Real Happiness at Work: Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement, and Peace [Paperback]

Real Happiness at Work brings the profound benefits of meditation to an area where people could use it mostthe workplace. And its written by one of the worlds leading meditation teachers.

A follow-up to Real Happiness, the New York Times bestseller, Sharon Salzbergs Real Happiness at Work is a practical guide to improving work life through mindfulness, compassion, and ingenuity. Its about being committed without being consumed, competitive without being cruel, managing time and emotions to counterbalance stress and frustration. It shows readers how to be more creative, organized, and accomplished in order to do better, more productive work.

Dividing the idea of workplace satisfaction into eight pillars, Real Happiness at Work is filled with secular wisdom; core meditations on broad themes like motivation, awareness, and seeing the good in others; and more than a dozen exercises, including Moving From Me to We and When Things Go Wrong. Sprinkled throughout the book are short stealth meditations, the kind that are quick, private, and doable anywhereLet the phone ring three times, follow your breath, then pick it up and For an upcoming one-on-one conversation, resolve to listen more and speak less.

Even the best jobs are filled with stress, tough deadlines, impatient bosses, seemingly endless meetingsall the ills of harried life. But as science increasingly shows, meditation is the antidote.