Control Your Stress and Enjoy Your Life

Control Your Stress and Enjoy Your Life.

• How to create new models for managing stress and discard ineffective old habits
• Practice in looking creatively at old problems in new ways
• The place of risk-taking in stress management and the benefits of becoming an intelligent risk-taker 

   

• What stress is and what it is doing to your body
• The primary reason stress is causing you so many problems
• Why stress overload is so widespread in today’s workplace
• Three reasons people are burning out
• The high cost you pay for not managing stress

• Too little stress and too much stress are both problems – finding the optimal level
• The warning signs of stress overload – what to do and what not to do about them
• Your worst enemy in the war on stress: denial – how to combat it
• The stages on the road to burnout
• The five stages of stress

• A three level model for stress intervention and management
• The power of a take charge attitude – what it can do and how to develop it
• Three choices you always have in combating stress

• How to communicate your needs, state your limits, and say “NO”
• Essential principals of managing your conflicts successfully
• How to respond to criticism in ways that keep your stress at a minimum

• Three characteristics of people who survive stressful times and how to adopt these to combat your own high levels of stress
• Rational thinking – what it is and how you can use it to manage your stress
• Four key strategies to help you change what you think about your stressors

• The relaxation response – how to use it to reduce stress and improve health
• What to eat when you are under too much stress and why
• How to use exercise to help you survive stress and perform at your peak
• The value of developing a sense of humor and putting plenty of play and laughter into your schedule
• A holistic approach to managing your stress for greater quality of life