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Work is Best if You "Practice Safe Stress"

Guest post by: Sylvia Lafair

Article Overview: Sorry, I can't just make a quick list here. I am going to give you some tips and tolls to practice "SAFE STRESS". However, it cannot be done in a few sound bites. It will take some searching inside yourself to find your specific issues that keep you from personal fulfillment and even financial freedom. This is a time to do some spring cleaning of your old patterned behavior and beliefs that keep you, (you're not alone, they keep all of us) from reaching peak performance and be able to stay there.

Work is Best if You "Practice Safe Stress"

I have questions, I have answers. First the questions: 1. Do you often feel overwhelmed?

2. Are you stressed and worried about the future?

3. Do you wonder if you will ever love what you do at work?

4. Are you waking up exhausted?

5. Do you blame the economy for these tough times?

6. Are you afraid to make bold moves toward success?

7. Do you flee, freeze or fight when conflict comes your way?

Here are the answers:

Sorry, I can't just make a quick list here. I am going to give you some tips and tolls to practice "SAFE STRESS". However, it cannot be done in a few sound bites. It will take some searching inside yourself to find your specific issues that keep you from personal fulfillment and even financial freedom.

This is a time to do some spring cleaning of your old patterned behavior and beliefs that keep you, (you're not alone, they keep all of us) from reaching peak performance and be able to stay there.

The very first thing to do is take the pattern aware quiz at my web site. Then you can begin the first of the three tasks of the OUT technique. Spend the next week OBSERVING your behavior. Keep a note pad with you. Every time you sense you are falling into the pattern of behavior that is so knee jerk you never even noticed it before write down a sentence or two about the situation, the people involved and the big one, how you felt during the transaction.

That is enough for this first week. At the end of the week take a red pen and circle the behaviors that were similar in all the situations. Please remember, the only constant in these personal stories is you!

Once you can begin to observe your words and actions from a place of observation you have taken the first steps to practice SAFE STRESS. There is a place between zoning out when you are unsure, feel attacked, or incompetent (again, you are not alone, every9one on the planet has these feelings) or freaking out to push aside the feelings of uncertainty, embarrassment, or inadequacy.

Here is the clue for next week: when stress hits the hot button, we all revert to patterns of behavior we learned in childhood for security and survival.

The good news is that once you can take the time to observe your own behavior you are already on the road of making positive changes. Your brain will cooperate and you can begin the journey to change to the positive and healthy opposite. So, if you are a pleaser who says "yes" to all requests you can become a truth teller and start the engine of saying what you want and need. Sound good? It is.

Workplace conflict begins to diminish and a magical change can occur where you wake up energized, ready to go to work, communicate wi5h your boss and co-workers and begin to make bold, new moves toward your next steps in personal and professional success. So, what are you waiting for, go to my website and find out what the patterns are so you can wave your wand over overwhelm, stress, and exhaustion and have some fun at work.

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