Happiness Chemicals
Happiness Chemicals Feeling unappreciated? Unloved? Grouchy? Achy? Try these tips for activating your dopamine (reward chemical), oxytocin (love hormone), serotonin (mood stabilizer) and/or endorphin (pain killer).
What If You Had All The Self-Esteem You Needed?
What you think about yourself determines what you think about MANY things. So here’s a bit of a primer on the topic of self-esteem based, in part, on The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem, by Nathaniel Branden: What IS Self- Esteem? Self-esteem is the reputation we have with ourselves, akin to our ‘brand’ – not the …
So What Chapter Are YOU In?
From “There’s a Hole in my Sidewalk: An Autobiography in Five Short Chapters,” by Portia Nelson … Chapter 1. I walk down the street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I fall in. I am lost…I am helpless. It isn’t my fault. It takes forever to find a way out. Chapter 2. I …
When Will You Stop Sabotaging Yourself Like This?
A leader’s success can easily be predicted by how pressure affects performance. But while the pressures that organizations routinely place on leaders can be tremendous, it’s the pressures leaders put on themselves that are often more powerful…and debilitating. Pressures Imposed by the Organization The list of pressures that organizations put on leaders is near-infinite. Here …
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Updating Your Self-Diminishing Conclusions
The following exercise is a variation of Benjamin Franklin’s T-Chart (where he’d take a sheet of paper, divide it into two columns, and use one column to list out all the ‘pros’ of an upcoming decision and the other column to list out all the ‘cons’). In our case, though, rather than starting with a …
What, ME Worry?!
Check out John Parrott’s excellent post, The Ultimate Guide To Stress Management – an impressively comprehensive and well-sourced look at the topic at hand…like his many other posts at RelaxLikeABoss.com. Look at all he covers: 1. What Is Stress? 2. What Are The Symptoms Of Stress? 2.1. Physical Effects Of Stress. 2.2. Emotional Effects Of …