How Can I Fight Stress? Like A Champion

I have always taken an aggressive approach to stress and specifically, to eliminating it.  I got this from my early training in martial arts.   The goal of martial arts is to be in a state of peaceful-coexistence with your neighbor.  If your neighbor is attacking you, then the goal shifts to getting to the state of peaceful-coexistence as quickly and efficiently as possible.

So I have applied this to stressful situations.  When you are under stress, the goal is to get to a stress-free situation as quickly and efficiently as possible.   The typical approaches to stress management – meditation, exercise, taking a long walk – simply do not do this.   They are components of how to get there.  But, a black belt martial artist will not rely only on his devastating right hook or his crushing left thigh kick, but instead has an arsenal of techniques to draw upon.

Just so, handling stress is not only about feeling stress-free. It is about being stress-free.   And the best way to do that is to get rid of the stress, by personal, high-quality stress management coaching.

So the answer to “how can I fight stress?”  Stress Judo Coaching.   With 3 exclusive reports, showing you our proprietary system for immediate stress reduction.  For your FREE coaching session, click on CONTACT US.

Thank you

Rick Carter

THE Answer To “How Can I Fight Stress?”

Too many stress management programs focus on the question “How can I relieve how stress makes me feel?”  This is an important question, because stress makes you feel miserable.  And the bad health effects of stress make you feel bad for along time after.

However, simply focusing on how you feel internally really doesn’t do anything about the stress that caused the bad feelings in the first place.  What if you took up the question “How can I FIGHT stress?”  Answering this question will help you eliminate stress, not merely manage it.

Stress Judo Coaching.   The exclusive coaching program that helps you answer “how can I FIGHT stress?”  And win.

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.

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.

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

Some Jokes To Combat Work Anxiety

STRESS JUDO has a component that trains you to think like a comedian, because sometimes laughter is the best stress management technique. So here are some silly jokes, to help with work anxiety.  Feel free to add your own (keep them clean!) in the COMMENTS section.  Maybe we will use them in the next newsletter!

Click on Work Anxiety for the jokes (such as they are…)

Work Anxiety. Now Claiming Women, Too.

An interesting article on health related issues from work related stress and women.  Specifically, work anxiety for women increases likelihood of heart attacks, strokes, and clogged arteries.

What can you do about? Click work anxiety for information on how STRESS JUDO can help you eliminate stress.

The Stress Of The Best Weight Loss Program

Is there such a thing as “the best weight loss program?”   Wow.  It probably stresses you out just thinking that you have to find the best weight loss program.

But – surprise! Surprise! – there is such a thing.

And you can read all about it (it includes a part about defending your life – betcha never thought of that, did ya?) at weight loss fitness solutions.

Stress And Time Management: Liberating Not Restrictive

Many people think of time management as micro-managing your day by filling up every minute with a tedious list of A-B-C prioritized tasks.  Actually, time management is self discipline.  It’s the discipline to say no to distractions and interruptions, and stay focused on the task at hand.  Stress management is more than just meditating and exercising.  It is eliminating the stressors in your life.  Stress and time management are actually methods for liberating your life, not restricting it.
Here are 7 tips for using stress and time management to free yourself: click stress and time management