Mindful Resilience for Work-Life Thriving

Take this quick, classic assessment to get a snapshot of your current stress level.  For nearly 40 years, the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) has been the most widely used psychological instrument for measuring the perception of stress. This version is the most currently used, evolved PSS and is conveniently available via my site, which does the score calculation for you. Assess your stress in a snap!  The lecture tells how to take and make the most of the PSS.

This stressors evaluation, coaching exercise and lecture will help you to better manage common, daily stress.

The exercise helps you understand what positively challenges and motivates you and what distresses you so that you can stay more on the side of positive stress (eustress) and reap its benefits.  In the lecture, we address five common habits that tip us from positive stress to distress and I coach through how to better manage stress when these five factors arise. You'll become more stress resilient through this brief lecture and accompanying Stressors Evaluation and Coaching doc. 

Better master your stress resilience by exploring two main reaction styles to stress: hyperreactivity and hyporeactivity.

This lecture and the following assessment help you to recognize your stress response tendencies and increase your ability to bring yourself out of hyper and hypo-reactive states, so that you can think, feel and act with greater clarity, intention and positive outcomes.

This lecture sets up the following exercise so that you can know your own stress signals and gain in-the-moment self-regulation skills.

This exercise equips you to navigate and master your own stress response, so that you remain effective and collaborative.  Coach through your stress anytime you feel hyper or hypo-activated so that you transform your stress reactions into intentional responses.

Learn why to and how to de-stress productively and rapidly so that our stress response doesn’t take over and destroy our state of mind, emotion, body, and our relationships.  This brief lecture sets up the following guided mindful resilience practice.

This research-backed mindful resilience practice helps you to regain control of your brain and your body so that you can respond, think and move forward effectively.  Easy to learn and repeat, use this coping and calming technique anytime you need to self-regulate so that you can show up your best and create a positive impact.

Take the Well-Being Wheel Assessment to gauge your current status across several areas of well-being and determine which areas of development will yield the most valuable and desired positive results. Know where you currently stand in terms of well-being and assess your areas of action.  Take the assessment directly via my website and then save your own Well-Being Wheel visual to create your Well-Being Plan.

Discover common negative default patterns of mind that erode mental well-being, damage relations and reduce cognitive function, and explore effective ways up and out of these damaging pitfalls. Work through the Cognitive Restructuring Guide, as I talk through a relatable example, to bring the mind from a state of self-sabotage to a state of clarity and resilience.

When in distress, we're often hijacked -- by part of our own brain!  Practice a technique to maintain your presence, poise and purpose even when feeling emotionally triggered.  This method calms your nervous system and directs neural signals to your brain that enhance cognitive function and allow you to think, learn and decide more clearly and calmly.  The guided practice includes important, but often overlooked, keys to emotional resilience. Discover how to navigate from emotional overwhelm and duress to emotional intelligence and success!

High performance requires the smart management and ready mobilization of energy - mental, emotional and physical energies. Explore and commit to three fundamental keys to maintaining energy, which increases your focus, efficiency and happiness.

Create your resilience-building plan of action to maximize your ability to think, connect and feel well, even in the face of tough challenges and high demands. Leverage your Well-Being Wheel Assessment to identify your area of focus and work through the Well-Being Daily Action Plan to generate motivation, commitment and accountability toward greater wellness, presence and sustained success.

Effectively create positive changes with these three research-based tips. Make your new resiliency habits memorable, attractive and progressive to enjoy success! 

Take these final two minutes to ensure you end this course with clear commitments, tools and insights for you to thrive in work and life.  We briefly recap the keys and practices that build the 3 pillars of resilience covered in this course: Address Stress, Raise Well-being and Create Helpful Habits.  Please leave your rating and review. Thank you for taking this course!