Mindfulness at Work: Turn your job into a gateway to joy, contentment and stress-free living

by Oli Doyle

Turn your job into a gateway to joy, contentment and stress-free living, with bestselling author Oli Doyle's six-week guide.

In Mindfulness at Work, bestselling author and mindfulness guru Oli Doyle guides you through a a six-week plan to show that even with demanding bosses and stressful environments, we actually can be happy at work. This guide will explore the possibilities that work provides for finding our stuck points, embracing difficult emotions and noticing the patterns of thought that keep us from feeling peaceful. Key learnings how to move beyond stressful future thinking to focus on what can be attended to now; how flow can benefit you and your organisation by making you calmer, more alert and more attentive to detail; and how to see work as your teacher rather than your project.

The Mindful Living series is a new series of short mindfulness books dedicated to enhance three important areas of our work, relationships and parenting. Oli Doyle shows that all the key domains of life provide great opportunities to practice mindfulness and discover peace of mind.

161 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 12, 2017

About the author

Oli Doyle first started practising mindfulness in 2003, and all he could find were books by the Dalai Lama and other Buddhist writers. Like many others, he found the task of putting those words into practice incredibly difficult, so he set about deconstructing this practice of mindfulness and translating the experience into everyday language. He now teaches mindfulness workshops and through his website and his teaching project, www.alittlepeaceandquiet.com, he provides the practical teaching to help readers deepen their practice quickly. His first book, MINDFULNESS PLAIN AND SIMPLE is aimed at people new to mindfulness and offers an easy way in to the discipline, helping people learn how to be mindful and find peace and happiness.

Reviews

[Tine Van Cauwenberghe · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read “Mindfulness at Work” by Oli Doyle. It introduces you to mindfulness and teaches you how to apply it at work. It gives you insights on how to lower your stress levels and live in the present. How important it is to be aware and just experience things rather than overthink them to find peace.

[Paiman Chen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Working with purpose
1-to be mindful
2-to bring mindfulness into action, to be present

[Nicola · Rating 5 out of 5]

Easy to read in bite size chunks
Practical advice that I’m hoping to practice more

[Alyce Hunt · Rating 1 out of 5]

I was recommended mindfulness last year, and after reading a few books I dismissed it because I didn't think it was for me. I wasn't sure if I was really giving it a fair chance, so I decided one more go might help.
It didn't.
When a book tells you:

"See how perfect you are, exactly as you are right now? You are exactly the age you should be, the weight you should be and the height you should be. Your IQ and your income are just right, whatever your mind may say. Unless the universe made a mistake, you must be exactly correct right now."

U WOT M8?
It's just so freaking reductionist. There's no point in trying to lose weight, because the UNIVERSE wants you to be that size! You're going to get older, because the UNIVERSE wants you to!
*head desk*
I have no idea how this got published.
There are some vaguely useful exercises - mostly breathing exercises, because THAT'S ALL MINDFULNESS IS - but the majority of this book is just Oli Doyle telling you that it's perfectly fine to take your time perfecting a task at work because there is no need to rush, and you should always take some time to sit there doing absolutely nothing because that won't piss off your co-workers or your managers.
Urgh.