Mindfulness Instead of Multitasking - A Pleading for a More Conscious Life

About the book We can't multiply our time - we can only use it intensively and at present. This guidebook promotes a careful treatment with oneself and with others. Yet not only that: in a practical way it provides insight into the dangers of multitasking and gives suggestions for a more considerate and livable lifestyle. While you are reading you will have the chance to get onto the matter and to make surprising discoveries. You will get thought-provoking impulses on in which parts you will accomplish more success, life quality and easiness with the help of mindfulness. Whether in the job, family or in a relationship: a lifestyle based on mindfulness is beneficial - especially for yourself. It goes without saying that this little guide can't entirely fathom the whole aspect of mindfulness in 45 minutes of reading. Thus consider this book a helpful introduction and inspiration for the reader, who feels like knowing more. Some tips and advices may seem familiar to you. Some will certainly be new. Pick up whatever concerns you - or, in the best case, whatever touches you and start to build on that. Lets get started... Table of contents "Mindfulness instead of multitasking" 1. Introduction 2. Multitasking as a lifestyle - prospects and problems 2.1 Multitasking - desirable, fascinating, unnecessary or harmful? 2.2 Where does the term "multitasking" derive from? 2.3 Feeling vivacity 2.4 Why is multitasking so dangerous? 2.5 Brain researches confirm: multitasking robs energy 2.6 Self-consciousness and self-esteem diminish 2.7 Parents and educators as multi-taskers 2.8 Partnership, Friendship and Multitasking 2.9 Multitasking and burn-out-syndrome 3. Why does the multitasking trap always close? 3.1 The contribution of the social environment 3.2 We would like to meet everyone's expectations 3.3 The urge for distraction 3.4 Outside control vs. inside control 4. The discovery of mindfulness and awareness 4.1 What does mindfulness mean? - a pleasant reward 4.2 Self-efficacy increases 4.3 Relationship of couples and mindfulness 4.4 Mindfulness and upbringing 4.5 Mindfulness and workplace 4.6 Anecdote about mindfulness 5. How do we cultivate mindfulness and self-awareness? 5.1 Sharpening self-perception. 5.2 Gaining insight, changing behavior 5.3 Visualizing the goal 5.4 Exercises for mindfulness: getting to the here and now 6. Excursion: Enjoyment provides Profoundness, laughing is healthy 7. Summary 8. Appendix, Legal matters and about us "From the series "Madame Missou COMPACT - 45 minutes condensed experience" Book length: About 45 minutes of reading time, 34 pages""

About the Author :
Madame Missou - born in Bamako, Mali in 1960 as the daughter of the French Ambassador and an Argentinian lady botanist - studied Culture and History of Arts at "Universite Paris-Sorbonne." At the age of 25 she set out to the "New World." In New York she opened the gallery "Madame Missou's Best World Arts" and played main and minor roles in different musicals. In the early 90's she sold her gallery and moved her central part of life to Europe. At first she lived for a couple of years in Lisbon, Copenhagen, Moscow and London until, in 1999, she decided to move to Berlin for good. Here, she has been living with her family happily and peacefully for 15 years and is leading a successful life as a writer, life coach, consultant and artist. She has already published several bestseller-advisors, predominantly regarding women's topics. Among them is the little book, which you are holding in your hands. If you like to know more about Madame Missou, then you can get information for instance on the following webpage: http: //www.MadameMissou.de or on Facebook: http: //www.facebook.com/MadameMissou