D-Stress
Friday, February 20, 2009
In my blog Optimism & Staying Focused, I mentioned Meiron Lees who is an executive coach and trainer that I was introduced to last year. When we last caught up for coffee in January and having told him about my changes with Adobe, Meiron handed me a copy of his book.With D-Stress, Meiron takes us through 7 resilience builders to manage your stress:
- Transforming your Thought Attacks™
- Asking the right questions
- Focusing on the now
- Telling a different story
- Changing the labels
- Observing the feeling
- Developing a sense of gratitude
There were a few points I had mixed feelings about, for instance, I subscribe to Tim Ferris's view on stress - it is really distress (the negative) and eustress (the positive). As such, Meiron really focuses on distress in his book.
Having said that, D-Stress is a good amalgamation of lots of points I believe strongly in, including:
- "Your thoughts about a situation determine the way you feel" and "you can choose how you perceive the situation to be". I picked up the essence of this point years ago that I blogged about in Awkward Conversations , and it was again raised in Jack Welch's book Winning - it's your attitude stupid!;
- The ability to look for alternatives - I'll blog shortly about BATNA but I picked up the essence of this in defensive driving where you practice 'seeing' your options by looking up and opening your peripheral vision instead of focusing on the obstacle in front of you;
- Focusing on what you can do vs being caught up lamenting what has changed or what you have lost which is a key point of Who Moved My Cheese; and
- "Thoughts of scarcity create feelings of stress". In sales for example, if you have a pipeline with at least 3 times as many prospects than you need in order to meet your goals, you feel far less pressure, and ironically, when you feel less pressure, you'll close more deals!
You can download the 'sampler' here and buy the book online here.
Labels: Books, Personal effectiveness
posted by Lee Gale @ 8:20 PM,
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