Signs Of Stress: Mental

Do you know the signs of stress? Not just feeling stress. Because waiting until you feel stress is like deciding to fight the enemy after they’ve come through the gate and over the walls. Your body and your mind let you know that stress is coming.

Stress makes your body go into “fight or flight” reaction. There are countless systems and methods to minimize the effects of this once it kicks in. But what if you got ahead of the stress? What if you could cut off the reaction before it started?

Here are 5 signs of stress that affect you mentally (as opposed to emotionally or physically):
1. Memory problems. Stress acts a silent, internal distracter. Part of your mind is literally always focused on the stress, thinking about it, trying to figure it out. This sometimes results in you forgetting little things (like how to tie a tie) or big things (a missed appointment). If you notice this happening, start looking for stress that you aren’t dealing with.
2. Concentration problems. Since part of your mind is tinkering with the stress, your concentration is not 100% on whatever task you are trying to focus on.
3. Judgment problems. Many times, to escape the pain or unpleasantness of the stress, you will unconsciously make self-destructive decisions. More drinking, overeating, and promiscuous sex are all poor judgment decisions that people make when under stress. If your behavior in these areas increases, start thinking about attacking your stress.
4. Worry problems. A little bit of worry is natural, and even good. It protects you from rash decisions. But if your worry is starting to overwhelm your decisions or your actions, it is a sign that stress is increasing in your life.
5. Uncontrollable thoughts problems. Your thoughts rise up, like bubbles from the bottom of the lake. And you, when you are not being pushed by stress, can pick and choose the thoughts you want to entertain or follow up with. But when your thoughts come faster and uncontrollably, and you are losing the ability to rein them in, take time to step back and find the stress in your life that is contributing to this.

Think back to the last big fight you had with stress. Wouldn’t it have been easier if you could stay focused? If you weren’t fatigued? If you could think clearly, and not be distracted? Wouldn’t it have been easier if you had fought the stress before these signs kicked in?

A stress management system that (kicks in) immediately on seeing one of these or other signs of stress will give you a better chance of fighting through the stress successfully. A system that has components specifically focused on strengthening these areas is more likely to make the stress feel – well, stressless. Having the right tool for the job is a lot easier when the job tells you what tool to use. Learn to recognize and react to the signs of stress.

STRESS JUDO COACHING is a 6 step comprehensive stress management system, designed to train you to attack stress and transform it into opportunities.

How Can I Fight Stress? Well, Since You Asked…

Too many people ask for tips on managing stress.  Or on how to relieve stress.  This is the wrong approach.  Because this method leaves the stress in place.  The correct question is “how can I fight stress?”  Because fighting stress means that you intend to beat it.

For a comprehensive article on fighting stress effectively, please read stress and the workplace

And for probably the most effective and efficient way to train you to fight stress, too please look at stress management coaching.

How I Almost Ruined My Career to Succeed

I was watching a video from the TED conferences.  The video was on creativity and how education kills creativity. Interesting and pretty funny. But it got me thinking about how I – at the beginning of my career – deliberately set out on a course that probably should have killed it, for the purpose of actually succeeding. 

So I wrote a blog post about it–> stress management coaching.

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.

Time management techniques for increasing workplace productivity

Increasing workplace productivity is easily defined: getting more work done in less time. Now, unless you have developed some kind of machine that slows down time or allows you to stop time while you do work, you are going to have to become more efficient in one of those two areas. This article is focused on using your time more efficiently.

To get the rest of the article, 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 the rest of this article, read 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

5 Steps To Managing Workplace Stress

Workplace stress management is a unique form of stress management. This is because workplace stress can have consequences that last well into your time at home or even your vacation. It also has stress management techniques that are adapted to the workplace. Desk yoga is one example. But confronting your boss about an unreasonable deadline is another.

For the remainder of the article: Managing workplace stress

Do You Want Free STRESS JUDO COACHING?

One day, I was throwing kicks at the karate dojo (school). I was trying to kick very high, which made lose my balance. A lot!  So my sensei (teacher) watched me for a few kicks - and falls – and then said, very casually, “Turn your left out this way before you kick.”  I did it, and suddenly I wasn’t falling!  So I said “That’s it??!!”  And he said “That’s what you pay me for.” 
 
That sums up coaching.  Not cheerleading, although motivation is a component.  Not training, although teaching is a big part.  Not game-planning, although helping you see the “big picture” comes with the territory.  Coaching is all of these, with the added element of training you to master the insight to do all of this for yourself.

 

Personal coaching, which is what STRESS JUDO COACHING offers, means you and your coach (in this case - me!) take a journey, where the path leads to personal transformation.  It doesn’t have to be some peer-into-the-soul-of-the-Universe revelation (although, as revelations go, those are pretty cool).  For some people, it means that you are a different person from when you started.  For others, it means you are a completely different person from when you started.  For me, it meant a person who took the combative excellence needed in the courtroom and fighting ring and fashioned into a training program to help people fight the daily stresses and anxieties that keep them from seeing the joy in their lives.

 

Click for the main page for STRESS JUDO COACHING.

 

This page explains that the coaching is personal - meaning one-on-one with the coach and focused on you personally - built within the framework of the progressive training of the belt system.  It explains the resources, the belts, the tools you receive at each level.  It explains the price.  It explains all the free stuff you can ask for.
 
But it cannot give you the experience and feel of coaching.  It’s like boxing or dancing (I have done both).  No matter how many rounds or recitals you observe.  No matter how many “behind the scenes” documentaries you watch. No matter how many boxers or dancers you talk with.   None of these can give you the experience of seeing a punch coming at your head and ducking under it, or of boxing (yeah, you’ve never seen me dance, have you?).

 

So STRESS JUDO COACHING will coach you for free, so you can decide whether there is value there or not for you.  At the bottom of the information page is a Contact Form, where you can request a 30 minute coaching session.  You will have your own experience to decide that coaching is the thing that can take you to that elusive next level.

 

So please go to STRESS JUDO COACHING

 

Fill out the form.
Get coached for 30 minutes.
Then get coached a lot.
 
I look forward to meeting you.

 

Sincerely,
Rick Carter
Indianapolis, IN
STRESS JUDO COACHING
Turning stress inTO OPPORTUNITIES

Work Anxiety: Stress Coaching

If you have work anxiety so bad it interferes with your day, you might want to check with a medical or emotional health professional.  Coaching can help sometimes also.

Click work anxiety stress coaching for more information.