What I Got, What It Will Do For You

WHAT I GOT:

STRESS JUDO is a 6 month training program.  Each month, you receive:

• 2 full length MANUALS (1 on each of the 2 topics for that belt level).
• 2 CHECK LISTS of the main ideas for the Manuals
• 2 ACTION STEPS so you can use the training immediately
• 2 MIND MAPS for a graphical representation of the training

We also use SOCIAL NETWORKING the right – and efficient – way:

• TWITTER to broadcast postings and new articles
• FACEBOOK to get to know you personally
• NING as our social network platform

WHAT IT WILL DO FOR YOU:

• The first belts train you to attack stress and remove the EXTERNAL pressure
• The next few belts train you to stay calm and strengthen your INTERNAL ability to stand cool and firm in the face of stress
• The upper belts help you master the INTEGRATION of internal and external control, so stress will never again be a bother in your life.

WHAT I WANT YOU TO DO NEXT:

Go to STRESS JUDO: Black Belt System and sign up for the training.  You will have the YELLOW Belt materials delivered straight to your Inbox, even if it’s 3 am where you are (or where I am).

If you aren’t ready for the training, then sign up for the 2 FREE reports, including the exclusive Stress Does NOT Make You Perform Better.

Because the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, and expecting a different result.  And that is stressful.

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 Ways To Handle The Physical Symptoms Of High Blood Pressure

High blood pressure can lead to heart attacks, stroke, and death.  You should have your blood pressure checked by a doctor on a regular basis.  If the doctor prescribes medication, you should take it as prescribed.  The main reason for having your blood pressure checked by a doctor is that there are very few physical symptoms of high blood pressure. And the ones you do see are often confused with other causes.

Some of these symptoms are: headache, dizziness, blurred vision, drowsiness, and nausea.  All of these can be explained by some other cause.  Sometimes people are under stress so long that they can’t distinguish the bad health effects of stress  anymore.  Which means that the high blood pressure is left untreated, and ti gets worse.  And stress elevates blood pressure.  But you can use aggressive stress management techniques to handle the stress, and lower your blood pressure.

Here are 5 ways to aggressively attack stress to lower your blood pressure:

1. Use creative problem solving to handle stress better.  The natural reaction to stress is “fight or flight.”  You can creatively come up with more solutions.
2. Use meditation appropriately.  Meditating can relieve some of the inner effects of stress and make you feel better. But it does nothing to eliminate the stress.  Use meditation to not only calm yourself down, but open your mind to creative possibilities.
3. Develop your own stress management process.  Any stress management system that you learn was developed by someone else for someone else’s problems.  Take the techniques that work from each system and create your own.
4. Stay in shape.  Stress weakens the various systems of your body, which gives you less energy to fight the stress.  By staying in shape, you can fight the stress, not just tolerate it.
5. Use an effective time management system.  Stress from impossible deadlines is bad.  Stress from interruptions is worse. But having a time management system that not only permits, but demands, that you reject time-wasting interruptions, can relieve much stress in your life.

If you don’t do handle stress, your high blood pressure will get worse.  But knowing what to do to relieve stress can help lower your blood pressure.  With the lower blood pressure, you can reduce the chances of heart attack or stroke.  Of course, there are other causes of those conditions that also must be looked at.  But removing stress as a cause can focus your efforts.

Handling stress involves internally handling your reactions, but also externally eliminating the stressor.   Using this dual approach might be the most effective way to reduce or eliminate the signs symptoms of panic attacks and lower your blood pressure.  Probably meditation or visualization is part of what you are doing to relieve stress.  But this is not enough.  That’s like helping a quarterback learn not to feel bad when he throws an interception.  Wouldn’t it be better to teach the quarterback to simply not throw interceptions?  Using a comprehensive stress management system will eliminate the stress and give you lower blood pressure.

STRESS JUDO – the comprehensive stress management system

What Causes High Blood Pressure?

