1. Managing Change & De-Stressing
Beth Terry, CSP
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2. “Sweet are the uses of adversity.”
Shakespeare

3. Four Truths
1. Change is inevitable. 2. Change is uncomfortable. 3. Change is necessary 4. Perception about change is a personal choice.

4. The Change Curve New Status Quo New & Better Status Quo New and worser
Morale
Productivity
Efficiency
Think Differently
Positive Perceptions
Positive Communication
Focus on Healthy Choices
Take care of yourself
The Valley of Despair
Change Curve courtesy of Harold Hook
Used by permission

5. Successful Strategies

6. Think “Different”

7. When you are overwhelmed…

8. Turn Off Your Automatic Negative Pathways
“We can be very sloppy and careless about what we allow to oppress/depress us.  Even a series of little things can be oppressive if they are cumulative, and that’s usually what gets us.  We are generally pretty good at handling the big stressors in life.  We are not so good at handling cumulative smaller ones as we let them grind us, unless we learn to sort out two things:  (1) Our response to these stressors and (2) The reservoir of positivity we build to deal with negativity.”
Dr. William Larkin on Building NeuroPositivity 

10. How to Choose?
“Our neuro-positive response to stressors can be simple, if we have learned it and it is wired-in.  Get to a positive feeling place, if only a slight shift.  Go to a strength and ask your strength, “How do I manage this from my strength?”  Just asking the questions increases the shift, because the strength can begin to talk to you, but only if you get out of a negative place. Only if you make a slight shift to a positive place.” Dr. Larkin

11. Re-Frame What if… I make it work! I screw it up! I succeed! I fail!
They love me!
They hate me!

12. What can I do…
RIGHT Now?

14. Critical Thinking What ….? Why? What do I expect…? Why?
Consequences…? Why?
Consequences of Inaction? Why?
Important? Why?
Why do I think this?
Is it worth it? -- Why?
For more on Critical Thinking See Beth’s book, “Thinking About Thinking”

15. Positive Perception “No matter where you go, there YOU are!”
Buckaroo Banzai
Focus on the UP Spiral
Give yourself a fighting chance!
“We don’t see things as they are, we see things as WE are.”
Anais Nin

16. 3 E’s that Change Perception
Exposure
Experience
Expectations

17. Create a clear context for the messages you wish to impart
Communication
Desired End Result
What’s in it for them?
How?
Why?
Create a clear context for the messages you wish to impart

18. Tell us what you need Use “I” words Neutral words
Avoid putting others on the defensive
Options, solutions, possibilities …
It would help me if…
I’d appreciate it if…
We might want to try…
It works better when…
It’s difficult when…
I need…
Here’s a thought…
Let’s see what we can do…

19. Focus on Being Healthy

20. Emotional Health
Be Responsible
Take Control

21. How do you see it?

22. Mental Health
Everything is
Relative
Including your relatives….

23. Ya Jus’ Gotta Laugh!
Gif courtesy of Imgur
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24. Physical Health Exercise Healthy food Drink water Sleep
Supplements like Magnesium help as well…

25. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act, It’s a Habit.
Aristotle

26. “What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.” Richard Bach
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27. “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” Charles Darwin

28. Mahalo!
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