Mindfulness for leaders: Energy, resilience, and change

- [Instructor] Increasing resilience and boosting energy. No one likes failure. People find it hard to accept. However, executives who confront a failed project or business endeavor can use mindfulness to examine what happened, where they may have failed, and what lessons they need to learn from this experience to prepare them for success in the future. Leaders need to recover after a failure. You need to know that simply not succeeding isn't something reprehensible. In poker, you can make a killing if you get a good hand, yet your real skill as a player comes when you get a weak hand. Use meditation to increase your resilience. Deep breathing can help you counter stress. If you have only a limited time, try to concentrate on something that has special significance to you. What makes this object, person, moment, place, or work of art important to you? Picture the feelings and the ambience that connects with this…