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Five Excellent Practices for Your Career Break or Sabbatical Mindset

BestPracticesImageInspired by a fifth-century conversation between Zi Zhang and Confucius about the practices of wise rulers in The Analects, here are five excellent practices for those taking time out from jobs and careers.  Even those who have no sabbatical in sight can cultivate a sabbatical mindset using these best practices.

  • Practice the arts of attention and listening.
  • Practice renewing yourself every day.
  • Practice meandering toward the center of every place.
  • Practice the rituals of reading and writing.
  • Practice allowing part of your day to unfold.

Adapted from The Art of Pilgrimage by Phil Cousineau.

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About Barbara Pagano

Founding Partner, yourSABBATICAL.com.

Barbara has spent more than 20 years helping leaders excel and facilitating for Fortune 500 firms. She has shared her leadership insights with audiences totaling more than 300,000 executives from companies like Coca-Cola, NCR, Target, and Turner Broadcasting, and she has personally coached almost 3,000 executives from companies including American Express, AT&T, and BellSouth. Barbara’s research on credibility, the diagnostic tools she has developed with a leading company in the assessment industry, and her focus on skills and measurable improvement offer leaders proven methods for building trusting, high-performing relationships. She inspires, teaches and holds leaders accountable for results. She is co-author of THE TRANSPARENCY EDGE: How Credibility Can Make or Break You in Business (McGraw-Hill), chosen by Fast Company magazine as a “Book of the Month.” The book is available on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Transparency-Edge-Elizabeth-Pagano/dp/0071458840/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1291230117&sr=8-1.

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Barbara and her daughter, Elizabeth, became fierce advocates for the sabbatical movement after experiencing their own six-month sabbatical, during which they sailed alone for 2,000 miles on a 43-foot sailboat named “Revival.” To read the story of their sailing sabbatical, go to http://yoursabbatical.com/about/team/pagano-sailing-sabbatical/.

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