“The goal was (and still is) very simple: I wanted to get control of my mind in some way.” Jeffery Hackert is the Director of Engineering and Development at Chef,…
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How I Meditate: Neumitra Founder Anand Yadav
“I would be overwhelmed with anxiety before giving a public speech. My heart would palpitate and my fingers would turn frigid.” Anand Yadav is the founder of Neumitra, the startup that…
How I Meditate: Futuredraft Founder Hans Krueger
“Meditation gives me the space to concentrate, go deeper, and understand a couple of layers more than I would be able to with my ‘surface mind’.” Many people give up…
How I Meditate: Etsy’s John Allspaw
“I knew I was having trouble coming to terms with the difference between what I was good at and what I was interested in, and where those two things overlapped.”…
Why Creativity Takes Practice: Our Interview with Ayla Newhouse
“You can’t just expect to wake up and be creative without doing the work.” While writing the creativity chapter for The Strongest Mind in the Room, Lift’s book about how…
500 Days of Meditation: Johannes Gmeiner
Meditation keeps me riding my bike in bad weather and eating healthy. Johannes Gmeiner is a Coach.me user with over 500 checkins in the Meditate goal. He practices almost every…
How I Meditate: Susan Piver
“Meditation practice teaches you to [keep writing] and not get carried away by either good days or bad.” Susan Piver is a best selling author of books on meditation, relationships,…
How I Meditate: Heath Armstrong, Host of The Artrepreneur Now Podcast
“So you think meditation is a big pile of donkey ass, huh? I did too.” ~ Heath Armstrong Heath Armstrong is the creator and host of The Artrepreneur Now, a…
How I Meditate: Josh Roman
“I’m better at handling disagreements. Countless times I’ve felt myself developing a sense of frustration that in the past would have had me leaping into either a heated discussion or an…
How I Meditate: Lauren Fritsch
“Athletic coaches are fond of saying “visualize the win.” As a former college athlete the mind/body connection was crucial to performance. Professional performance is no different.” Lauren Fritsch coaches corporate…