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I came across Mindfulness with Jon Kabat-Zinn which is terrific. The workshop is an hour long but is well worth that time, it also includes a meditation session. Jon Kabat-Zinn talks about mindfulness and meditation, awareness, non-doing, beginner’s mind, to bring doing and being together, to be fully present.

Jon reminded me of the value of just tuning in to our own breathing as a simple way of bringing as back to here and now. Not with the intention to control our breathing, just to follow it and become more present.

I liked this presentation so much that I have ordered some of his books. Now I am looking forward to “Arriving at Your Own Door: 108 Lessons in Mindfulness”, “Mindfulness for Beginners” (CD) and “Wherever You Go, There You Are”.

See also: The 5-minute Meditator.

My choices of free software are avast! antivirus and Comodo Firewall. They work well together and are easy to set up.

What is the single most important advice for my readers to use simplicity for their personal development?

I like Leo’s answer and his definiton of simplicity:

Simplicity is, at its core, just choosing the essential over the non-essential. It’s a way to make the most use of your time, to be more effective, and to do the things you love.

Start by identifying 4-5 things you really love — those are the essentials in your life — then build your life around those things. Eliminate as much of the rest as possible. The same is true of work tasks and projects, of the things you spend on, on the clutter in your house — choose the essential and eliminate the rest.

The essence of his answer sounds easy - choose the essential and eliminate the rest - but is harder to implement.

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Zen Habits has a guest post by Mary Jaksch from Goodlife Zen about How to Establish New Habits the No-Sweat Way. It is about how Kaizen can help us to establish new habits. Kaizen is something I have in my own blogging (and action) idea box, I do really like the concept.

Think Simple writes about How to Tap Your Nap. It is about the ability to use the initial stages of sleep to generate creative ideas or to solve a perplex problem. Power naps, shorter than 30 minutes, are great in many ways.

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Then I came across Folders4Gmail which is a terrific script for Firefox with Greasemonkey installed. Suddenly your labels show up in a folder-like hierarchy. You controll the hiearchy with how you name your labels.

One of my favourite blogs is Zen Habits, it has to be in a post about Zen-related blogs.

Goodlife Zen has a post about Is there Life After Death?

Zendonut writes about Very Interesting Meditation Study From Harvard, similar to what I wrote about in Scientists probe meditation secrets.

cheerfulmonk.com has a post about Celebrating Baby Steps.

Transforming Stress Into Personal Power has a post about One Size Doesn’t Fit All. That post is filed under Lifelong Learning, something I like and also think is needed.

Success Soul has an interesting post about Bruce Lee’s 6 Ways to Develop a Kick-Ass Attitude.

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