Meditation for a Monday
Several weeks ago, I attended a training at INSEAD (a business school in France) with a number of the leaders from the IBM iX organization. One thing that struck me was that one of our senior leaders made a comment about how she starts each day with meditation. I've written about my struggles with guilt and how one of my goals is to move beyond that this year; likewise another goal of mine this year is around being more present. After hearing Nancy talk about her meditation routine, I started researching and reflecting on this - and, for the past month, have been trying to incorporate a meditation into my own routine. As a bit of context, I am Catholic and converted to Catholicism when I married Johnny. As I was in the process of my own faith journey, I read a lot of books, especially enjoying many by Father James Martin, who is a Jesuit priest. Likewise, my husband is Jesuit educated and I like to joke that I myself would be a Jesuit if I could be. The Jesuits are known for a f