Coaching Call – Why and How to Manage Stress to Work and Live Better
Why Manage Stress
I noticed how much the constant stress affected my thinking and my peace of mind. I know I’m not alone in how I react to stress. When I’m calm, I’m brilliant and wise. I enjoy solving complex problems and can disconnect once work is over. When I’m stressed, I get indecisive and can get stuck in an infinite loop of worrying. It’s like half of my brain is occupied by worrying and I only have the other half of my brain to do anything productive. It’s almost impossible to focus or rest enough each night to start afresh the next day. Sound familiar?
Two Helpful Articles
This is why it’s so important to master stress management. While we cannot avoid stress at work or in life, we can learn to recognize it early and minimize its impact on our work effectiveness and overall peace of mind. There are many articles on how to manage stress. Here are two I recommend
- 8 Tips from Help Guide on the importance of managing stress and how to do it
- 10 Tips from Web Md to prevent and manage stress
Group Coaching Call on How to Manage Stress
While there are many tips out there on how to manage stress. It’s harder in practice than in theory. Here is the 37 minutes of a coaching call on this exact subject.
From the call, the group also discussed five practical resources that you may also find useful.
- The Daily Stoic book. There is also a site. Thanks Alec.
- Here’s the meditation tool I’m trying and like – Headspace. Headspace also has a free Netflix series (You can also go to Netflix and just search for Headspace)
- Book by Ryan Holiday – The obstacle is the way.
- Positive Intelligence – free self assessment – The self assessment which takes 5 min is interesting. I’ve taken the full course.