by Dr. Chris Johnson | Sep 20, 2011 | Attention, Learning, Mindfulness
“To meet the demands of the fast-changing competitive scene, we must simply learn to love change as much as we have hated it in the past.” – Tom Peters You may wonder why I have chosen to write about change here and you’d be right to wonder. There...
by Dr. Chris Johnson | Jul 18, 2011 | Attention
Here in Chicago, where typically sauna-like conditions of midsummer have given way to temperatures evoking images of warm blankets during football season, we’ve not yet reached the 90 degree mark. With this summer the second coolest on record, the weather is an...
by Dr. Chris Johnson | Jun 11, 2011 | Learning, Mindfulness, Practice
I live on an alley. Every Thursday at 5:30 a.m. a grimy garbage truck, louder than any dump truck I’ve heard, sits outside my bedroom window, waking me as its driver goes through the motions of picking up waste from the condos next door. Typically, I awaken to this...
by Dr. Chris Johnson | May 7, 2011 | Attention, Learning, Mindfulness, Resilience
With searing pain, eyes teary, my knotted calf screamed out in pain. At the aikido dojo, practicing a move on my knees, I persisted in sitting back on my haunches not being up on my toes, something all aikido students know as essential for the hamni hantachi move. ...
by Dr. Chris Johnson | Apr 22, 2011 | Attention, Learning, Mindfulness
This past Sunday was sunny, a windy warm 76°, nearly 20° higher than normal for April in the Midwest. I was itching to get outside, to check out the blooming crocuses on the parkway. Winter had seemed so long this year; like so many, I, too, was ready for this...