High blood pressure can be caused by many things.  You can inherit it – or a tendency toward high blood pressure.  It can be caused by cardiovascular disease or certain medications.  It can be caused by stress.  That’ s the focus of this article.  Stress-related high blood pressure and how to reduce the stress, using STRESS JUDO.

There are as many stress management techniques as there are human beings on earth.  Some people like deep breathing and meditation.  Others prefer taking action straight at the stressor.  Still others prefer to avoid the stressor.  STRESS JUDO, our program, teaches you to do all 3 – and 9 other components – to defend against the bad health effects of stress, to attck the stressor,  and to evaluate how efective your performance was.

One neat aspect of STRESS JUDO is that you don’t have to get all hung up on the definition of stress or on the signs of stress ofr any of that.  If you feel stress, you will know instantly what part of STRESS JUDO to begin with

STRESS JUDO begins with creative problem solving, so you have the tools the attack the stressor.  You next move to time management (to be able to plan and manage your strategy of stress elimination), creative thinking, and self examination.  By now you can analyze a stressor, develop a plan to attack, creatively think of possibvilities and ramifications, and can look at yoiurself and the situation to judge whether what you are doing is correct.

The next levels – or belts – of STRESS JUDO strengthen your inner will and self-discipine, coaching, and staying fit and the proper use of meditation.  You finish at the Black Belt level, which teaches you to access energy at anytime necessary, and how to develop your own stress management system.

By combining and practicing these techniques, there is a possibility that you can reduce high blood pressure due to extrernal forces.  STRESS JUDO also changes yor outlook on life.  People are no longer assumed to be adversaries. Work is not presumed to be your own private hell.  STRESS JUDO will give you confidence to handle life’s toughest stress situations.

Get your FREE reports on the 12 components of a complete stress management system. There is also a report on how stress damages your performance.

Do People Think Before They Write This Stuff?

I have a Google Alert set for “stress management” and similar terms, so I can see what other people are writing about stress management.  And consistently, we see the same thing: do yoga. Do tai chi.  Meditate.  Seriously, people?  Do you want your doctor pulling “downward facing dog” if your blood pressure suddenly drops to 0/0 in the middle of your operation?  Or do you want your lawyer sitting cross-legged on the table when the prosecutor puts the note with your fingerprints on it in your face?  Has any corporate road warrior, getting grilled by a VP looking to redeem a failing career by sinking yours, ever responded to stress by thinking “happy thoughts”?  Is this how you want a professional in you place your life or your money to decide what to do to relieve stress?

Hell no!

Stress management is actually taking control of a stressful situation and turning it to your advantage.  It’s using creativity, time management, emotional and spiritual control and focus, meditation (yes, but in conjunction with the other components), and internal will to attack and destroy the stressor.

I love yoga.  I have meditated for hours.  I have done tai chi, as well as other martial arts and kata meditatively.  But those are NOT stress management anymore than playing Mario-Kart on the Wii is Indy-car racing.

Check out STRESS JUDO for an aggressive approach to stress management that lets you take control of stress.

And if this approach isn’t for you – well, spend your money on stomach medicine and sleeping pills to relieve the pain of your next anxiety attack, and I feel sorry for you.

The Kick In The Head That Inspired STRESS JUDO

Hi all.  I added a post to the STRESS JUDO blog that explains how STRESS JUDO was inspired – by a kick to the head!

You can check it out HERE.  Thanks for coming to this blog.  I appreciate your time, and if there is anything we can do to improve this blog – just leave a Comment.  Every comment is read personally and taken to heart.

Meditate Your Way To Promotions And Raises By Managing Stress

Meditation by itself is not stress management.  On the other hand, it is difficult to manage stress without understanding meditation principles and practice.  And using meditation to manage workplace anxiety helps you keep your cool in stressful situations.  And being the coolest head gets you promotions and raises at work.  And, being the one that falls apart under stress – no promotions, no raises.

