By now, you probably know the benefits of meditation, but they cannot be overstated. Research-backed benefits range from stress and anxiety reduction to lower blood pressure and improved sleep.

While meditation can benefit you in your daily life, did you know that it can also help you at work? There is evidence that meditation can help you become a better leader and benefit you in both your business and social life.

Meditation Improves Your Focus

Your attention span and ability to focus have big impacts on your ability to perform your job well. As a leader, people need things from you constantly. From employees to vendors to your superiors, it's hard to focus amid the constant influx of email, phone calls, and people coming to your office.

Time management can be difficult and lead to untold stress.

If you regularly meditate, however, you can hone your skills to be laser-focused on your task and reduce your risk of distraction. This helps your memory, your ability to focus on a task, and makes you more organized and less scattered, helping your employees follow what you need.

It Decreases Your Stress Levels

Leading a business or organization is stressful. However, what makes you a good leader is how you deal with that stress. A good leader will practice mindful leadership and won't allow stress to impact those around them.

This is difficult, and trust me, as the CEO of Australia’s longest running child talent agency, I know. There are so many things that can cause stress levels to spike during the working day that it can be extremely hard to remain calm and level-headed. But for me personally, a little meditation during the day has worked wonders for my stress levels and made me a better listener.

It Boosts Creativity

Think about when you have your best ideas: chances are, it's when you aren't actively thinking about work. In the shower, laying in bed at night, during your workout.

People's greatest ideas often come when they are relaxed. Meditation gives you the ability to get into that relaxed state of mind and increases the chances you'll have a creative epiphany for that problem that's been plaguing you.

Meditation Improves Relationships

Having a good relationship with your employees is integral in being a successful leader. Good relationships with customers and offenders are also important. Meditation can boost your mood and increase your ability to connect with others.

At a minimum, it will reduce your stress and give you the tools to manage it. If you can manage your stress without letting it impact those around you, that is a significant step in the right direction to improving your relationships with those that you work with.

Meditation Can Benefit All Parts of Your Life

Meditation can benefit both your personal lie and your professional life. The positives of learning to meditation often spill over into your professional life and your relationships with others.

It's also a dedicated time for self-care and is easy to do—it doesn't require any special equipment or space. Simply find a quiet place and a few minutes to focus on clearing your mind.

Adam Jacobs is the incredibly busy Managing Director of Bubblegum Casting and Hunter Talent. He works with some of Australia’s biggest brands, media properties and agencies to secure talented children to work in Television, Film and Modelling roles. They’ve recently launched an office in LA as well.