Salzberg, one of the three founders of Insight Meditation of Barre, MA and Cambridge, recommends a one month course of meditation as a way of achieving mindfulness, or wise attention.  Mindfulness enables one to pay attention to each moment unburdened by worries about how the past might have been different or obsessing about how the future might be managed.  Through the ability to be present in a non-judgmental manner in each moment of one’s life, one is capable of overcoming our ‘add ons’ which condemn us to repeat dysfunctional patterns of thought and action, limiting our ability to love ourselves and therefore, others.  Finding the gap between the triggers and the reactions is the key to taking charge of our lives and being there for ourselves and the others in our world.  Moment by moment, day by day, we can get outside of our reflexive, negative emotional baggage, and bring our best selves to each day and each moment.  It’s all we are ever going to have, so wasting time with anger, self-criticism, negativism, etc is not the way to manage the one life we have.  Good notes should provide a basis for further reading, understanding, and meditation in order to achieve mindfulness in my life.