How to Calm Your Mind

How to Calm Your Mind: Finding Productivity in Anxious Times | By Chris Bailey

A toolkit of accessible, science-backed strategies, How to Calm Your Mind reveals the path to a less anxious life, and even greater productivity, through calm.

Chris Bailey, researcher and productivity expert, realised he had burnt out. He was pushing himself too hard, and realised that productivity advice is useless without the mental space to use it. Productivity advice works - and we need it now more than ever - but it’s just as important that we also develop our capacity for calm. By finding calm and overcoming anxiety, we don’t just feel more comfortable in our own skin, we invest in the missing piece that leads our efforts to become sustainable over time. We build a deeper, more expansive reservoir of energy to draw from throughout the day, and have greater mental resources at our disposal not only to do good work, but also to live a good life.

The pursuit of calm ultimately leads us to become more engaged, focused and deliberate while making us more productive and satisfied with our lives overall. In an anxious world, achieving calm is the best lifehack around.