Stress Management
&
Confidence
"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be
continually fearing you will make one."
Outline for today
• your perceptions of the world around you – are they accurate?
• are you experiencing positive pressure or negative stress?
• what’s the problem with a bit of stress?
• your energy systems- do you really know how to manage energy?
• tools to manage pressure and stress – keep it simple and relax
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be
made in a very narrow field. ~Niels Bohr
Stimulus - Response
perceptions
Response
Stimulus
Stressor
How we respond depends upon:
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Emotional climate
Beliefs (conditioning)
Ability
Confidence (fears)
Energy
Habits (emotional habits)
Any one or more of these factors play a
critical role in determining our perceived
level of stress.
Pressure v Stress – how do you manage it?
Potential productivity
Peak performance but very
close to the stress threshold
Performance,
Potential and
productivity
Reducing performance
Genuine sickness
Zero performance
Poor performance
Taking a sickie
Increasing pressure
Increasing Stress
What's the problem with a bit of stress?
Developing self esteem and confidence
upper mental limit
Personality
Experiences
You
Comfort zone
lower mental limit
Failure is simply an opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
Getting down to basics: what are we?
energy
Physical
Energy Machines
You!
O2
Food
?
How do we function?
• Physically
• Psychologically
Psychological
• (self awareness)
Physical
our emotional state and energy
thinking
climate of our emotion
be very careful of emotional habits!
Just because you make mistakes doesn't mean you are one
Making a different mistake every day is not only acceptable, it is the definition of progress
Exploring our internal resources:
self awareness
WHY?
From personal perspective - opportunity
for growth, improved confidence, more
enjoyment of work/life and success in
managing yourself and others
conscious
psychological
physical
energy
Time management = thought management
Have to continually work on your thoughts so helpful to have
a tool to make you do that
Urgent
Critical
Strategic
Nice-to-do
Massage
Exercise (outdoor)
Meditation
Social networks
Nutrition
More complex
problems
a sense of perspective....
"A hundred years from now, it will not matter what kind of car
I drove, what kind of house I lived in, how much money I had
in the bank...but the world may be a better place because I
made a difference in the life of.........