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Don’t Like Meditation? Try This Instead
Many studies show that Mindfulness Meditation can improve concentration, creativity and give you a new perspective on finding solutions. But people shy away from meditation, either because they don’t have the time or they’re intimidated by the idea. You don’t have to find a quiet space and empty your mind to have the benefits of meditation. This simple exercise can allow you to get the benefits and fit into your day.

6 Myths and 6 Truths About Perfectionism
Unfortunately, many cultures encourage a toxic view that perfectionism is beneficial. It doesn’t help you to be or do better. You’ll never be able to reach that impossibly high standard. And failing that creates a sense of shame. Stop chasing after perfectionism and understand the uncomfortable truths about it.

119 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Happier
We all strive to be happy, but sometimes we fall short of that goal. It doesn’t mean it’s unreachable. It just means you need to implement some new strategies. This article has investigated research on the subject and brought together tested ways you can incorporate into your life. It covers 9 different areas of your life that you can address.

~ Linda-Ann Stewart

As a vision strategist, speaker, coach, and hypnotherapist, Linda-Ann Stewart helps women entrepreneurs and businesswomen who feel stuck to get a clear vision, focus on strategies, and gain control so they’re able to
accelerate to the next level of their business. Sign up for her FREE guide, Take Control of Your Day.

Sparks of Insight

Sparks of Insight

Sparks of InsightI remember seeing a television show where a working wife and mother spent all weekend trying to keep her house as clean and perfect as her mother did. She was killing herself and alienating her family by her unrealistic expectations. There was no time for fun in her life. She was counseled to lower her standards so that she and her family could enjoy themselves. So what if her refrigerator wasn’t clean enough for an inspection? Her family needed some together time in a way that created happy memories. Where might you be holding yourself to unreasonable expectations, and how can you lower them so that you can have a life? Chores will always be there, but today won’t be.

~ Linda-Ann Stewart

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How to Regain Your Energy Throughout Your Day
An M.D has identified seven types of rest you need to stay healthy and productive. When she helped her patients with them, it improved their overall health. She asserts that sleep isn’t the same as rest, and replenishing these seven areas will restore your balance. In this article, each type has a specific tips on how to reestablish your energy.

Forget time management: focus on energy management
We all have a limited number of hours we can work before we get worn out. Research shows that today’s creative or information driven worker are only productive for about three hours a day. It just takes too much focus and thought. There’s more to productivity than putting in hours. Here’s how to work smarter, not longer.

7 Mental Hacks to Be More Confident in Yourself
Confidence is the cornerstone of leadership. If you don’t believe in yourself, how can others believe in you? Here are seven ways FBI agents learn to boost their confidence.Each tip has a way for you to apply it in your life. I especially love the one about thinking more positively.

~ Linda-Ann Stewart

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How to Make Mindfulness Part of Your Daily Routine
Instead of running on autopilot, you can train your brain to be more self-aware. This is a key skill for leadership by impacting your career and improving your performance. Learning mindfulness allows you to rewire your brain for the self-awareness that can lead to greater success.

6 Habits That Will Help You Build Mental Strength
Life happens. You’ll experience substantial stress from major events at times in your life. Being able to deal with it and recover quickly requires mental strength and resilience. Improving your mental fitness means you can be more resourceful and handle stress more calmly. As you establish these 6 habits, you improve your mental ability to handle opportunities and challenges.

How listening to music ‘significantly impairs’ creativity
This was a surprise to me. Although I knew I couldn’t be creative with music with any vocals, this research contradicts the popular view that music enhances creativity. Psychologists investigated the impact of background music on performance. Apparently, background music, with or without lyrics, significantly impaired people’s ability to complete verbal tasks.

~ Linda-Ann Stewart

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3 Ways to Make a ‘Breath Break’ Part of Your Daily Routine
The practice of focusing on your breathing to be calmer and reduce stress has lots of research to back it up. But you get wrapped up in your daily race and forget to begin the day with this valuable strategy. What about fitting in during your day, whenever you get stressed or overwhelmed? It only takes a minute or two to do and will bring you valuable benefits.

Start the Day Strong With This 2-Minute Mindfulness Exercise
Do you start your day by hitting the floor running, and then berate yourself for not setting things up the night before? A bad mood is not a great way to start the day. But you can rewire your brain to more greatly appreciate your strengths and improve your overall mood. Using this simple technique can increase your happiness, self-confidence and self-esteem. It’s worth it to practice this a couple of minutes a day.

Why Physicists Say Your Brain Might Be More Powerful Than Every Computer Combined
Human brains may be quantum computers, which would mean you’re way smarter than any AI. AI fail at many tasks that human brains perform instantly. So, even though computers are taking over many mundane jobs, they’ll never be able to replace the human brain. Read how you can improve your brain in the areas that computers cannot compete with.

~ Linda-Ann Stewart

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How You Can Become A Better And More Inquisitive Listener
Being a good listener is one of the most important skills to thrive in any area of your life. It helps you build better relationships with people who have different communication styles than yours. When you listen more closely, it also means that there are fewer misunderstandings. This article explains what a being a “better” listener means and how can you use this skill for success.

