Erika Jones, CFO, CCTAProfit First Professionals · Certified Fractional CFO and Profit First Professional

5 Ways Meditation Improves Your Business Mindset

22 Jul 2026 · 1 min

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In this YouTube video, CFO Erika Jones explores how regular meditation can transform a professional’s mindset and boost business performance. She outlines five specific ways meditation enhances work life—sharpening focus, reducing stress, improving emotional regulation, unlocking creativity, and supporting better decision‑making. Throughout the discussion, she offers practical tools for busy executives: guided‑meditation apps such as Calm and Insight Timer for short, timed sessions; journaling as a reflective practice to process thoughts and gain clarity; Thích Nhất Hạnh’s book The Miracle of Mindfulness as an accessible introduction to mindfulness philosophy; and Transcendental Meditation (TM), a mantra‑based technique that she personally trained in and recommends for deep relaxation. Erika interweaves brief anecdotes about her own experience with TM and group meditations, and she emphasizes how integrating these practices into daily routines can lead to measurable improvements in productivity, leadership presence, and overall well‑being in the corporate environment.

meditation and mindfulness, talking about apps like Calm and Insight Timer are great for guided and timed meditations. Journaling, like you said, great way to process thoughts and offer clarity. Thích Nhất Hạnh, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, has many books with beautiful meditations, and I can totally recommend The Miracle of Mindfulness, a great introduction to that. But you yourself, you've done some—
TM, which is Transcendental Meditation.
Yeah, can you talk about that?
Yeah, I went through the training. My wife and I both did it. My conclusion, I'm not too familiar with other forms of meditation, but it's just a variant. I think any form of meditation is good. What I liked about TM is it's mantra-based, rephrase. So it's just you say the same words in your mind over and over again. But other forms of meditation could be just pay attention to your breathing, the center eye. All those things are just trying to give your focus to one area so that other things can flow out without being considered. It's the reduction of active thought. It's not easy to meditate. I was gonna say, yeah, group meditation ironically has been easier for me. There's— that means there's usually someone guiding you through the process. I also use YouTube. I'll log in, say, you know, pull up a meditation, and they walk you through it. So that's powerful.