11 Wildly Successful Entrepreneurs Who Swear by Daily Meditation
These super-successful entrepreneurs meditate and you should too.
There are heated debates in the entrepreneurial community about
most things related to personal growth, development and productivity.
Some people say bulletproof coffee, others swear against it.
Some say you can sleep just five hours, others say you
need a full eight.
Consensus is hard to find on most of these issues.
But one practice has become broadly accepted in recent years
and is commonly believed to be beneficial.
That practice is meditation.
It is hard to find someone with a compelling argument
against meditation.
Studies have shown meditation can change your brain matter,
reduce stress, and help entrepreneurs make better decisions.
The other thing you find when you look into meditation
is just how many successful entrepreneurs and high-level
executives are doing it.
Their methods vary, but when studying these people you
consistently find that nearly all of them have some form
of meditation built into their daily routine.
Here are 11 uber-successful entrepreneurs and executives
who swear by daily meditation:
1.
Jeff Weiner This former Yahoo
executive-turned-Linkedin CEO blocks out time in his calendar
each day to practice his meditation.
Why?
Weiner says the reason is simple: "Just to think."
This helps him to practice empathy and compassion and
has a positive impact on his productivity.
2.
Arianna Huffington As you could probably surmise
from her name, she is the founder of Huffington Post
and has been meditating since she was just a teenager.
Today she is a vocal advocate and says that meditation
alone has played a huge part in her success.
3.
Padmasree Warrior Warrior is the Chief Technology
and Strategy Office of Cicso Systems and was named
by Forbes as one of the top 100 most powerful
women in the world.
Reaching that level comes with a lot of stress, something
that Warrior manages with 20 minute meditation sessions
every evening.
4.
Jerry Seinfeld More than just a comedian,
Seinfeld is worth over $800 million, making him
one of the most successful entertainers in the world.
While some may have spiritual reasons for meditating, Seinfeld's
is simply for one purpose: productivity.
5.
Ray Dalio When the founder of the world's
largest hedge fund says that mediation is the single biggest
thing he can trace back to his success, entrepreneurs
should pay attention.
Well, that's who Ray is - and he's been meditating
for over 40 years.
5.
Bob Stiller As founder of Green Mountain
Coffee, Stiller not only believes in meditation for
himself, he encourages his entire team to practice it.
He even offers incentives centered around increasing
their happiness, which he believes is key to
reaching peak performance.
6.
Russell Simmons Like many others on this list,
Simmons shares a similar belief that nothing else
has been as important in his career than meditation.
As founder of the infamous Def Jam records, he's someone
worth listening to.
7.
Joe Rogan UFC host and host of the
popular podcast the Joe Rogan Show, he may not fit
the image of the average meditator,
but Rogan states it's had a large impact on allowing
him to focus on various ventures with a clear and
cool headed approach.
8.
Marc Benioff Yet another billionaire
meditator to make the list.
As the CEO and founder of multi-billion dollar sales
giant Salesforce,
Benioff says he began doing it earlier
in his career while working at Oracle and carried over
the practice as he went off on his own to start Salesforce.
9.
Andrew Chert CEO of Panda Express,
Chert doesn't just believe in meditation for himself,
he also strongly encourages the practice among his staff.
As the story goes, one time while in a meeting, a store
manager began to lose their cool.
Chert asked to stop the meeting and allow the person
to step out and meditate before returning.
10.
Bob Shapiro The former Monsanto CEO
turned venture capitalist began to meditate back
when he was a student at Harvard.
He told Bloomberg news, "As a business person,
I noticed a number of people I knew pretty well who
really picked up on it,
people who perhaps had come into it with some degree of
skepticism and found the experience useful."
11.
Oprah Winfrey Another billionaire on
this list, Oprah believes in mediation more as a form of
"getting closer to God" and
cites it as one of the most significant things she's done
on her journey to a billion-plus dollars
worth of success.
The list goes on and on but hopefully the message is clear.
Numerous successful people swear by meditation and
if you've studied personal growth, you are aware of the idea
of following "blueprints".
These are formulas that others have used to become successful
which you can follow as well.
Meditation is one of those success formulas worth following.
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