Tony Schwartz's Blog

Slow Down, You Move Too Fast
Mindfulness | April 3, 2012
What do these words have in common? "Savor," "relish," " "luxuriate," "stroll," "muse," "dawdle," "mosey," "meander," and "linger?"We rarely use them, because we rarely do them. We don't have time. We've got so much to do, so many balls to juggle, so many miles to go before we sleep.
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30 Things We Need — and 30 We Don't
Mindfulness, Transformation | March 8, 2011
Do you have the feeling, as I do, that in the tsunami of everyday life, we're getting too much of stuff we don't need, and not enough of what we do? Herewith my first set of suggestions about how to redress the imbalance:
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Enough is Enough
Life Lessons, Mindfulness, Transformation, Values | January 11, 2011
Five years ago in The New York Times Magazine, the philosopher Peter Singer wrote the most important article I've ever read. It was called "What Should a Billionaire Give — and What Should You?"
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Six Secrets to Creating a Culture of Innovation
Innovation, Leadership, Mental Needs, Mindfulness | August 10, 2010
When IBM recently polled 1500 CEOs across 60 countries, they rated creativity as the most important leadership competency. Eighty percent of the CEOs said the business environment is growing so complex that it literally demands new ways of thinking. Less than 50 percent said they believed their organizations were equipped to deal effectively with this rising complexity.
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Savoring Your Time
Emotional Needs, Life Lessons, Mental Needs, Mindfulness, Physical Needs, Spiritual Needs | August 3, 2010
I've just rented a house for five weeks near the beach. It was my wife Deborah's idea. At first, I thought I'd work in my office in New York during the week and come out here Thursday nights for long weekends. But Deborah is planning to stay here for the full five weeks. I've been working really hard for the past year and the more I thought about it, the more it started to sound really appealing.
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