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Meditation is Your Best Productivity Tool

Meditation is Your Best Productivity Tool, by Tom Caklos. Photograph of woman meditating by JD Mason
Photograph by JD Mason

Meditation is a great way to calm your mind, but did you know that it is also an amazing way to help you become more productive?

Ten years into my dream job as an English instructor, I started to experience the worst nightmare known to any teacher: Burnout.

I can’t say when exactly it started or even why; I just know that I underwent a downward spiral of where I was lacking motivation, losing my grip on creativity, and switching to autopilot. This is something no high school teacher should have to endure because in the end, the students are the ones who are short-changed. I knew had to do something fast or else turn

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