THE WARRIOR MINDSET FOR CAREER SUCCESS

In today’s competitive environment, you need a distinct advantage to advance in your career.  It’s not enough to have a good GPA.  That may get you a good first position.  It’s not enough to go to a good school. That may get in with a good first company.  It’s not enough even to be there for a long time.  Seniority doesn’t count for much these days.  You need a warrior mindset.

The warrior mindset does not mean to be combative or confrontational.  At least, not all the time.  It means to have the mindset of knowing what is important to fight about, and to be willing to fight all out about it.

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3 Ways That Creatively Managing Stress Saves Your Relationships

Stress really ruins your health. The effects of stress on the body are potentially deadly. But it also ruins your relationships. The stress you are under has an effect on every person you come in contact with. But especially your closest family and friends. And not in a good way.

One component of stress management that is rarely mentioned is creative thinking. By strengthening your creative thinking, you can see more solutions to your stressful situation.

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Change Your Time By Not Changing A Thing

As our society becomes busier and more demanding, people find they have less time but more responsibilities. Work demands more productivity, families have more scheduled activities, and even your hobbies need to be put in your appointment book as “scheduled activities.” How can you manage your time, when your time is managing you?

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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 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 Evolution Of Stress Management Coaching

Most stress management programs focus on your internal reactions to stress.  Things like deep breathing, relaxation, visualization – these are great, if all you want is to feel better.  However, the stress is still there.

Not dealing with the stress is like focusing on your feelings instead of dealing with the mugger waiting in the bushes to beat your ass when you step outside.

You need a program to train you to attack stress, while at the same time you are preparing yourself internally to stand up and go toe to toe with it.  You defeat the bad health effects of stress and make yourself physically and emotionally powerful.

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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.