Posts Tagged ‘Stress’
How Stress Makes Us Stupid
Over the past few years, I’ve become more and more of an advocate for decent strategic planning in the lead up to the December break and the flip over of the calendar to the next year. Strategic planning that allows us to consider, download and offload the year we’ve had – processing the lessons, assessing…
Read MoreTaking Back Control of Your World
One of the most stressful things that we can do is focus solely on what goes on in the world around us. When we focus on what happens around us – the physical reality, circumstances and the things that are happening TO us – we feel out of control and our stress levels rise. One…
Read MoreHero to Burnout In 2.5 Seconds
We all agree it’s been an interesting (read unprecedented) year, and that it just seems to keep coming. Years are funny like that – time marches on, waiting for no man. Around March, we were still looking at the approaching ripple that was changing the world and wondering what it would mean for us. Schools…
Read MoreThe Back Foot – And How Not To Stay There
Last week we spoke about our ego – our very human tendency to look after Number 1. We talked about how to tell when our ego has been activated and acknowledge the physiological response we have when adrenaline is coursing through our bodies, how it ruins our chances at teamwork and what to do about…
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