If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment.

CEOs are hired for their intellect and business expertise - and fired for a lack of emotional intelligence.

Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.

Every morning, I go off to a small studio behind my house to write. I try to ignore all email and phone calls until lunchtime. Then I launch into the sometimes frantic busy-ness of a tightly scheduled day.

Emotional self-control-- delaying gratification and stifling impulsiveness- underlies accomplishment of every sort

Making choices that improve things for all of us on the planet is an act of compassion, a simple act we can do any time we go shopping.

Research shows that for jobs of all kinds, emotional intelligence is twice as important an ingredient of outstanding performance as cognitive ability and technical skill combined.