What are some tips for improving relationships with our colleagues at work?
We spend a good deal of our lives at the workplace. It’s in our own higher self-interest to bring principles and practices such as right livelihood– making a life, not just a living– and finding our true vocation. It is also important to bring moral ethics and a more unselfish and a service-oriented approach to things rather than being overly competitive, egotistical, shortsighted, and exploitive. It is shortsighted to think only of ourselves and our momentary wishes, wants, and desires. In the bigger picture, we can start to recognize that we all want and need more or less the same things and that it is not really beneficial to advantage and further own interests by disadvantaging others. On a more practical, day-to-day note, we could learn how to bring mindfulness and awareness into our workplace by slowing down a little and simplifying things; by taking short breaks for instant, mini-meditations or moments of mindfulness, such as by using by Buddhist bumper sticker slogan, “Breath
