Day two of the challenge focuses on eliminating distractions at work. Janice Marturano, executive director of the institute and author of Finding The Space To Lead, introduced the challenge on Huffington Post Live last week to launch the challenge and you can watch the broadcast here! As Marurano writes in the current issue of Mindful magazine: The mindful leadership curricula we have been presenting combine some of the latest neuroscience discoveries with established mental disciplines drawn from the meditative tradition....

Wondering how you can incorporate some of those benefits into your own pregnancy? Here are her five tips for having a mindful pregnancy and early parenthood from Aimee Karr, who teaches yoga and meditation for pregnancy at her studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Books Mindful Birthing: Training the Mind, Body, and Heart for Childbirth and Beyond by Nancy Bardacke The Mindful Way through Pregnancy: Meditation, Yoga, and Journaling for Expectant Mothers by Anne Cushman, Mimi Doe, and Judy Leif Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting by Jon and Myla Kabat-Zinn...

“Corporations have jumped on the mindfulness bandwagon because it conveniently shifts the burden onto the individual employee,” write Ron Purser and David Loy in the Huffington Post. “Stress is framed as a personal problem, and mindfulness is offered as just the right medicine to help employees work more efficiently and calmly within toxic environments.” Do such arguments have scientific merit? Or do they throw the mindful baby out with the corporate bath water?...

What does Moto G Pure bring to the table? What does Moto G Pure bring to the table? The pricing for Moto G Pure is set at under $160. So it fits squarely in the budget category of Android smartphones. But “budget” doesn’t necessarily mean “cheap.” For the money, Motorola is packed with a slightly more powerful and efficient processor, the MediaTek Helio G25, than the $199 Moto G Play. That octa-core chipset is also backed by 3GB RAM and 32GB of microSD card-expandable storage....

Here’s the list of movies available on Peacock in 4K: The Black PhoneThe Book of EliDiscarded ThingsFast & FuriousThe Fast and the FuriousFast FiveFor the Love of JesseeHome Sweet HomeThe Huntsman: Winter’s WarThe Least of TheseLucy Shimmers and the Prince of PeaceMan’s Best FriendMinionsShrekThey/ThemUncut GemsYou Should Have Left Not a large library of 4K content, but it’s better than nothing. None of Peacock’s original series are available in 4K just yet When you open one of these titles on Peacock, you will see a small 4K icon displayed on the title screen....