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Heart Attack Symptoms In Women And Stress

Most studies on heart attacks, and heart attack symptoms, have been performed on men. But surprisingly, when the National Institutes of Health (NIH) studied heart attacks in women, they found that women have much different experiences. In fact, many of the symptoms of heart attacks in women are misdiagnosed as chronic fatigue or flu! So if you are a woman – or someone who loves one – you need to know how heart attack symptoms women differ from heart attack symptoms men.

Primary topic: Stress Management

Stress Management

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How Can I Fight Stress? Plan

Stress is disorganized. It feels focused, unrelenting, and probably targeted right at you. But stress is not a thing. Stress is, in large part, the conflict you feel when your boundaries are being stretched. Stress in the workplace is your boss testing your boundary for autonomy. Or it could be you pushing your boundaries of experience and insight out from what they have been pigeonholed in for so long. You have a better chance of answering "How can I fight stress?" if you hit back at it with a plan.

Primary topic: Stress Management

Stress Management

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At The Heart of Leadership is Creativity, Imagination and Seeing Beyond Boundaries and Conventional Thinking

There are many theories on what leadership is. People love to give flowery language and fiery quotes that seem more motivational than instructional. Listing endless adjectives about leaderships is not defining leadership or even describing leadership. It actually shows how hard it is to say what leadership is. It’s more than just holding a position of authority. It’s more than just developing personal excellence. It’s more than just cheering people on. It is especially more than yelling at or threatening them. But there are not too many theories on what leadership is not.

Primary topic: Stress Management

Stress Management

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Family Budgeting: The Purpose Determines The Budget

In these economic times, practically no one has the luxury anymore of joking “I can’t be broke – I still have checks left!” Managing your money is a necessity. Unfortunately, all of the information out about how to set up a budget almost always ignores the most important point: the purpose of the budget. Family budgeting has a purpose. That is either to stop or redirect spending, or to force savings. If your budget is not doing one of these two things, your budget isn’t really doing anything except increasing your stress. And no stress management system can fight against that.

Primary topic: Stress Management

Stress Management

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A NEW METHOD OF STRESS MANAGEMENT: STRESS TRANSFORMATION AND STHENIC REACTION

Stress, as most people use that term, really refers to the reaction that you have to a stressful situation. This is the “fight or flight” reaction. It is the instinctive and unconscious preparation of all your internal systems - muscles, emotions, adrenaline, will - to respond stress as a threat. You either fight a threat or you run away from it. The cost on you internally is enormous. Each such reaction degrades the system’s ability to respond, much like using a knife dulls the edge ever so slightly with each use.

Primary topic: Stress Management

Stress Management

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By Rick CarterRecently published1 topic

Is Workplace Stress Killing Your Family?

You are on your way up. You are advancing in your career faster than you thought possible. You are being given more responsibility. And rewards. And the workplace stress that goes along with it. You figure it's worth it. But does your family? The bad health effects of the stress you experience go home with you. You feel tired because you are tired. Too tired physically and emotionally to connect with your spouse or your kids. You can't sleep, so mornings with you are like poking the bear for your family. Can you use these 5 ways to keep workplace stress from affecting your family?r

Primary topic: Stress Management

Stress Management

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By Rick CarterRecently published1 topic

Family Money Management And Stress Management With A Realistic Budget

A major and consistent source of stress for most people is money. Well, actually the stress is caused by spending more money than they bring in or have. The answer to this is simple: spend less. Yeah, and the answer to losing weight is spend more calories than you eat. So let’s come up with a plan for realistic family money management and hopefully get rid of some of that stress with a realistic budget.

Primary topic: Stress Management

Stress Management

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By Rick CarterRecently published1 topic

Lack Of Faith Prevents Your Maximum Personal Effectiveness

Truly unleashing your maximum personal effectiveness requires faith. Not faith in a religious sense. Faith in yourself and your abilities. Faith that you have unwavering hope that your goals can be accomplished. This is different from having faith that a supe atural being or exte al force will cause everything to work out for your best. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. But having faith in yourself is a much more reliable strategy than hoping for the best.

Primary topic: Stress Management

Stress Management

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By Rick CarterRecently published1 topic

7 Tips For Stress Management At Work

What would work be without stress? Pretty unsuccessful! Stress at work lets you know that you are challenging your own limits, when you are pushing beyond your own limits, like when you push yourself to finish a project before the deadline. Stress also wears down your physical and emotional systems. So stress management strategies are sought after by everyone.

