Do you become stressed when you don’t succeed in achieving what you want? The very reason why failure and setbacks damages so many egos, breaks so many hearts, and steals so many dreams may lie in how resilient you are to pressure.
Resilience is characterized as being able to adapt to, and bounce back from, [...]
Do you have too much to do, too many ideas, and an abundance of calls and emails to return? Do you feel overwhelmed and just don’t know where to start? Do you sometimes doubt you abilities and hence put off making client calls? Do you tackle the easy tasks first and [...]
How am I going to get through all this work?
I don’t know what will happen if I fail?
What happens if we don’t meet the sales budget?
I hope that I don’t get sick!
If this is a familiar train of thought then you are in trouble!
Pessimism has been found to not only increase stress, but also increases [...]
Isn recent breaking news, it was reported that:
1. Labor chief Sto. Tomas (Philippines) quits due to stress and workload [1]
2. Stress is causing soaring sickness rates among UK teachers [2]
3. Twenty-five percent of university students have sought counselling in the UK to help them cope with the
stress of exams (finals) [3]
4. [...]
Many years ago people woke up with the sun rising, ate breakfast from produce that was grown or raised on their land, went to work and physically moved their bodies all day, stopped to eat, worked some more, then went to sleep as the sun went down.
In today’s world, we get woken up with an [...]
Are you still trying to motivate people by trying to make them happy, talking them up, encouraging them, or being really positive? Hard work, isn’t it? The reason these approaches don’t work (or don’t work for very long) is because ‘external motivation’ rarely impacts our true influencing factors.
In the movie, ‘The Pursuit [...]
Economic uncertainty has brought panic into many businesses.
Financial Planners are stressing over poor returns to their clients.
Engineering groups are being pushed to do more with fewer resources.
Sales are down across many retail industries.
When people panic, they move into one of the two ‘F’ phases: ‘Freak out’, or ‘Freeze up’.
Both of these extreme responses can have [...]
The difference between a gloomy winter’s storm and a beautiful afternoon shower is your perspective.
Your mental perspective determines whether you overcome your challenges and build success or simply lie down, complain, and become stuck in a rut. Having the desire to become
more, achieve more or give more – instead of putting up with what [...]
A few years ago, I remember was watching my two sons playing. At the time, Raphael was 2½ years old and was focused on putting together his favourite jigsaw. Zackary was 1 year old and was studying a plastic ring that had a soft toy hanging off it. They were in the [...]
In today’s world, we are working longer hours, have no time for breaks, grab food on the run, are too
busy to exercise, get broken sleep, and are walking around exhausted. Is modern work-life slowly killing us?
Many of the diseases that we die from are NOT due to bugs or viruses that we ‘catch’, [...]