It’s important to have your Brain ON book handy and these on-demand tools easily accessible as you go through your workday obstacle course and mental fitness routine. Check out the following resources – many of which are free to you.
Apps
- Insight Timer is a free meditation app with access to world class teachers to help with sleep, stress and anxiety.
- Healthy Minds Program uses neuroscience, contemplative traditions, and skill-based learning methods to help you develop the skills for a healthy mind. Translating pioneering neuroscience into tools for everyday life, the Healthy Minds unique framework guides you through the four pillars of the science of training the mind.
- How We Feel allows you easily track how you’re feeling each day and throughout your day so you can become more aware when you are brain off and better equipped to spot trends and regulate your emotions through simple practices and strategies to help you get and stay brain on!
Self Assessments
- Assessing Your Strengths via Character Strengths Personalized Assessment: Knowing and being able to use your strengths every day at work can help ensure you not only achieve what you set out to do that day, but find meaning and fulfillment in your day as well. Improving your workday is all about aligning and using your strengths and this free survey and resource will help you identify and hone in on your natural gifts and talents.
- Achieving Your Goals – Grit Assessment: Often times we get distracted or off course from what we truly want to achieve. That is where “grit” comes in. Angela Duckworth’s free, quick Grit Assessment is a helpful self-reflection tool to help you understand how your brain is wired when it comes to achieving your goals and focusing on your passions.
Meditations
- SIYLI: Google’s Search Inside Yourself Institute has a robust sampling of free, short meditations to exercise all your mental muscles from compassion and gratitude, to strengthening your focus. Strategically incorporate one meditation into your daily mental fitness routine for greater success.