Primary topic: Stress Management

Stress Management

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By Rick CarterRecently published1 topic

Stress And Time Management: Liberating Not Restrictive

Many people think of time management as micro-managing your day by filling up every minute with a tedious list of A-B-C prioritized tasks. Actually, time management is self discipline. It’s the discipline to say no to distractions and interruptions, and stay focused on the task at hand. Stress management is more than just meditating and exercising. It is eliminating the stressors in your life. Stress and time management are actually methods for liberating your life, not restricting it. Here are 7 tips for using stress and time management to free yourself:

Primary topic: Stress Management

Stress Management

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By Rick CarterRecently published1 topic

Achieving Goals Efficiently Increases Personal Effectiveness

Doing something well is worthless if you are doing the wrong thing. Your personal effectiveness is maximized when you remain focused on your goals. Defining a specific detailed path to your goals is an absolute requirement. Here are 5 methods of defining efficient paths to achieve defined goals:r

Primary topic: Stress Management

Stress Management

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Leader May Be The Smartest In The Room, But Is Not Smarter Than The Room

A leader knows that he or she may be the smartest person in the room, but isn't smarter than the entire room. Use your team for good ideas. Leaders have a combination of intelligence, charisma, character and experience. These are very difficult to define and even harder to teach. Which is good, because this article is not about any of these characteristics. It is about personal excellence, but that’s at the end of the article.r

Primary topic: Stress Management

Stress Management

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By Rick CarterRecently published1 topic

Work Anxiety And Taking Control: 4 Steps

Anxiety, according to dictionary.com, is “distress or uneasiness of mind caused by fear of danger or misfortune.” Fear is defined at the same site as “a distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagined.” So anxiety can be defined as “distress or uneasiness of mind caused by a real or imagined threat.” When you see work anxiety in that way, the 4 steps to deal with it practically write themselves. The four steps to taking control of work anxiety are:r

Primary topic: Stress Management

Stress Management

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By Rick CarterRecently published1 topic

Creative Problem Solving For Increasing Workplace Productivity

Increasing workplace productivity is a major source of stress in the workplace. Management is under pressure to get more done in less time at less cost. Workers are under pressure to learn new technologies, or new procedures with out-dated technologies. The resulting stress can be crippling, physically and emotionally. There is a solution. Some experts recommend discussing this with management. This is good advice. However, their perception is usually that the less work you do, the more work they have to do. You need a creative solution to your problem.

Primary topic: Stress Management

Stress Management

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By Rick CarterRecently published1 topic

Stress And The Workplace: Effectiveness At Work

Effectiveness at work means more than just checking off all the items on your “To Do” list. It means getting along with your co-workers, interacting with management, and keeping clients or customers satisfied. It requires all of your talents, skills and abilities. And the quickest way to disrupt this is to be under stress. The greater the stress, the more disrupted you are. The more disrupted you are, the less effective you are.

Primary topic: Stress Management

Stress Management

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By Rick CarterRecently published1 topic

Stress At Work: The Advice That Will Kill You

Let’s face it: work without stress is a hobby. It’s the stress that makes it work. Stress at work comes at you from all sides. Co-workers that annoy you. Management that puts impossible deadlines and workloads on you. Family stresses that you carry to work with you from home. All of this in a troubled economy and the threat of job loss hanging over your head. This article will show you some steps to eliminate as much of that stress as possible.

Primary topic: Stress Management

Stress Management

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By Rick CarterRecently published1 topic

SItuational Leadership and Success Coaching

Leadership is defined as “someone who guides or directs a group.” There are many ways to do this. The most visible and probably the most ineffective is to yell at people until they do something that looks like what you want them to do. That works once. But true situational leadership - that focuses on the group, the conditions, and the goals - is a much more effective and long lasting method of leadership.

Primary topic: Stress Management

Stress Management

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By Rick CarterRecently published1 topic

Stress As Self Discovery

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that wish to elect a state and remain there. This is a kind of death. – Anais Nin. Stress is often thought of something that must be endured, as something that annoys you and vexes you until it stops. People search for ways to minimize stress, to relieve stress, to avoid it. But what if stress was really the path of your self discovery? What if stressful situations were markers along the road of your journey of self growth?r

Primary topic: Stress Management

Stress Management

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By Rick CarterRecently published1 topic

Ten Tips For Effective Stress Management

Stress is a necessary part of life. Stress, in a positive form, lets you know that you are challenging your own limits, like when you strain to lift 10 more pounds or push yourself to finish a project before the deadline. Stress, in a negative form, wears down your physical and emotional systems. So stress management strategies are sought after by everyone.

Primary topic: Stress Management

Stress Management

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By Rick CarterRecently published1 topic

Creative Problem Solving For Increasing Workplace Productivity

Increasing workplace productivity is a major source of stress in the workplace. Management is under pressure to get more done in less time at less cost. Workers are under pressure to learn new technologies, or new procedures with out-dated technologies. The resulting stress can be crippling, physically and emotionally. There is a solution. Some experts recommend discussing this with management. This is good advice. However, their perception is usually that the less work you do, the more work they have to do. You need a creative solution to your problem.