 

Now, we don’t mean you have to sit on the desk and contemplate your navel in the middle of a meeting.   You can use meditation principles to get your emotions and breathing under control.  You can use meditation focus to maintain your poker face in the light of extraordinary news.  Meditation doesn’t just counter the bad health effects of stress. It is the ability to keep your head under stress that makes you stand out to management.

 

Here are 5 ways to use meditation to manage stress and get a raise:

1. Use deep breathing to center yourself.  Meditation breathing centers on drawing air deep in the lungs, which has the physiological effect of clearing your head and getting some control over out of control emotions.
2. Focus on your priorities.  Meditation trains you to focus.  Kicking in this aspect of meditation will allow you to keep focus during stress, when other people are being distracted by less important items.
3. Tap internal energy whenever you need it.  Stress wears you out.  It fatigues you.  It breaks down your resolve and your will.  Meditation gives you techniques to access your internal energy, chi, or whatever you call it.
4. Maintain your focus in the worst of conditions.  Contrary to popular belief, meditation was used by samurai to prepare themselves for battle.  One philosopher talked about being able to meditate inside a brass bowl being struck by a dozen hammers.  Now, imagine that concentration inside of a noisy conference room of bustling warehouse.
5. Meditation suppresses the “fight or flight” reaction.  Under stress, your body instinctively reacts by preparing to fight the stress or run from it.  By using meditation to suppress this reaction, you open up the possibilities of dealing with stress.

 

Not using meditation to be able to focus your mind and emotions means that you are actually fighting two battles in a stressful situation: the stressor and your own mind.  If you fail on either of these battles, you fail.  And failing is not how you get promoted.  Unfortunately, unless you add meditation to your system of what to do to relieve stress, you don’t have anything else to rely on.  You may not think you have the time to begin meditation.  But what’s working for you now?

 

Meditation is an integral part of a comprehensive stress management system.  Probably techniques like focus skills and time management in the workplace are part of what you are doing to relieve stress.  But this is not enough.  That’s like a quarterback practicing passing, handing off, and running, but not how to remain calm in the face of a blitz.  Using a comprehensive stress management system which includes meditation throughout will eliminate being overlooked at work and give promotions and raises.

 

DO YOU WANT MORE INFORMATION ON THIS EXCLUSIVE UNIQUE STRESS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM?

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, go to What to do to relieve stress.  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 has 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.

Using Time Management To Aggressively Attack And Destroy Stress

Your career is suffering from not using time management aggressively to manage stress. You are missing promotions and raises, because you are spending your time defending against stress instead of attacking it.  This pain is caused by using time management basically the wrong way.  Too many time management in the workplace seminars teach you to just make To Do lists and then prioritize them.  A proper time management system will not only prioritize your tasks, but allow you to defend your To Do list against interruptions and crises, since those are a huge source of stress.  Nothing you have been doing can alleviate this pain.  This is why you have been passed over for promotions and raises.

Using time management within a complete stress management system can really make you stand out at work.  The type of leadership that is being looked for today is the type of leadership that prevents problems.  Using time management to prevent workplace anxiety instead of just reacting to it keeps the workplace running smoothly.  You can learn a new way to manage your time and your tasks, to prevent stress.  And when you prevent stress, you are spending more time finding the opportunities in stressful situations.

Here are 5 ways to use time management to turn stress into opportunities.

1. Recognize that time management is really self-discipline.  Time flows forward, no matter what you do.  Time management is really disciplining yourself to stay on task and to be able to resist interruptions and temptations.
2. Embrace the Pareto Principle.  This principle says that 80% of your results will come from 20% of your efforts (or time or customers or any number of variations).  So constantly review your work, to focus on the 20% that gives you the 80%.
3. Use the SMART method of goal setting: Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Tangible.  This keeps your efforts focused.
4. Use the TF30 method to prioritize your schedule. Tasks that must be done Today, tasks that must be done by Friday, and tasks that must be done within the next 30 days.  This method will easily allow you to reject distractions that are less important than whatever you are working on.
5. Delegate properly.  Pick the proper person, and explain clearly what is to be done.   Set a date certain to be completed, and set periodic review dates to monitor the progress.

