by Dr. Chris Johnson | Apr 5, 2018 | Attention, Practice
How do you spend your days? Ever feel like you’ve got to steel yourself for the day because there’s just so much to do? Ever say to yourself, “I just can’t find the time!” when you’d love to accept the offer to have dinner (attend a...
by Dr. Chris Johnson | Mar 1, 2018 | Practice
While skiing on the slopes recently, I was relishing the fresh powder and the fact that I was, well, skiing. Thoughts of work, of bills to pay and decisions to be made back home were merely fleeting thoughts and far, far away if they were present at all. I was on...
by Dr. Chris Johnson | Mar 24, 2017 | Attention, Practice, Purpose
I’m right, and you’re an idiot. This catchy book title I learned about recently sounds strangely similar to sentiments we’ve all heard plenty of, even uttered ourselves, over the months before and since the presidential election of 2016....
by Dr. Chris Johnson | Aug 11, 2016 | Consciousness, Learning, Practice, Resilience
It’s early August, those last few weeks when we crave catching some much needed R & R and diving into down time. Yet for many of us the burning-the-candle-at-both-ends phenomenon persists. Why? There are external stressors, of course, the deadlines and meetings...
by Brian Fippinger | May 4, 2016 | Attention, Consciousness, Learning, Resilience
Everybody loves a good challenge. The ALS website says that more than 17 million people participated in the Ice Bucket Challenge to support ALS and other causes. We all remember this one, how could we not. Pictures like this one showed up on every screen we owned...