I find it weird when people think meditating is weird. Not only because meditating has enormous benefits for goal management and sustaining personal productivity…

but because everyone meditates.

Call it what you want, but when you are:

• zoning out, or
• In The Zone, or
• praying, or
• fishing, or
• experiencing that amazing feeling when you first wake up and lie there for 10 minutes before having to do a thing…

you’re meditating.

The only difference between those moments and “actual” meditation is that, in the latter, you think “I’m going to meditate” beforehand. It’s a difference, sure, but not enough of one to make one meditation and the other not.

Even Tony Soprano meditates.

All of us fortunate enough to have watched the Sopranos remember those moments when Tony, smoking a cigar, looked out over the ocean, the Las Vegas skyline, or his pool, focusing on one decision or another.

Walter and Skylar White did the same. I bet even Joseph Molesley meditated.

Each mindfully sat and explored his or her thoughts with some degree of detachment. They were meditating.

No need for sitting, legs crossed, fingers touching.

So, to start meditating, just think “I’m going to meditate” before doing whatever it is you were going to do anyways.