Most of what we worry about never happens. Yet, worrying takes up much of our time, energy, and attention. We are often victims of our own thoughts. We automatically assume those thoughts are true, when in fact they often are not. As a result, we fill our lives with unpleasant mind state.
The good news is that we do not have to be stuck with whatever thoughts arise, we can change them. In Forty Things I Wish I’d Told My Kids, John Allcock presents the essentials of mindfulness―not as something special and exotic, but as practical, down-to-Earth principles for living and overcoming the “thought” trap.
Written in clear, simple language, Forty Things I Wish I’d Told My Kids is for anyone interested in living a fuller, happier life―including parents, young adults, and readers of Anna Quindlen’s A Short Guide to a Happy Life or H. Jackson Brown’s Life’s Little Instruction Book.
ABOUT JOHN ALLCOCK
John Allcock has succeeded big-time, many times. He’s also failed big-time. But what seemed at first like some of the worst things in his life were what began to wake him up. Those failures and difficulties helped him realize something important: although he, like all human beings, sought happiness, he actually was looking in exactly the wrong direction. The failures also led him to embark on a lifelong study of mindfulness—and to want to pass on what he learned, first to his kids, and now to the rest of the world.
John graduated from Boston College (with highest honors in philosophy and political science) and Harvard Law School (cum laude). He works as a trial lawyer at DLA Piper, where he is also the Global Co-Chair of the firm’s Intellectual Property Group and serves on its Executive Committee.
He is a longtime student of Jack Kornfield, Gil Fronsdal, Thich Nhat Hahn, and other meditation teachers. He and his wife Cheryl have developed a curriculum in mindfulness for schools that is currently in use in Sea Change, a small private school in Del Mar, California
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