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Meditation for Entrepreneurs — A Blueprint

Be calmer, more creative, more joyful, and less worried as an entrepreneur through the power of meditation.

Michael Burkhardt
10 min readJan 12, 2019

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“An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.” — Roy Ash

Let’s be honest.

As entrepreneurs, we all need to cope with uncertainty, evaluate risk, constantly learn, and adapt to an ever-changing environment. Often times it means working harder, longer, and sacrificing short-term gains for a longer-term goal. Not the most stable and predictable way of living.

Luckily, meditation offers many techniques to work through these challenges while helping you to get to know yourself better.

The most obvious benefit of meditation is that it reduces stress levels. However, there are many more profound benefits to be reaped.

More specifically, meditation can help to

  • Be more centered — Entrepreneurs sometimes need to make quick decisions and iterate quickly, and good decisions are only being made when distracting thoughts and negative emotions are out of the way.
  • Be more goal-oriented—…

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