Learn About - and Change - How You Think

One if the key tool in strengthening our stress management capability is managing our thoughts. If we think positively, we're likely to enjoy positive results. Negative thinking, on the other hand, can lead to outcomes we don't want.

Positive and negative thoughts can become self-fulfilling prophecies: What we expect can often come true.
If you start off thinking that you'll mess up a task, the chances are that you...

All of us may feel stressed or overwhelmed at times; this is a normal part of living. However, these feelings, whether acute or chronic, may be excessive and unhealthy. Sometimes you may recognize you are under stress when you feel that you are being "pushed" beyond your stress management coping skills, and sometimes you may not even be aware of it. In any case, you should seek professional stress management help if the effects are sufficiently severe as to cause significant...

Executive coaching can help to determine whether you are more of a leader or more of a manager and assist in gaining the insight and self-confidence that comes with knowing more about yourself. The result is greater impact and effectiveness when dealing with others and running your business.
We are going to take a look at the executive coaching techniques in assessing the different personality styles in leadership versus management, the attitudes each have toward goals, their basic...

Psychological tests have been used to determine what characteristics are most commonly noted among successful leaders.
This list of characteristics can be used for executive coaching purposes to help managers gain insight and develop their leadership traits and skills.
The increasing rate of change in the business environment is a major factor in this new emphasis on leadership.
Whereas in the past, managers were expected to maintain the status quo in order to move ahead,...

Ways To Cope With Stress

A vital aspect of health is stress, or rather how well you tolerate it.  If you're alive you will have stress, that I can guarantee.  What matters is how you react to it.

Everyone knows that stress causes disease.  I know I don't need to list all the diseases it causes, as everyone knows it has some responsibility in all the big killers, and also contributes to the lesser ones.  There probably aren't many diseases that...

How can I stop my panic attacks today, so many of us have asked that same question over and over again.

Panic attacks have been described as an onset of apprehension and fear. Your breathing becomes erratic, you have a tightening of the chest thinking perhaps you may be having a heart attack. Sweating is another symptom for panic attack, fear of losing control, feeling lost and sometimes embarrassed that it is happening. People tend to sometimes take drugs or drink alcohol or even...

In today's social climate stress is something that we just tend to accept as a part of our home and work environment. We are taught that one must learn to relax and take charge of one's reactions to external events, people and factors. In this way one will find peace and remain in proactive control over the emotions that tend to get the better of us throughout our day. However, dealing with stress in an effective and efficient manner goes beyond simple relaxation techniques and into the...

I lived in Los Angeles during the big 6.7 magnitude Northridge earthquake of 1994. Waking up to my bed being lifted and shaken was one of the scariest experiences of my life. It was as if a giant had picked me up and dropped me again.

After quickly dressing and getting out of the apartment, checking in with neighbors and notifying children of our safety, my husband and I decided to take a long walk around the area to see what damage had occurred.

We were amazed to find...

Emotion is a natural phenomenon in life, which means that every human has emotions. Man is a spirit; he has a soul and lives in a body

Your soul is the seat of your mind, will and emotions while you relate with the intellectual world with your body. What affects the soul affects the body, hence the need to overcome your emotional setbacks

You must first understand that the emotional setback is not to destroy you but to strengthen and make you a better person. You cannot be...

Statistics from the Federal Highway Administration indicate that in January of 2009 Americans drove 222 billion miles. While this figure was down from the previous year, it still represents a lot of time spent behind the wheel – and a lot of opportunity to become frustrated, angry and stressed. And roadways full of drivers without the Emotional Intelligence (EI) skills to cope with those negative emotions is a prescription for disaster.

James and Nahl (1) identified...