If you don’t use aggressive time management, your being passed over for promotions and raises will get worse.  Without a time management system that removes stress, your time will continue to be chewed up by fighting stress.  This means that the bad health effects of stress will be magnified by the bad emotional effects of stress.  You think it will be painful to change your time management system.  It will be much more painful not to.

You have seen how time management is an integral part of a comprehensive stress management system.  But many times, your time management system becomes a source of stress instead of part of what to do to relieve stress.  This is because most time management systems do not allow you enough time to handle your tasks and any interruptions.  That’s like planning to travel by plane in winter, but not considering that flights might be delayed from snow or ice.  Using a  comprehensive stress management system which includes time management throughout will eliminate missing promotions and give you more recognition at work.

 

 

DO YOU WANT MORE INFORMATION ON THIS EXCLUSIVE UNIQUE STRESS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM?

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, go to What to do to relieve stress.  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 has 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 Hurts. Using Creative Problem Solving To Achieve Recognition At Work Helps.

Nothing good happens in your life if you can’t tap into your creative problem solving to eliminate stress, especially in the workplace.  You don’t get the promotions you are due.  You don’t get the recogniti0on you should.  Your motivation in the workplace, and at home, and everywhere else – suffers..  And so far, nothing you’ve been doing – especially to combat stress – has done anything the change this.

But creative problem solving is the key to handling stress.  Using creative problem solving not only attacks stress, but can be used in other areas to make you stand out at work.   Workplace anxiety is replaced with workplace enthusiasm and leadership.  You can learn creative problem solving very easily, by using a few exercises and practicing it daily.  This can eliminate the pain caused by lack of recognition because as you gain control of how you handle stress, you gain the attention – in a positive way – of management.

Here are 5 ways to use creative problem solving to handle stress in the workplace:

1. Define the problem or stressor better.  By having a clear definition of the situation, the solution may be obvious, thus eliminating stress.
2. Define the goals to be achieved in detail.  This will focus your efforts, so there is no stress of wasted effort.  It wil also help you know when you are done, so you can eliminate the stress of always working on something.
3. Be free to brainstorm.  Many people are reluctant to voice an idea, because other people may not think much of it.  Since a key starting point of creative problem solving is to get as many ideas as possible on the table initially, you are free to out forth your wildest ideas.
4. Gives you more options than just “fight or flight.”  It is this reaction that causes all the negative effects of stress.  By having more options, your body does not go into that state right away.
5. Get other people on board early.  Another big cause of stress is having all the responsibility fall on your shoulders.  By asking others to participate in creative problem solving of the situation. They may be more invested and easier to convince when – later on – you ask them to help out.

If you don’t develop your creative problem solving skills, your status as “turned down again” will get worse.  This is because you have not done anything to stand out, to separate yourself from jhe pack at work.  Other people who do show some – any – creativity will be promoted ahead of you, whether they deserve it more than you or not.  The bad health effects of stress will get worse, because your body will go into “fight or flight” reaction mode much quicker, over much smaller stressors.  You may think you don’t have creative problem solving skills.  But ignoring the skills you do have will be much worse.

Creative problem solving is an integral part of a comprehensive stress management system.  You probably have already attended seminars or read books on stress management.  And they may talk about creative ways to handle stress.  But that is not enough.  That’s like having the coach tell you how to deal with the pain of striking out, instead of having the coach improve your hitting skills.  Once you get your hitting up, you have to deal with the pain of striking out much less often.  Using a comprehensive stress management system which includes creative problem solving throughout will eliminate missing out on promoti0ons and give you raises and recognition at work.

DO YOU WANT MORE INFORMATION ON THIS EXCLUSIVE UNIQUE STRESS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM?

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, go to What to do to relieve stress.  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 has 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.