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Ammi’s Adventures: Trees Ammi’s Adventures: Trees Hi! I’m Ammi. My name means “the whole world is inside of me,” and I think it’s true: I carry the whole world in my mind and heart and body. I know you do, too! I like to play games, explore, and discover what makes me, me. I’m so glad we’re together on this journey! When was the last time you hugged a tree? I can hardly imagine how many trees I’ve sat with, whispered to, climbed on, eaten from, been shaded by, and hugged in my life!...

The piece is by two business school behavioral scientists, Kathleen Vohs and Andrew Hafenbrack, who conducted research to test, among other things, whether “the mindfulness condition would reduce task motivation.” In other words, because mindfulness practice asks you to bring your attention to the “current moment” and “accept things as they are,” you’ll be less likely to “strive to obtain a more desirable future.” When you look under the hood, you find that the subjects in their initial experiment, about 100 people, were divided into two groups and paid $1....

This is so easy. Who enjoys cleaning the house and doing chores? No one, but we all appreciate when we don’t have to do them! Having a messy house isn’t fun either, so why not quickly do one {..or more} chore for your spouse today? This is sure to put a huge smile on your sweetheart’s face and of course make the evening together MUCH more enjoyable. Don’t forget to leave a sweet note nearby letting them know how much you love and appreciate them....

A research team from the University of Glasgow and Modeuro Consulting recently asked executives at the utility company London Power to think twice before hitting send. As a result, email around the office was reduced by half—not to mention that it freed up 11,000 hours of work time annually. Researcher Karen Renaud offers three suggestions:

Financial Times finds that the refrain is the same among these leaders: meditation is not a wonky practice, it’s integral to focusing and making decisions. So, if executives in high places are embracing meditation instead of raising their eyebrows at it, what are some of the hurdles? Perhaps not suprisingly, time constraints. From the article: Others, such as Philipp Hildebrand, vice-chairman of BlackRock and a former head of the Swiss National Bank, who has meditated for seven years, slot it into their schedules when they can – in aeroplanes or while being chauffeured between meetings....