Creative Thinking And Increasing Workplace Productivity

The pressure and stress focused on increasing workplace productivity is getting to be almost unbearable: More companies are feeling that they have to be profitable at all costs, and that cost is usually your time and health. And usually that stress is compounded by the feeling that there is nothing you can do about it. There is something you can do, and it is can affect your personal specie directly.

To learn more on this topic, go to increasing workplace productivity.

Creative Problem Solving For Increasing Workplace Productivity

Increasing workplace productivity is a major source of stress in the workplace. Management is under pressure to get more done in less time at less cost. Workers are under pressure to learn new technologies, or new procedures with out-dated technologies. The resulting stress can be crippling, physically and emotionally.

For more information, read Increasing Workplace Productivity

Managing The Stress Of Credit Card Debt: Creative Problem Solving

Credit card debt problems are very easy to get into.  Even with new laws and regulations, it seems like credit cards companies are still very willing to give you a virtually unlimited supply of credit cards, which translates into a virtually unlimited supply of credit.  Or call it by its real name: debt.  So how can you manage the stress of too much credit card debt?

For the rest of the article, click stress management.

3 FREE Courses Added To STRESS JUDO Sign-Up!

Hi all. We have added 3 FREE courses for you to get when you join the STRESS JUDO Community.

2 of these courses are free for a limited time, so if you are interested, you should get them as soon as possible. Also be aware that if these owners start charging for the courses and you buy through our links. we might get some fee.

So, here are the courses.   You can get access to them by joining the STRESS JUDO Community.  When you join, you also get 3 EXCLUSIVE reports.

1. Simpleology 101 by Mark Joyner: The simple science of getting what you want. A superb time management and goal setting system.

2. Simpleology 202 from Mark Joyner: The simple science of real money and financial stability. Money education like you’ve never experienced.

3. The Ultimate Success Program from Mark Hendricks: Get a success mindset from one of the best success teachers you will ever meet.

PLUS, you get the exclusive STRESS JUDO: The Newsletter. This month’s topic is LEADERSHIP and STRESS, is 58 pages of ad-free content, and features 12 guest articles (so that you get all perspectives on stress management).

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Your 58 page Newsletter On LEADERSHIP and STRESS Is Available! And Bonus Report!

Hi all. Well, STRESS JUDO: The Newsletter – August 2010 edition is up on the website. The topic is LEADERSHIP.  It is 58 pages, no ads, and 12 guest articles (so you get different perspectives and a full range of information).

Get the Newsletter – and a BONUS report: 500 Diabetes Recipes – by joining the STRESS JUDO community for FREE

BUT – you have to join the STRESS JUDO community for FREE at stress management tips 

This month’s topic is STRESS AND LEADERSHIP.
Here is the Table Of Contents, so you can see the articles.

What is STRESS JUDO?

TOPIC ARTICLES:
THE SUCCESS MINDSET

YELLOW BELT
LEADERSHIP THROUGH CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING
Manage Your Business Better by Applying These Creative Problem Solving Steps
By Justyna Bizdra
TIME MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP
Leadership – 6 Signs of Procrastination
By Duncan Brodie

ORANGE BELT
CREATIVE THINKING AND LEADERSHIP
5 Reasons Why Creativity Matters to Leaders
By Kevin Eikenberry
SELF EXAMINATION AND LEADERSHIP
Ten Key Characteristics of Effective Leaders
By Billy Arcement

GREEN BELT
GOAL SETTING AND LEADERSHIP
Goal Setting at the Leadership Level
By Bryant Nielson
FAITH AND LEADERSHIP
A Woman Leader’s Self-Esteem – 7 Self-Esteem Issues Faced by Women in Leadership
By Consuelo Meux

BLUE BELT
COACHING AND LEADERSHIP
Leadership Coaching – 10 Ways to Inspire Your Employee Attitudes
By Mike Krutza and Jodi Wiff
CHANGING YOURSELF AND LEADERSHIP
How to Be a Leader When You Are Not the Boss
By Stephen J. Blakesley

BROWN BELT
FITNESS AND LEADERSHIP
Leadership Goals For The Self
By Terry Vermeylen
MEDIATION AND LEADERSHIP
Mindfulness Meditation Leadership Development – The Art of Non-Achievement
By Maynard Brusman

BLACK BELT
ENERGY AND LEADERSHIP
Leadership Courage – 3 Ways to Assess Your Organization’s Energy Level
By Mike Krutza and Jodi Wiff
HABITS AND LEADERSHIP
The 5 Habits of Leadership
By Alison Johnston and Richard A Johnston

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Stress Management – The STRESS JUDO Way

STRESS JUDO is a unique and exclusive method of managing – no, attacking stress.  Rather than focus on how you feel or helping you relax, STRESS JUDO lifts to a higher plane where you don’t have to worry about these things.  STRESS JUDO uses the principles of judo to attack the stress in your life and destroy it.    Judo uses the strength of your attacker to defeat the attack.  Judo uses locks and holds t0 neutralize the attacker.  STRESS JUDO applies these principles to stress, and pretty soon, you are mastering stress and turning it back on itself.

