Your looks are suffering from not using time management properly to manage stress. Those dark circles under your eyes from lack of sleep? That recent weight gain from fast-food dinners and not working out? Shortness of breath from panic attacks? This is caused not only by the stress, but by not having the time to actually address and get rid of the stress. And it’s not just workplace anxiety that needs to have time managed. Every area of your life demands your time. Every area of your life has stress. Every area of your life suffers if the stress overwhelms the time you have.

Using aggressive time management can relieve help these problems. Managing your time in the face of stress helps you stay on your diet or your fitness routine. This goes a long way towards managing the physical symptoms of anxiety attacks. Having a stress management system that uses time management to force time to be healthy will actually make fighting stress all the easier.

Here are 5 ways to use time to stay focused on health in the face of stress:

1. Make time for fitness and diet priorities over distractions. By utilizing aggressive scheduling, you can say “no” to time wasting distractions, and schedule them to be addressed at the proper time.

2. Be accurate in your scheduling. Don’t put aside 20 minutes for the 20 minute workout, if it takes 30 minutes to get to the gym and 30 minutes to change.

3. Delegate non-priority tasks. If the task can be done by someone else, assign it to them. Just don’t give the perception that they are doing it so you can go workout! Do it tactfully.

4. Set aside time for planning. Too much stress is caused by reacting to situations. By setting aside time to analyze and plan, you save time in the long run.

5. Rearrange your workout schedule. Maybe move it from early morning to after work. Or from daily to 4 times per week.

If you don’t do set aside time for your health, the answer to “how does stress affect health” will be “worse and faster.” The signs symptoms of panic attacks can cause many health problems. If the stress is allowed to take up your working out time, the stress will affect your health much worse. Which will reduce your ability to fight stress. Which will make the stress worse. And so on. And so on. It may be difficult to get your time under control. It’s a lot harder trying to get your time under control in a stressful situation and feeling lousy about it.

Time management is an integral part of what to do to relieve stress. Too often, it is presented as the solution to stress management. Granted, it is a large part of the solution. But this is not enough. That’s like saying sticking to your diet will eliminate anxiety attacks. It will make them easier. But it won’t make them go away. And it won’t let you find the opportunities that lie in every stressful situation. Using a comprehensive stress management system which includes time management throughout will eliminate the bad effects of stress on your physical appearance and actually make you better looking! 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.

5 Steps To Manage Stress And Anxiety Attacks By Self Examination

The physical symptoms of anxiety attacks can be devastating.  The shortness of breath. The feeling of terror and panic.  The high blood pressure, chest pains, and headaches.  And nothing you are doing is preventing these attacks.  You react to stress with panic and anxiety.  This is not good, is it? 

Having a strict self examination or self assessment tool to see how effectively you are dealing with stress can be the best way to manage stress and prevent panic attacks.  By using self examination to alleviate or prevent the panic, you will in fact be better looking!  Those dark circles under your eyes from lack of sleep will disappear.  That weight gain from not attending to your diet will melt away.  Your smile will return.

Here are 5 ways to use self examination to manage stress and eliminate panic and anxiety attack symptoms:

1. Know your emotional and intellectual strengths.  Know the internal resources you have to draw on, to attack stress.  Use frequent self-examination to see what strengths are most effective in different situations.
2. Know your emotional and intellectual weaknesses.  Know what internal resources will let you down, and therefore what ones you should avoid calling on.  Set your ego aside and realistically see what areas you are weak in and need to improve, especially under stress.
3. Know what other people are judging you on.  Seriously.  You are being judged all the time, especially at work.  This can add to your feeling of workplace anxiety, over and above the normal deadline and overwork stresses.
4. Be aware of your specific personal goals.  In any stressful situation, you have to deal with the goals set by many people around you.  Knowing your goals will eliminate that internal stress that occurs when you finish a project and feel unsatisfied because you reached someone else’s goals.
5. Know the tasks you should be delegating to others.  Taking on the wrong work is probably more stressing than taking on too much work.  By self-examination, you will know what tasks you need to delegate and therefore not put stress on yourself.