Primary topic: Stress Management

Stress Management

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By Rick CarterRecently published1 topic

Time management techniques for increasing workplace productivity

Increasing workplace productivity is easily defined: getting more work done in less time. Now, unless you have developed some kind of machine that slows down time or allows you to stop time while you do work, you are going to have to become more efficient in one of those two areas. This article is focused on using your time more efficiently.

Primary topic: Stress Management

Stress Management

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By Rick CarterRecently published1 topic

Creative Thinking And Increasing Workplace Productivity

The pressure and stress focused on increasing workplace productivity is getting to be almost unbearable: More companies are feeling that they have to be profitable at all costs, and that cost is usually your time and health. And usually that stress is compounded by the feeling that there is nothing you can do about it. There is something you can do, and it is can affect your personal specie directly

Primary topic: Stress Management

Stress Management

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By Rick CarterRecently published1 topic

Not Every Interested Client Is A Buying Client: 5 Tips

True or false: Every now and then, you in your role as salesperson will meet someone who simply won't buy what you are selling. Well, obviously, that's true, right? I mean, no one has a 100% sales record. Because even though you have taken all the top-notch sales training courses and the best sales presentation training, your potential customers haven't. So all your sales tips and techniques won't work on someone who simply doesn't want to buy.

Primary topic: Stress Management

Stress Management

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By Rick CarterRecently published1 topic

No One Ever Became A Leader By Submission.

One definition of a leader is “one who is followed by others.” Another is “one who has influence or control over others.” This is accomplished by force (including authority based on position) and charisma (people want you to lead them). This implies that a leader is a person who expects others to follow. Or a person who is confident enough to seek to influence others. We're not talking good or bad leaders, or people who abuse their office of authority. Just making some generalizations.r

Primary topic: Stress Management

Stress Management

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By Rick CarterRecently published1 topic

5 Ways To Help Tightness In Chest With Anxiety

Panic is probably the most terrifying symptom of an anxiety attack. The tightness in chest with anxiety sometimes feels like a heart attack. But fixing just the tightness won't remove the anxiety. You could take an aspirin or painkiller. You could meditate or take deep breaths. You could exercise. These may lessen the pain. But it will probably return, if the anxiety is not eliminated.

Primary topic: Stress Management

Stress Management

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By Rick CarterRecently published1 topic

Signs Of Stress: Mental

Do you know the signs of stress? Not just feeling stress. Because waiting until you feel stress is like deciding to fight the enemy after they've come through the gate and over the walls. Your body and your mind let you know that stress is coming. Stress makes your body go into "fight or flight" reaction. There are countless systems and methods to minimize the effects of this once it kicks in. But what if you got ahead of the stress? What if you could cut off the reaction before it started? Here are 5 signs of stress that affect you mentally (as opposed to emotionally or physically):r

Primary topic: Stress Management

Stress Management

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By Rick CarterRecently published1 topic

I Need Help Losing Weight

What is it about losing weight that makes it so hard to stick to? Why are you throwing up your hands and crying “I need help losing weight”? It seems pretty straightforward right: burn more calories than you take in and lose weight over time. So you either increase your exercise routine or you change - and lower - the calories you eat. Hmmm. Maybe it’s not the process. Maybe something else is interfering. Maybe it’s stress.

Primary topic: Stress Management

Stress Management

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By Rick CarterRecently published1 topic

Top 5 WORST Stress Management Tips

Everywhere you look, someone is offering stress management tips. And most of them are all the same. But have you ever thought about whether these tips are good or bad? Whether they actually work or are just parroting what someone wrote? Whether they will actually relieve the stress in your life or make it worse? Here are the top 5 worst tips on stress management usually seen on the web:r

Primary topic: Stress Management

Stress Management

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By Rick CarterRecently published1 topic

USING AN ONLINE LIFE COACH TO IMPROVE YOUR PERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS

Improving your personal effectiveness might be the best way to pay dividends in all areas of your life. There is a lot of focus on self-help and self-improvement, but less on how to make those improvements actually shine in your day to day life. By focusing on improving your personal effectiveness, you translate every improvement in any area into something that touches everyone you come in contact with. And maybe the most efficient and cost effective way to improve your personal effectiveness is to use an online life coach.

Primary topic: Stress Management

Stress Management

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By Rick CarterRecently published1 topic

The Most Moral Act Of All Is The Creation Of Space For Life To Move Onward

The title of this article is a quote from Robert Pirsig from his book “Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals.” Mr. Pirsig is best known as the author of “Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance,” widely regarded as the best selling philosophy book of all time. I highly recommend both books (for what that’s worth). This article is not a discussion of either book, nor the philosophies expressed in them. They are controversial. And I am not equipped to jump into that controversy. That’s on you, if you so choose. I am here to discuss the quote above.r

Primary topic: Stress Management

Stress Management

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By Rick CarterRecently published1 topic

Situational Leadership and Success Coaching

Leadership is defined as “someone who guides or directs a group.” There are many ways to do this. The most visible and probably the most ineffective is to yell at people until they do something that looks like what you want them to do. That works once. But true situational leadership - that focuses on the group, the conditions, and the goals - is a much more effective and long lasting method of leadership.

