E-couragement: Your Brain at Positive…
"Your brain at positive performs significantly better than negative, neutral, or stressed." Shawn Achor
Overwhelmed. Stressed. Exhausted. Deadlines. Outnumbered. Powerless. These are the words I recently received after asking client team members to describe the feelings of their employees. Interestingly enough, I’ve heard similar descriptors from clients across various industries. Perhaps that’s why many of them are asking for help with positivity, work/life balance, and managing stress.
At EXTRAordinary! Inc., our job is to provide information, ideas, and tools that clients can apply in order to be more successful individually and collectively. Since the challenges my clients face are not unique, here are a few resources that you’ll find helpful in your quest to live and work with more engagement:
- In this 12-minute video, psychologist Shawn Achor describes how the lens through which your brain views the world determines levels of positivity and happiness.
- This 7-minute video takes an experimental approach to exploring the question: What makes you happy?
- A short article reviewing the works of Dr. Martin Seligman (founding father of positive psychology) offering a simple practice for enhancing wellbeing.
- A brief blog by Leo Babauta considers how you can drop stress levels while still getting your job done and take care of your family.
We trust these resources will prove valuable for you. Read. Reflect. Apply.
Leave your comments: What practices are helping you improve positivity and manage stress?