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Simple Physical Routines for Successful Stress Management

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Recognizing my own stress levels rising, I’ve been asking the groups in my sessions to use the chat function to describe how they’re feeling. 2020 has been a year of unprecedented stress for all of us and it’s only June. 2020 has been a year of unprecedented stress for all of us and it’s only June. No screens in bed.

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How Do You Score on the Business Stress-O-Meter?

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After hearing his list, I said to him that it reminded me of that list of stressful life events where you add up the scores of each event that is going on in your life to determine how much stress you’re dealing with. That stressful life events list is called the Holmes-Rahe Stress Inventory.

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Mindful Mondays: What’s on Your De-Stress Checklist?

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In a meeting with a group of CEO''s last week, we were talking about how to show up at your best under conditions of high stress. It was a list of activities you could do either indoors or outdoors that would lower your stress. The goal is to get in 100 point points worth of de-stressing activities a week.

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Mindful Mondays: Dealing with End of the Year Stress

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In 1979, Kabat-Zinn created the first Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program for patients with all sorts of chronic conditions at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Mindful Mondays Jon Kabat-Zinn mindfulness stress management' Kabat-Zinn is a hero of mine and when I met him at the Wisdom 2.0

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How to Keep Your Head Clear in the Weeks to Come

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It’s no secret that most of us – no matter which candidate we’re voting for – are feeling a lot of anxiety and stress around what might happen this week. When people are that scared and stressed, they’re in fight or flight hyper-drive. Oxytocin – This is the neurochemical of connection.

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Five Ways for Leaders to Get Out of Chronic Fight or Flight

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First, is that being in chronic fight or flight causes you to think, make decisions, and manage relationships in suboptimal ways because, as stress increases, the prefrontal cortex of your brain – known as the executive functioning center – shifts from intentional self-regulated responses to reactive automatic responses.

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Is Your Approach Parent-Child Management or Adult-to-Adult Leadership?

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That can be stressful. Sometimes when we’re under stress we regress and try to hold on to the way things used to be even if they no longer work. The changes around how and where work gets done that have taken root in the past two years are really kind of breath taking when you stop and think about it.