 

If you don’t do self-examination concerning how you handle stress on a regular basis, you will continue to suffer anxiety attacks.  And they will continue and they will get worse.  This is because you have no knowledge of how to react to stressful situation, because you have no idea of how you react to stress.  Your looks will just spiral downhill, as you eat stress foods, stop working out, and lose sleep.  You think it will be painful to set up a plan of self examination.  It will be much more painful not to.

 

Self-examination is an integral part of a comprehensive stress management system.  Probably looking for the signs symptoms of panic attacks is part of what you are doing to relieve stress.  But this is not enough.  That’s like a football coach charting out the opposing teams; defense, but not figuring out how to defeat it.  Using a comprehensive stress management system which includes self-examination throughout, will eliminate those side effects that harm your looks and make you better looking.

 

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 <a href=”http://stressjudo.blinkweb.com/overview.html”> What to do to relieve stress</a>.  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.

 

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.

How STRESS JUDO Would Have Saved Miss California

If you saw the Miss USA pageant, or the way-over-the-top coverage after, you saw Miss California answer a question from Perez Hilton about gay marriage.  Now, let’s set aside the REAL controversy (how did Perez Hilton become a “celebrity judge” at a beauty pageant?????) and look at Miss California’s answer.   Specifically, how could STRESS JUDO have helped her fashion a response that would have won the pageant.

STRESS JUDO trains you to look at a stressful situation – and THAT question in front of a national audience, with the Miss USA title on the line pretty much defines “stressful situation” – first with Creative Problem Solving (Chapter 2).  What is the problem presented?  What alternatives can you use?  In this case, Miss California would have seen that Perez Hilton didn’t really CARE about the answer – he just wanted to ask the question. 

STRESS JUDO has other components – time management, self-examination questions, meditation, fitness – that don’t apply to this situation.  But the Daily Practice component (Chapter 13) would have trained her to face stress and remain calm and focused.  Now, don’t get me wrong.  She was calm and was focused, but more on her poise, not on the question situation.  She held it together and did not suffer any anxiety attack.  Daily practice would allow her to see the stress and respond to the stress; in this case, a judge who wanted to get a question ou there, not necessarily to hear an answer.

So how should she have handled the situation?  By realizing that Perez had achieved his goal (asking the question), so she in fact had NO stressful situation.  She could have used Creative Thinking (Chapter 4) or Instant Stress Management (Chapter 9) to side-step the stressor and give one of those non-commital “I love puppies and world peace” that Miss USA contestants are so famous for giving!

Again, the point here is how could STRESS JUDO have helped Miss California.  It would NOT have given her an answer.  It would NOT have made Perez Hilton happy.  But STRESS JUDO training would have allowed Miss California to identify the problem, the stressor, and a solution that removed stress from her.

Click here for more information on what to do to relieve stress and get the free report on the 12 components of a comnprehensive stress management system.

(* we make no guarantee or representation that you will be either Miss California or Miss USA *)

The STRESS JUDO website is using the complete power of the Web to create its community. Not just a blog. Not just Twitter. But integrating each tool into a comprehensive community-based social network focused on STRESS JUDO members. Check out the FIRST stage at the ABOUT US p/e of the site:
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This uses;
1. Ning.com as the private social network;
2. FaceBook.com for its powerful relationship tools; and
3. Twitter.com for rapid efficient notifications.

Try it out and let us know how you like it.
An exclusive downloadable manual describing this system is coming soon.

Creative Thinking To Eliminate Stress And Get Envy And Respect At Work

People rarely associate creativity with the workplace.  With artists.  With music.  With authors.  But not with the office.  But trying to handle stressful situations without a touch of creativity can lead to loss of respect and missing out on promotions.  This leads to losing your motivation in the workplace.  Nothing you have been doing is solving the situation.  This is why the pain of being passed over at work is still there.

 

Using creative thinking to handle stressful situations can eliminate this pain.  Creative thinking, in addition to creative problem solving, can help you also to be recognized as an innovative thinker at work.  And innovative thinkers are promoted and respected.  Being promoted and getting more money goes a long toward alleviating the bad health effects of stress.  You can learn creative thinking.

