Does the word "mindfulness" calm you or annoy you?

I attended a real estate conference early last quarter, and I’m completely exhausted.  Imagine five straight days of 7am-10pm listening/learning/connecting with 11,000 people, for an introvert.

I’ll share more about that experience later, but for now, here’s one thing that jumped out at me.   A speaker there, Jay Shetty, spoke of “mindfulness”.  Usually when I hear that, I think meditation, ugh, tried, fall asleep, get antsy, can’t do it, etc.  But he made it sound easy.  He said to just set two meetings with yourself daily.  Five minutes in the morn and five minutes at night.  For the morning meeting, think to yourself…

“what’s the ONE THING I need to do to make today a great day?”

I’m the type of person that habitually bites off as much if not more than I can chew, which means that often at the end of the day, I’ve been running around all day, I’m tired, and I have no idea what I accomplished.  Taking the time to just think of one thing I need to do, that sounds delightful.

At the end of the day?

“What did I do right?”

If you ever ask me what I did wrong, no matter what time of day it is, I can come up with a million things.  But if you ask me what I did right?……………

The point of this? It’s one of his tools to have better “resilience”, and that seems like a good thing, right? I’m committing to this. Ask me in a month how it went :)