Do you feel yanked around by your work, your life, or both? Does the mountain (the pile), in front of you seem insurmountable? Does your list of “to do’s” choke and marginalize what you have already accomplished? Do you feel overwhelmed? Stress is unavoidable. But we can complicate the problem. We get involved in exacerbating...Read More

What makes us the most powerful creature on earth?  It’s our imagination!  With our imagination we are able to think into the future.  We create, plan and manipulate our environment. Because it is powerful, it also has the ability to pollute our lives and cause personal damage in the form of stress and anxiety. Add...Read More

I talk a lot about empowering people to live life on purpose.  This deals with your direction – your “why” for living.  It also has an intimate connection to the stresses we feel on a day-to-day basis. Understanding our purpose for living and aligning our schedules accordingly helps relieve some of the stresses we experience...Read More

Four Ways To Handle Adversity, Anxiety, and Fear Take a look around.  What do you see and hear?  Relentless change, increasing expectations, escalating global confusion, and economic uncertainties create an ample amount of stress and anxiety in our lives. Just think about what keeps you awake at night.  “What if__________”, and you fill in the...Read More

What’s True And What’s Myth? Sometime ago a USA Today Snapshot (2008), revealed the satisfaction level executives had with their jobs. Job/Satisfaction Level Finance – 68% Human Resources – 65% Marketing – 63% General Management – 61% Sales – 54% The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index confirmed those earlier findings. They have polled literally millions of adults...Read More

“Not everything that is face can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” James Baldwin (American author) The concept of biological stress is a fairly recent study. Anxiety has been around for millenniums, but stress is a recent conception. In the late 1950’s Hans Selye began to identify and document stress....Read More

(The Combustible Component Of Stress) The stresses of life come in all shapes, sizes, and colors. It doesn’t take much to trigger it. Checking the weather leads to stress. How about the stock market, or other news events? And if the news wasn’t stressful enough, who is the genius that came up with that rolling...Read More

The answer to that question is simple to understand, but not as easy to execute. Some of the most important things in life are accomplished when we have a sense of urgency. And some of the greatest stresses we endure are experienced when we are bombarded and ambushed by the urgencies of life. What’s the...Read More