There are 6 belts in the STRESS JUDO stress management system.

YELLOW Belt teaches you the skills of creative problem solving and time management.  This way, you can solve the problem causing the stress, and then createthe time to defeat it.

ORANGE Belt teaches you creative thinking and self inspection.  You have moved to a higher level of dealing with stress: anticipating it.

GREEN Belt focuses on goal setting and inner strengthening.  By setting goals, having the inner fortitude to stick with your plan, and the previous skills, you are now determining what stress you allow in your life.  You can also cause stress, because stress is often how you advance in life. 

BLUE Belt is the level at which you learn to create your personal stress management plan, and how to be your own coach.  Now you are incorprating stress into your life like any other event.  Your stress reactions have moved from the dangerous “fight or flight” to anticipation and excitement.   The bad health effects of stress should be lessening.

BROWN Belt is mastery of body and spirit.  Stress weakens your body and reduces your ability to fight stress.  You know can stand up to stress, both externally and internally.

BLACK Belt is mastery of stress.  At this level, you learn how to create internal energy instantly, to erase the fatiguew that ling term stress can cause.  You also learn how to create your own daily stress management regimen, which is personal to you.

Too many stress management systems are built around only 1 of these aspects.  STRESS JUDO applies all of these equally, to give a complete system.   It will change how you approach stress.  It will change how you approach problems, relationships, and trouble in your life.  And it will change how people approach you!

STRESS JUDO Newsletter + Bonus Report (BP, Mediation)

STRESS JUDO has put the January newsletter on line.   It has a guest article, link to a free report on blood pressure and meditation, and a recommendation to a free success mindset program (where will you find something like THAT?).

If you want to receive future newsletters and bonuses, please sign up for the free STRESS JUDO: Overview

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Eliminate All Doubts About Your Ability to Stand Up Under Pressure and Stress

Vince Lombardi said “Fear makes cowards of us all.” And the essence of fear is doubt in your ability to stand up to the situation. Because if you had no doubt, you would have no fear. When you are under stress, all your doubts and fears become magnified. Eliminate your doubts and that stress reduces.

Very few stress management programs focus on the doubts you have about handling stress. Sure, they give you some stress techniques (“take deep breaths”), but these don’t hit your inner core to bolster your will to stand up to stress. A good stress management system will develop your will and your discipline. The anxiety help you need will be inside of you.

Here are 5 ways to eliminate doubt in the face of stress:
1. Learn to set goals. For too many people, a goal is really just a dream. A goal requires definition, measurability, and attainability. The goal should be to eliminate the stressor.

2. Learn to say no to distractions. When distractions interrupt, measure them against the goal of eliminating your stress. If the interruption doesn’t assist you in reaching your goal, turn it away and get to it later.

3. Develop detailed plans to attain the goal. Having detailed plans will make it easier for you to stick to the plan, which is reinforcing your discipline. Discipline is a key component of removing doubt, as you have the assurance that you will know what to do and actually do it.

4. Focus on having faith in your ability to accomplish your goals. Not really religious faith, but just that core belief that you can set a goal and achieve a goal.

5. Pretend that you have faith in your ability to accomplish your goals. This is not a question of self-esteem. It is a question of whether you will push through the sticking points. Pretending that you can do this will actually cause you to do it.

Stress is relentless. Stress is impersonal. Stress just pushes and pushes and pushes. Take high blood pressure symptoms, for example. There aren’t any, until the stress pushes your blood pressure over a limit. Then it could be fatal. Since the stress and the high blood pressure are silent, your stress management system needs to handle more than just panic attacks treatment. It needs to handle prevention.

Just having faith and confidence is not enough. You have to have the skills to identify the stressor. The ability to plan how to handle it. The discipline and faith to know you will stand up to it. And the humility to learn from the experience.

Learn the 12 components of a comprehensive stress management system in your free exclusive copy of STRESS JUDO: The Overview. Rick Carter has been a trial attorney for over 15 years, and has studied martial arts for over 24+ years. He combined the principles of judo with the best stress management techniques he had learned inside the courtroom and the arena, to create STRESS JUDO. Also available is the EXCLUSIVE and completely unique STRESS JUDO Black Belt System. Be a Black Belt in attacking and eliminating stress from your life.

