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Backwards Designing Your Life to Optimize Your Presence

Everything we do is being consumed by our brain, which in turn influences how we think, react, and make decisions. The habits we consistently implement strengthen our brains to think, react, and decide accordingly. When we are in a state of chronic stress due to our habit of preparing for the future, yet finding ourselves in a state of preparation to attempt to manage the stress, those tendencies keep us away from the present moment and become our normal way of being, further feeding stress. This necessitates a Systems Thinking, Backwards Designed approach to automate our brains via Mindful habits to shift us from being reactive to proactive.

Research, Mindfulness, APPLYShelby ChollettNovember 7, 2021backwarddesign, understandingbydesign, ubd, mindful, mindfulness, optimization, education, habits, paradigm, systemsthinkingComment

Know Thyself Best

Mindfulness, REFINEShelby ChollettMarch 18, 2021mindfulness, selfaware, actualization, purposeComment

Be Present, Not Perfect: Cultivating Compassion

Working in education is extremely personal. It melts into nearly every crevice of our lives and is often a big part of our identity. Our natural devotion, paradoxically, is what can make us great and what can be our greatest burden.

APPLY, ResearchShelby ChollettJanuary 10, 2021mindfulness, mindfulComment

A Journey Into Mindfulness

I began skeptically studying mindfulness in 2017 after I had given my initial proposal for my doctoral research. I begrudgingly looked into mindfulness, a hippy-like practice that seemed too benign to make a difference in teacher stress or motivation. From the simplicity to the science of it all, the acquisition and practice of mindfulness became quite clear and necessary.

LEARN, Research, Resources, APPLYShelby ChollettDecember 1, 2020mindful, mindfulness, brainComment

Mindfulness, Mental Attitudes, & Consciousness: A Wicked Dance

How can contemplative techniques and the acquisition of mindfulness impact or be impacted by mental attitudes and consciousness? Theorizing a ‘the chicken or the egg’ correlation.