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Mark Bourdon

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Program Director

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Fargo, North Dakota

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Buddhism Meditation Reading Birds Our yard Four seasons of the year Bike riding Walking Running Movies Eating Boston Red Soxs Vincent Van Gogh Organizational Management Helping people cut through their delusions

I started Mark's Monday Morning Moments back in April 2004. I had just started my job as a Program Director and I began writing these "moments" every Monday to the staff I was working with to help them think about something that had or was occuring between us.

I was talking about these "moments" with a friend of mine who asked me if they could be added to the weekly list. Then the list began to grow based on requests and the "moments" began to expand to people outside my workplace; including thoughts and comments that I receive from this site.

What I write now are thoughts that have touched me based on my interactions with many individuals within and outside of work. These thoughts are open to further examination and change.

I hope that you find them helpful.

Wishing you peace and well being.

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November 23

The Now Moment

To be in the now moment means that you release all of the problems, all of the worries, and you bring the full of yourself to here and now. And within that now moment, your now moment allows your source to flow through you into your life (The Oracle).

Wishing you peace and well being as you find your source and let it flow through you.

PS: Remember to hold the one's you love just a little closer and tighter this week._/l\_

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November 16

Attachments

We become so invested in OUR views and opinions that those who think differently become our adversaries. We become a fundamentalist: one who feels strongly that we are right and we close our mind to those who think otherwise. (Pema Chodron. Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears.)

Wishing you peace and well being as you pause and look at your attachments.

PS: Remember to hold the one's you love just a little closer and tighter this week._/l\_

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November 09

Emotions

In Jill Bolte Taylor's book My Stroke of Insight, she points to scientific evidence showing that the life span of any particular emotion is only one and a half minutes. After that we have to revive the emotion and get it going again. Our usual process is that we automatically do revive it by feeding it with an internal conversation about how another person is the source of our discomfort. (Pema Chodron. Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears.)

Wishing you peace and well being as you become more familiar and at home with dropping the storyline and trusting that you have the capacity to stay present and receptive to others.

PS: Remember to hold the one's you love just a little closer and tighter this week._/l\_

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November 02

Open Minds

There is difference between WISHING for a thing and being READY to receive it. You are never ready for a thing until you believe you can acquire it. The state of mind must be BELIEF, not mere hope or wish. Open-mindedness is essential for belief. Closed minds do not inspire faith, courage, and belief. (Nathan Hill. Think and Grow Rich).

Wishing you peace and well being as you open you mind.

PS: Remember to hold the one's you love just a little closer and tighter this week._/l\_

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October 26

Mind Habits

Too many people have the habit of measuring everything and everyone by their own impressions and beliefs. These habits have been created because their thinking is steeped in poverty, want, misery, failure, and defeat. (Napoleon Hill. Think and Grow Rich!)

Wishing you peace and well being as you confront your thinking and learn the art of changing your mindset.

PS: Remember to hold the ones you love just a little closer and tighter this week._/l\_

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Book list


	The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America by David Whyte

	Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation by Parker J. Palmer

	The Fifth Discipline The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization by Peter M Senge

	Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future by Senge, Scharmer, Jaworski, Flowers

	Turning to One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future by Margaret J Wheatley

	The Thin Book of Naming Elephants: How to Surface Undiscussables for Greater Organizational Success by Sue Annis Hammond How to surfance undiscussables for greater organizational success.

	Wisdom of Listening by Mark Brady

	The Art of Happiness at Work by Dalai Lama

	Practicing Peace in Times of War by Pema Chodron

	Mindfulness and Meaningful Work by Claude Whitmyer [Ed]

	Making Friends with Death by Judith L. Lief

	Leadership Is an Art by Max Depree

	A Testament of Hope by Dr Matin Luther King Jr and James Washington

	Choice Theory: A New Psychology of Personal Freedom by William Glasser

	The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living by Dalai Lama

	Spectrum of Ecstasy: The Five Wisdom Emotions According to Vajrayana Buddhism by Ngakpa Chogyam

	Awake at Work: 35 Practical Buddhist Principles for Discovering Clarity and Balance in the Midst of Work's Chaos by Michael Carroll

	Handbook for Constructive Living (Latitude 20 Books) by David K. Reynolds

	Influence Without Authority by Allan Cohen, David Bradford

	Simple Abundance by Sarah Ban Breathnach

	The Highest Goal: The Secret That Sustains You in Every Moment by Michael Ray

	Tibetan Sound Healing by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

	work from the inside out by Nancy O'Hara

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