Executive Coach Executive CoachExecutive Coach  3 Ways to Quiet
Your Mental Chatter (aka Monkey Mind)  Sometimes, calming the
"monkey mind" is easier said than done. Sometimes, calming the
"monkey mind" is easier said than done.
ziggysofi/Shutterstock.com  Has this happened to you lately?
You’re in a conversation, or a meeting or working on an
important project. All of a sudden, out of nowhere, you’re
thinking about what you’re going to have for dinner or the email
you forgot to respond to or the March Madness game you watched
over the weekend or an errand you forgot to run or someone you
need to call or that crazy episode of House of Cards you watched
last night. The likelihood is you’re having a whole series of
those thoughts, not just one. It sure happens to me; that list
of random thoughts I just wrote comes straight from my current
playlist.  In doing the research for my new book on mindfulness
for overworked and overwhelmed leaders and professionals, I’ve
learned that the average person has 70,000 thoug