Mindfulness on the Blockchain

Brian Wallace
The Startup

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Starting a new business is difficult, and it’s not always easy to manage your stress. If you ever find yourself browsing the web when you should be doing something else, you might help to focus on practices that lower stress and improve performance. With the right wellness practices and reinforcement to keep you showing up, it’s easier than ever to be a better you.

Yoga, meditation, and music are well known ways to help manage stress, lower anxiety and generally improve your mood. But these practice can do more than just make you feel better, they can help also minimize pain and improve your memory. With apps and streaming services you can practice from anywhere, anytime.

If healthy behaviors are so easily accessible, why doesn’t everyone practice them? The answer is simple. In today’s economy, one of the most valuable commodities is our attention. Social media and other sites are designed to keep us engaged with endless scrolling, notifications, and likes. This battle for our attention takes time away from the other things we could be doing.

To fight back against the attention economy, consider a fitness platform that uses gamification and incentives to get people motivated. To learn more, check out this infographic about wellness on the blockchain:

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Brian Wallace
The Startup

Founder of NowSourcing. Contributor to Hackernoon, Google Small Business Advisor, Podcaster, infographics expert.