Primary topic: Stress Management

Stress Management

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By Rick CarterRecently published1 topic

The problem with corporate America and bureaucratic government is that promotions are based on sycophancy not competency.

Sycophancy is defined as “fawning obsequiousness. Synonyms: grovelling, servility, cringing, fawning, kowtowing, bootlicking, toadyism, slavishness.” Obviously, these ar negative terms. Being a sycophant is a negative thing. Being a sycophant is the worst form of lying to yourself, because a sycophant denies his or her fundamental perception of reality and subordinates it to what he or she thinks the boss wants reality to be. It is not merely subordinating yourself to the boss. It is subordinating your mind and soul to the boss.

Primary topic: Stress Management

Stress Management

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By Rick CarterRecently published1 topic

Leadership Must Balance Dynamic And Static Growth

Leadership needs the balance between the static of what works vs. dynamic creative growth. This is not a division between conservative or low-risk-takers compared to risk-takers or recklessness. It is the decision between choosing what must be kept in place - the static - and what must be pushed forward - the dynamic.r

Primary topic: Stress Management

Stress Management

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By Rick CarterRecently published1 topic

Is Workplace Stress Frustrating Your Effectiveness?

The hidden key to career success is how you react to workplace stress. Much more than your technical skills, your people skills, or even your suck-up-to-the-boss skills, it is how you manage and deflect stress that determines your success in the company. This is because the company can train anyone to perform technically. They can hire gregarious people and educate them technically. And the boss will always find someone who will suck up. But it is a rare to find someone who can keep his or her head in the middle of chaos, or who doesn’t call in sick every time a crisis deadline looms.r

Primary topic: Stress Management

Stress Management

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Workplace Stress And Personal Effectiveness: A Symbiotic Relationship

You probably never thought of workplace stress as being the paramount key to your career success. Most people and so-called experts want to emphasize people skills or technical skills or even how you interact with your boss. But without stress and chaos, you really have no opportunity to stand out from the crowd. Sure, you might have great technical skills. But your competition can get some training and catch up to you. And your superior people skills can be equalized by a seminar or intensive workshop. Some bosses really can tell the difference between co-operation and obsequiousness.

Primary topic: Stress Management

Stress Management

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Five Easy Ways To Increase Your Workplace Stress To Increase Your Personal Effectiveness

Workplace stress is just a fact of working life, right? There’s nothing you can do to stop it, right? There’s nothing you can do to get rid of it, right? Well, the reality is that you can not only control it, but you can turn it to your advantage. You can use how you handle stress into the stepping stone for advancement and leadership. But if you don’t know this, then you are just stuck with it.r

Primary topic: Stress Management

Stress Management

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By Rick CarterRecently published1 topic

Using Workplace Stress To Improve Your Personal Effectiveness.

Handling workplace stress is the secret key to your career success. Your people skills are important. Your technical skills do matter. Even your ability to tolerate your boss can help you advance. But what can make you really stand out from the crowd is how you operate under stress. The reason for this is that those other skills are trainable. People skills can be acquired through workshops and seminars. Technical skills can be learned at on-site or off-site classes. And your boss will keep firing people until he or she finds the one who is most tolerant.

Primary topic: Stress Management

Stress Management

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Stress Relieving Methods: Time Management

In this economy, the pressure is on for you to be productive. To do more with less. And to do it in less time. Be more efficient. Usually under rapidly changing, almost chaotic, conditions. This adds to the stress you are already feeling at work of just trying to get on with your career. And all of this involves being able to master your use of time as one of your stress relieving methods.

Primary topic: Stress Management

Stress Management

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5 Steps To Managing Workplace Stress

Workplace stress management is a unique form of stress management. This is because workplace stress can have consequences that last well into your time at home or even your vacation. It also has stress management techniques that are adapted to the workplace. Desk yoga is one example. But confronting your boss about an unreasonable deadline is another.

Primary topic: Stress Management

Stress Management

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Flexibility Is Key To Personal Effectiveness

Personal effectiveness is often measured by the ability to perform consistently and achieve goals. But following a path blindly or fixating on a goal when that goal is no longer meaningful or attainable is counter-productive and may be destructive. To maximize your effectiveness, you have to be flexible. But you can’t be so flexible that you cannot attain a goal.

Primary topic: Stress Management

Stress Management

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