1. Maximize Balance ~ Avoid Burnout
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2. Reality Is Perception Sources of Stress The event Your inner appraisal
Three phases of response
The event
Your inner appraisal
Your body’s response:
fight or flight
Perception Is
Reality
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3. The Stress Curve 1 2 3 4 Optimum Stress death
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4. Short term Stress = adrenaline rush
Initial “high” – then the drop
Interferes with clear judgment
Interferes with enjoyment at work (and in your relationships)
Decreases effectiveness of fine motor skills (more mistakes!)
Harder to deal with frustrating events
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5. Long term Stress = chemical overloads
Fatigue
Health, energy & morale decline
Thought processes begin to falter
Memory lapses
Motor skills and accuracy are less reliable
Decision-making suffers
Risk becoming addicted to stress for the “buzz”.
Inappropriate reactions to high stress:
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7. Choose Your Input
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8. CHOOSE Physical Input Colorful food Dance and Hydrate! stay young
+ Magnesium & other important elements in supplements ….
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9. “We are what we repeatedly do
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
Aristotle
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10. CHOOSE Emotional Input
Source: DailyInfographic.com
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13. CHOOSE Healthy Relationships Permission to relax Laugh
House: Inhaler Video
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14. Choose WHAT IF… (it actually turns out good!) DETAAAAAACH
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15. CHOOSE Mental Input
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16. Reframe
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17. Don’t Stress! Ask what you can do
Right Now….
Don’t Stress! Ask what you can do
RIGHT NOW
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18. Gratitude
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19. Reality Check Critical Thinking What am I doing? Why?
What do I expect?
How long?
What will it take?
What will I do if it doesn’t work?
See Beth’s Book, “Thinking About Thinking” for more on critical thinking
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20. Take Responsibility for Developing Your own Resistance to Stress
“People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.”
John Wanamaker
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21. Mahalo A hui hou Malama Pono Beth Terry, CSP BethTerry.com @BTSpeaker
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