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Assess your capacity for focus with this handy tool from my friends at The Potential Project.  In collaboration with Harvard Business Review and in partnership with Accenture, managing the brain bank is becoming serious business. 

New research from Judson Brewer on mindfulness and compulsive behavior:  Cutting the link between conditioned cues of desired objects and the craving that leads to addictive behavior.  We all have our compulsions – mindfulness offers a way to reframe the inner dialogue and build flexibility into how you relate to your own desirous thoughts. 

Turning down the volume of the inner critic:  Mindfulness is useful way to address low self-esteem, without temporarily bolstering positive views of oneself,  supporting the development of a more secure form of high self-esteem.  

“We urgently need new, human-centered thinking—considering happiness, wellbeing, purpose and meaning”  Professor Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum.

More great content from my friends at Mindful.org – I enjoy both hardcopy and online. Here, 3 great breath practices to calm and focus the mind.

9 minutes from Becoming Wise:  Kristen Tippet interviews Brené Brown on our cultural allergy to vulnerability, and the connection between struggle and courage.

Guess who will be increasing her underwater lap time in the coming year? 

 A mindful approach to ruminative thinking, with kindness in the forefront.

Distress Tolerance, Compassion, and Intentional Writing: Science backed resilience strategies from the Greater Good Science Center.  Love these guys!