 

Here are 5 ways to use creative thinking to get respect at work:

1. Brainstorm more responses to stress than “fight or flight.” Your body’s reaction to stress Is to fight it or flee from it.  Using creative thinking to develop other solutions, like “win-win” possibilities.
2. See stressful solutions from alternate perspectives.  Use these new perspectives to develop empathy for others’ situations.
3. Develop alternate paths to achieve goals.  By having several paths to achieve the goals, then disruptions to the path will be more easily tolerated.
4. Be better able to explain your positions.  Creative thinking allows you to work solutions in detail, which can respond to criticisms.
5. Develop elegant solutions, not just brute-force solutions.  Eliminating stress and at the same time enhancing or improving the situation turns the stress into an opportunity for advancement.

 

If you don’t use creative thinking when you are under stress, missing out on promotions will get worse.  Management wants to promote people who can remain cool under stress.  And they want to promote people who can bring vision to the company.  If you aren’t demonstrating creativity, you aren’t alleviating workplace anxiety.  You might think it will be to develop your creative thinking.  But without creative thinking, your approach to stress is lacking.

 

Creative thinking is an integral part of a comprehensive stress management system.  Separating what to do to relieve stress from what to do to advance your career is not necessary.  They can and should be developed and used together.   Separating them is like putting your slice of cake and the icing on different plates.  Using a comprehensive stress management system which includes creative thinking throughout, will eliminate being overlooked and give you promotions and raises.

 

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 <a href=”http://stressjudo.blinkweb.com/overview.html”> What to do to relieve stress</a>.  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 JUDO community site set up

Hi all.  We have created the STRESS JUDO Community site.  Please check it out.  It is completely barren!  How’s that for a twist – a website with NO sales material, no ads, no pitches – no nothing!  A site that is open and waiting for YOUR content. 

Our promise to you is to keep it free of spam, offensive posts, anything off-topic.  This site is to allow the members of the STRESS JUDO community to be a real community – to discuss the system with each other, without fear of getting sold to, or flamed.

Seriously.  I am sick of joining sites and blogs that are nothing but pitch-fests for the companies that run them.  The STRESS JUDO Community site is set up and run to allow members of the community to discuss these topics without fear or intimidation.  So check it out, and return often.  There’s nothing there right now.  But there will be.  We promise.

Happy (stress-free) Easter, Everybody!

Easter is a relatively stress-free holiday.  Color some eggs.  Buy some chocolate. Go to church.  About the only stress comes from what to wear and what order to visit the in-laws.

But almost any holiday is stressful for a father who doesn’t have custody of his children.  From wondering if he is even going to see his kids, to the hassle of trying to co-0ordinate times and pickup points with an argumentative ex – even with the best laid-out holiday parenting time schedule, there can be stress.

So for THIS holiday – and every holiday – do the following:

1. offer to help out a father.  Volunteer to pick up the kids.  Make your home available for time.

2. when the kids are there, don’t bad-mouth the ex.  Let the kids enjoy their time with dad.

3. when the kids are there, don’t bad-mouth dad!  No matter what happened between THEM, these kids are the result.

4. help dad if he needs court or police intervention.  “How can she get away with that?” Because no one is willing to pony up the money to hire the lawyer to take her to court, that’s how!  And she knows it!

And, to put OUR money where our mouth is:  For the month of April 2009, anyone who purchases STRESS JUDO: The Master Manual gets a complimentary copy of The FATHER’S RIGHTS Library (don’t order form this page.  Just check it out).  Click on the underlined words for a description of each.  Purchase STRESS JUDO, and we will email you the download link for The FATHER’S RIGHTS Library (we will get your email address from the PayPal notification, so there is nothing more that you need to do).

This is for you to use.  Or to give to a father you love, who deserves more time with his children.  And the STRESS JUDO can show you what to do to relieve stress.  It’s a win-win!

Purchase STRESS JUDO now.  Get The FATHER’S RIGHTS Library as soon as we get your PayPal notification.

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.

 

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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.