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Goodbye Stress - Hello Success
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Learn Winning Attitudes - Bring Out Your Personal Best. "GOODBYE STRESS - HELLO SUCCESS" is the Self-Help Handbook of 21 Empowerment Techniques & Exercises to help you say "No" to tension while reaching out for success.

This book is based on techniques used during more than 20 years of professional experiences on helping people change for the better.

"GOODBYE STRESS - HELLO SUCCESS" delivers hands on and fact based input on how to handle stress, to bring back and further develop our natural Bounce Back Factor in living.

You see, when children fall they naturally Bounce Back. In the adult world of frustrating experiences and accumulated failures, we lose abilities that children have: resilience...

Consider the following: "Winners Let Their Thinking Affect Limitations of the Environment. Losers Do Just The Opposite. They Let Limitations of the Environment Affect Their Thinking."

1. We feel most energetic and empowered around some people yet totally exhausted with others.

2. Attitudes that we allow around or inside us may either energize or deplete us.

3. In a world where negative and pessimistic attitudes are rampant, it is essential to keep our resilience flowing.

4. "Happy" or "miserable" live in your mind. And, it is all in your mind!

5. Learning to deal with pessimism - in others and in you - develops your self-confidence and strength of character.

6. Winning Attitudes are learned. You, too, can be a winner!

Welcome to "Goodbye Stress - Hello Success"
LanguageEnglish
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Release dateApr 26, 2016
ISBN9781456606114
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    Goodbye Stress - Hello Success - Louise Aznavour PhD

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    GOODBYE STRESS - HELLO SUCCESS

    PREFACE

    On the Title Page how many Survival Tools did you see?

    Most adults sampled randomly saw only 4 even after much help. In contrast, teenagers picked all 5 without batting an eye!

    Besides eyesight, perhaps, in the adult world of forced structure, frustrating experiences and accumulated failures, we lose abilities that children have. When children fall they naturally bounce back.

    So then, on the Title Page did you see all the 5 Survival Tools? If yes, then you have kept your youthful attitude and you are observant.

    Humor, Optimism, Perspective, and Energy as Survival Tools are also accompanied by Hope, the essential binding ingredient.

    After all, in life we need Hope to carry us through. Please, go back to the cover page and locate it.

    This book will help you to say No to tension while reaching out for success.

    Consider the following: Winners Let Their Thinking Affect Limitations of the Environment. Losers Do Just The Opposite. They Let Limitations of the Environment Affect Their Thinking.

    1. We feel most energetic and empowered around some people yet totally exhausted with others.

    2. Attitudes that we allow around or inside us may either energize or deplete us.

    3. In a world where negative and pessimistic attitudes are rampant, it is essential to keep our resilience flowing.

    4. Happy or miserable live in your mind. And, it is all in your mind!

    5. Learning to deal with pessimism -in others and in you- develops your self-confidence and strength of character.

    6. Winning Attitudes are learned. You, too, can be a winner!

    As a team together let us bring out Your Personal Best.

    Long ago I promised myself to keep enthusiasm

    and

    Be a student of life.

    Our complex world, at times,

    Makes the challenge difficult.

    Yet I get energized

    By creating momentum for others.

    The "Boomerang Effect" benefits me, too.

    So, let us motivate each other

    To stay fascinated as students of life.

    May the "Boomerang Effect" be with you!

    - Louise Aznavour -

    NOW, YOU ARE AN APPRENTICE SAGE.

    ARE YOU A FAST LEARNER?

    Come and reach for the stars now with me,

    Capture your magic as it is out there free.

    The best of all possible worlds

    Is ready to mirror into our eyes

    The glitter of all the stars.

    This world is here for you and me.

    Come along making this promise to eternity

    To gently lick our collective wounds

    To softly heal our deep scars

    Within the glitter of all the stars.

    HIGHLIGHTS

    GOODBYE STRESS - HELLO SUCCESS

    PREFACE

    LEARNING FROM THE WILD CAT

    OUR BELIEFS FILTER THE REALITY FOR US

    PRACTICE EXERCISE: SELF-TALK

    EXERCISE: THE GRIPES BASKET

    SOME PEOPLE ARE MORE RESILIENT

    MOVING TOWARDS WHAT YOU WANT

    ASKING GOOD QUESTIONS

    YOUR SELF-TALK

    EXERCISE: SELF-THERAPY

    THE HABIT OF BEING HAPPY

    CONDITIONS FOR HAPPINESS

    EXERCISE: GRATITUDE JOURNAL

    EXERCISE: OBSERVING FACIAL EXPRESSIONS

    COUNTER - CONDITIONING TECHNIQUE

    THE POWER OF LAUGHTER

    BE AS LIGHT AS A BUTTERFLY

    HUMOR IS EVERYWHERE: SEEK AND YOU SHALL FIND!

    THE HOURGLASS OF CREATIVITY

    OPTIMISM: A SERVING OF HOPE, A TOUCH OF PERSPECTIVE

    WHERE IS THE PONY?

    EINSTEIN THE OPTIMIST WITH PERSPECTIVE!

    RESILIENCE

    A SELF-ENERGIZING EXERCISE

    EXERCISES TO BUILD RESILIENCE

    CHARLIE CHAPLIN IS YOUR COACH

    VISUALIZATION EXERCISE: AFTER THE RAIN COMES THE RAINBOW

    EXERCISE: THIS TOO SHALL PASS!

    SO WHAT IF TECHNIQUE

    AWARENESS - MINDFULNESS - RELAXATION

    SHAKE YOUR SYSTEM

    WARM-UP PERIOD BEFORE THE WORKOUT

    VISUALIZATION EXERCISE: STRETCHING THE MUSCLES OF YOUR BRAIN

    BUILDING STRENGTH OF MIND

    NARCISSISM - THE TALE OF NARCISSUS

    BOOMERANG EFFECT

    YOUR ONLY TIME: A SURVIVAL TECHNIQUE

    TARGET: REDUCING STRESS

    DO YOU REACT OR OVERREACT?

