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Thanks to the revitalization effort Dubé and Pearlman put into their company, a decade after they reacquired it, imageOne was featured on a 2017 Forbes list called Small Giants: America’s Best Small Companies.

This honor was the result of years of hard work and overcoming one obstacle after another. And for Dubé, it was an honor made possible by meditation and the clear and calm determination it provided.

If you’re still skeptical about the benefits of meditation, you don’t have to take the author’s word for it. You can also look to scientific facts.

In 2015, the Journal of Management published a study from Pepperdine University School of Business. It revealed that a person’s attention and focus could be significantly boosted by just a few hours of mindfulness practice. Mindfulness is a form of meditation intended to bring more awareness to what’s going on around us and in our minds in the present moment.

While meditation has a proven track record for helping business leaders and their companies, there’s really no limit or boundaries to how calm focus and increased awareness can improve one’s life.

For example, many soldiers have found meditation to be extremely useful for combating the stress and trauma that comes from being on active duty.

Now that you’re well aware of the benefits, let’s get down to the business of how you can start reaping the rewards of your meditation practice.

The first step to any successful session is to find a good place where you can practice undisturbed. This should ideally be a quiet spot at home or in the office, where you can enjoy some privacy or otherwise close the door and let others know that you’re not to be interrupted.

Just like any other exercise, the rewards of meditation come from regular practice. So, in a way, you can think of sitting and meditating as a way of strengthening your “presence muscles.”

But if you’ve ever let a gym membership expire, then you know that being consistent at exercising is easier said than done. So here are some helpful tips to help you stick with it.

If you want to become a better leader, a regular meditation practice will help by making you more self-aware and attentive to your surroundings and other people. But if you want to take it a step further, you could try a silent retreat.

Silent retreats offer you a way to go even deeper into your practice and have become popular for a variety of successful leaders, including Jeffrey Walker, a leading UN administrator, and Andrew Cherng, CEO of Panda Express.