Search Inside Yourself: Increase Productivity, Creativity and Happiness [ePub edition]

Journaling is the practice of self-discovery by writing to yourself.

systematically bring moment-to-moment non-judging attention to different parts of our bodies, starting from the top of our head and moving down to the tips of our toes (or vice versa),

using joy as an object of meditation,

Resilience:

You may not speak except to acknowledge.

pretend you are already living in your ideal future five years from now and to write diary entries from the future.

When your meta-attention becomes strong, you will be able to recover a wandering attention quickly and often, and if you recover attention quickly and often enough, you create the effect of continuous attention, which is concentration.

The idea here is to shift from “doing” to “being,”

“knowing one’s internal states, preferences, resources and intuitions.”