    THOUGHT STOPPING TECHNIQUE

    PAVLOV’S DOGS & CLASSICAL CONDITIONING

    ANGER MANAGEMENT

    THE SHOVEL

    ANGER: THE MISUNDERSTOOD EMOTION

    HOLD THE MIRROR OF REALITY

    DOWNSIZING ANGER

    ANGER REDUCTION TECHNIQUES USED BY BUSINESS MANAGERS

    STIMULUS CONTROL TECHNIQUE

    EXERCISE: GET FOCUSED

    ON STAYING UPBEAT

    EXERCISE: HOW UPBEAT ARE YOU?

    SAY WHAT YOU MEAN OWN WHAT YOU SAY

    THE WORLD IS OUR MIRROR

    SELECTIVE PERCEPTION

    MY WAY OR NO WAY

    STOP! CHANGE YOUR FOCUS

    THE BEAUTIFUL VIEW OR THE DIRT ON THE WINDOW

    KNOW THYSELF! -Socrates-

    SELF-DISCOVERY EXERCISES

    EXERCISE: YOUR TRAVEL COMPANION

    TECHNIQUES TO CONTROL WORRYING

    EXERCISE: FIND YOUR COINED PHRASE

    USING COGNITIVE THERAPY TECHNIQUES TO CONTROL WORRYING

    PRACTICE SESSION: HANDLING WORRIES

    THE MORE PREPARED YOU ARE THE LUCKIER YOU GET

    YOUR OWN CD BURNER

    EXERCISE: PULL YOURSELF TOGETHER

    EXERCISE: YOU ARE THE BOSS

    EXERCISE: MENTAL REHEARSAL

    VISUALIZATION EXERCISE: SUNFLOWERS

    EXERCISE: YOUR WINNING MOMENT

    EPILOGUE

    OPPORTUNITYISNOWHERE

    ABOUT THE AUTHOR

    21 TECHNIQUES & EXERCISES

    ADDITIONAL TECHNIQUES & EXERCISES

    SELECTIONS

    LEARNING FROM THE WILD CAT

    WILD CAT is an acronym to memorize. Each letter stands for a wise thought which you can use in your daily problem solving when you talk to yourself. And yes we all talk to ourselves.

    Here is a collection of Adaptive Self-Talk dispersed throughout this book.

    They invite you to focus on solving problems without carrying an added emotional burden.

    WILD CAT

    W hat Is, Is... I Can Handle It

    I f Pain Is Inevitable Suffering Is Optional

    L ive, Love, Laugh

    D on’t Get Mad, Get Focused

    C ool- Calm- Collected

    A lert - Aware - Able

    T his too shall pass

    Did you memorize what WILD CAT stands for?

    W hat Is, Is... I Can Handle It

    I………………………………

    L ………………………………

    D …………………………….

    C ool- Calm- Collected

    A ………………………………

    T his too ………………………

    Use Adaptive Self-Talk as often as you can. (fill in the gaps)

    Part I

    OUR BELIEFS FILTER THE REALITY FOR US

    Ultimately Our Beliefs Become Our Reality

    A patient at the hospital where I worked believed that it was impossible for her to find a job since she belonged to a certain minority group and, therefore, she was systematically being discriminated against.

    So, she did not even apply for a job. I brought it up to her attention that perhaps part of her problem was the messages she was sending out to the world with her attitude and her dress code.

    Perhaps, her attire and attitude did not promote invitation from certain circles.

    Perhaps, her pink and blue coloured hair lacquered with gel and stiffened by hair spray looked like the spikes of a porcupine ready to attack.

    Perhaps, her baggy pants with chains and tattoos all over her body frightened the prospective employer.

    Her prompt reply was: It is because I am scared of people out there that I wear these things as protective shields for me!

    My heart went for her. This was a terrified child building up fences between her and the world.

    It took a long while for her to learn a more useful attitude and say:

    I see, since I am the one who wants a job, perhaps I better look into how others see me, too.

    She learned to focus on her goal and adapted herself to reach that goal.

    Previously, she focused on the effect others had on her. She learned to take into consideration the effect she had on others, as well.

    Somewhere in my home very visible to me, I have the following poster.

    Practice Exercise: Self-Talk

    Who wants to be exhausted using lots of energy by complaining?

    This is a reminder for me to do something about problems without self-pity and feelings of helplessness.

    In this world there is no shortage of self-pity. In fact it is almost becoming a daily diet of some people. They waste their precious energies. Proactive action is better than inaction.

    The victim is trapped into highlighting suffering, unhappiness, and wrongdoing to keep the status quo. Then, the stage is set for perpetuated misery while playing the Walking Wounded. Say:

    You are never a victim

    Save your energy

    Stop complaining

    Focus on solutions instead!

    This does not mean that there is nothing to complain about. In fact there may be an abundance of issues to complain about.

    This book invites you not to waste your precious time and energy.

    Get focused, analyze the problem and use your energy to solve it or go around it.

    Now, this is a self-talk to repeat often whenever drowning in self-pity.

    ***

    Easy does it! Give time for positive changes to take place. After all, we did not arrive to this world along with a neatly written Instruction Manual.

    In our toolbox upon arrival we do not possess step-by-step instructions on how to use our minds without damaging our human machinery!

    ***Fair Play: Giving appropriate credits and without making any changes to the document, feel free to copy from this site to share with others. Thank you, LA

    = CHECKPOINT =

    • Do you see yourself as someone who is overwhelmed?

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