Did You Know Joshua Bell – violinist – Was A World Champion Video Game Player?

Hi, Rick Carter here, for STRESS JUDO.

Right now, I am watching LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER and violinist Joshua Bell is performing. Mr. Bell is from Bloomington, Indiana, where I went to law school (and met my wife-to-be, who happens to be a musician herself). And Joshua Bell would play from time to time at Indiana University.

So what does this have to do with the post’s title?

Actually, nothing at all.

Well, other than an explanation of why I am watching the performance.

But during the intermission, the announcer was talking about Joshua Bell’s eye-hand coordination and his athletic-like movements when he plays. He said that Joshua was discussing his early childhood playing sports. And then he said that Joshua Bell was the 1996 World Champion “Crystal Caliburn” champion! So I looked up the Joshua Bell official homepage (to get the videogame correct, because I’ve never heard of that one!) and it turns out that Joshua Bell – who played his first Stradivarius at age 12 – was also the Indiana State Junior Tennis Champion for the 9 and 10 year-olds age group!

Wow!

So what’s the point of this post?
It is not to brag about a world-class classical musician. If I wanted to do THAT, I’d write about my personal friend classical saxophonist OTIS MURPHY!

No.

The point of this newsletter is to point out the neccessity and the virtues of being well-rounded, to be better able to handle stressful situations.  STRESS JUDO teaches you 12 components of stress management.  The program is designed so the 12 are integrated with each and support each.  Eventually, you will simply use the 1 or 5 or even 12 most appropriate to the situation.  And you won’t worry about anxiety attack symptoms or the bad health effects of stress ever again.

So check out STRESS JUDO to help you lead a stress-free life – a life where you welcome stressful situations.

Thanks.

Rick Carter Indianapolis, IN

5 Tips For Preparing a Household Budget Before a Layoff

Surviving job loss means more than just surviving financially. But, realistically, if your finances tank, then all the other areas of your life become that much more difficult. Layoffs devastate your finances and lifestyle. Your budget goes nuts. Your family panics and spends all the savings. Your retirement goes. Your house goes. Your life goes.

But what if your company told you that on a specific date, you were going to be laid off? Wouldn’t you get your finances in order? That would make the income stopping less hard. It would make the transition from no income to next income a little easier. The reality is: in this economy, the only thing you don’t know is the specific date.

Here are 5 things you can do right now with your finances, anticipating job layoffs, to get your finances in order.

1. Streamline your cash outflow. Look at what you spend money on. Look at what you plan to spend money on. Pick the things that can be deferred, or cut out altogether.
2. Know your family debt and how to service it. Far too many families have no idea of how much money they owe and how much they spend each month on paying the debt. Even fewer families know how close they are to paying it off.
3. Use your vested savings last. You have put a lot of time and money into long-term investments, like your house and your retirement plan. Tapping into those things for everyday money is way too expensive. Develop a household budget that has does not require you to access that money, ever.
4. Eliminate luxuries. Easy to say, hard to do. First thing is get the family together and have your family define what a luxury is. Or, if they want to keep the luxury, what they will cut out to save it.
5. Prioritize your spending. Look at the plan you developed in number 1 above, the budget in number 3, and the definition of luxuries in number 4. Use this to pay the most important things first. Use this to say no to demands on your family’s money, even if the demand comes from your family.

This is an unpleasant subject. It is difficult to face the fact that you may get laid off. It is difficult to face the anxiety attack symptoms that hit when you think about it. But it is more difficult to watch your retirement money get spent for today’s food, and to see the taxes and penalties you pay on that. It is difficult to see the FORECLOSURE notice on the house that you went to work everyday for.

Having a plan and strategy for dealing with job loss can help you with the stress management attendant to a layoff. It won’t make it go away. It won’t prevent a layoff, if the company is committed to laying you off. But planning for a layoff – even one you think is unlikely – can have positive repercussions throughout your life.

Picture your life when stress is not a concern and where you are the leader in stressful situations. To see exactly how you can do this – and for 2 FREE stress fighting reports – go to http://StressJudo.blinkweb.com/overview.html STRESS JUDO was developed by Rick Carter, a trial lawyer and martial artist. The courtroom has emotional and intellectual stress, and the dojo and fight ring have physical and psychological stress. It was to handle these stresses that STRESS JUDO was developed, to give you a fighting chance against stress, to turn stressful situations into opportunities. STRESS JUDO teaches you the 12 components of successful stress management, and how to use the energy of the stress to successfully fight through and win.