can help shape you just as much as the positive parts! However, dwelling on the negatives or stressing over them can have a harmful impact on your outlook and mental health. Taking time to focus on the positives allows you to find good in the bad, such as learning from your mistakes, and reminds you that there is good when you are feeling down. Over time, being tuned in to the good things that you take for granted every day can cultivate a mindset that enables you to deal resiliently with all the bad things that inevitably try to derail your day.
How to Implement This Practice
Developing a mindset that allows you to take account of the positives in the moment can take time. You likely won’t be able to see the good in a tough situation immediately. The best way to begin to implement this practice is to build it into your routine.
If you’ve been working on last month’s practice, you’ve likely started to find mindfulness in your morning and nighttime routines. This is a great time to introduce this practice, as well! Take a moment at the end of each day to reflect on the positive aspects of your work and express gratitude for the opportunities and challenges that contributed to your growth. Over time, this will get easier, and you might not even need to consciously think about noticing these aspects!
Mindfulness can be especially important during the chaotic holiday season. We hope this mindfulness practice helps! Be sure to look out for next month’s blog to continue this series with us!
Author: Sarah Murphy
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