The Mindset for Making the Right Decisions in Life
Your life is based on all the decisions you make, therefore, making the right decisions is vital for you to get what you want. Unfortunately, most people make decisions based on fear, and that won’t lead you forward. Growth-oriented decisions would be better ones. Here are some tips on how to make decisions that allow you to advance in life.

50 Simple Mini-Habits That Actually Help With Anxiety
Anxiety can be debilitating and difficult to combat. You can ease the severity of your symptoms by developing habits that promote a better state of mind. Incorporate practices in your daily life that increase your sense of being centered and less affected by runaway thoughts. Pick a few of these tips to experiment with and see if they help.

~ Linda-Ann Stewart

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The Yogi masters were right — meditation and breathing exercises can sharpen your mind
It has long been claimed by Yogis and Buddhists that meditation and ancient breath-focused practices strengthen our ability to focus on tasks. A new study explains for the first time the neurophysiological link between breathing and attention. The way we breathe directly affects the chemistry of our brains in a way that can enhance our attention and improve our brain health.

A Harvard psychologist describes a simple exercise to reduce your anxiety in stressful situations
When you’re dealing with a stressful situation, anxiety can reduce your effectiveness. There are several techniques that can help, including deep breathing and power poses. But the exercise this psychologist recommends will calm you down and also allow you to feel more authentic.

How to Break a Habit – 5 Steps
Habits are difficult to break. But you can do it. You need commitment, perseverance and a plan. As a hypnotherapist, I used steps similar to these to help my clients break habits and achieve their goals. As you follow these steps, bit by bit, you’ll break the habit that has outlived its usefulness. Just keep at it.

~ Linda-Ann Stewart

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How to Solve Problems Effectively and Ethically
Most people don’t clearly define or agree to what their conflict is. And often, they solve the wrong problem. Once you properly articulate the core problem, the solution often presents itself. Learn the steps to identify the correct problem you need to solve, so you find the solution that addresses the core issue.

Why Daydreaming Can Improve Your Mental Health
Contrary to popular belief, new research shows that a mental break can make you happier and more productive. Not only do you control it, but it can reduce stress and give you a break from your work demands.

Training compassion ‘muscle’ may boost brain’s resilience to others’ suffering
A new study suggests that as little as two weeks of compassion meditation training, which is intentionally cultivating positive wishes to understand and relieve the suffering of others, may reduce the distress a person feels when witnessing another’s suffering. Instead of being upset, the person can learn to be calmer and able to respond in a more balanced way.

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Why Mindfulness Is the Ultimate Habit for Success
You create habits around every area of your life. They free your mind up to focus on the situations that need new decisions. Developing the habit of mindfulness can help you in making those decisions and improve every aspect of your life.

I’m a neurosurgeon, and there’s a 4-step strategy anyone can use to make good habits stick
To build better habits, you should understand how your brain reacts to your behavior. When you establish the right foundation, desirable habits become automatic. Follow these 4 suggestions to create the right atmosphere to create a new habit that will become permanent.

15 Journaling Exercises to Help You Heal, Grow, and Thrive
Documenting your thoughts on paper can acknowledge past, distressing experiences so you can process them and reduce their pain. Studies show that journaling reduce mental and physical pain, improve depression, and improve health. Writing down your thoughts can also be a way of sorting out your thoughts and help your creativity.

~ Linda-Ann Stewart

2 Simple Ways to Calm Stress

2 Simple Ways to Calm Stress

When you feel rushed, pressured or overwhelmed, it triggers the stress response in your body and mind. You act reflexively and can’t think clearly. Learn a couple of very simple tips on how to reverse the stress response and be able to respond more effectively.



Transcript:

Thank you for joining me. I’m Linda-Ann Stewart, a vision strategist coach with a coaching tip for you. Do you ever get rushed or pressured? I’m sure you do, what with everything you have to handle in a day. I want to share a couple of simple techniques that can ease that pressure and improve your ability to handle your challenges.

When you feel anxious or overwhelmed, it triggers the stress response, otherwise called the fight or flight response. You’ve heard of this, right? And when you’re stressed, you can’t think creatively or resourcefully or plan effectively.

Your choices are limited to simply reacting to whatever is happening in that moment. And when you react impulsively, it may not be the best way to handle the situation. Have you ever snapped at someone and then regretted it? That’s what I’m talking about. It’s a reflex.

The remedy is to reverse the stress response. To activate the opposite response. And it’s really simple. Before you react to a situation, or when you need to slow down, stop. Take a few long, slow, deep breaths. This calms the stress response down and allows you to think more clearly. It gives you more resources to handle whatever the situation might be.

And your second tip, wait about 10 seconds to gather your thoughts and before you make a decision or respond to the situation. Remember your mom telling you to count to 10? Well, she was right. This engages the executive center of your brain, the part of you that thinks things through and manages your emotions. You can then make more informed decisions that will bring you better results.

I know these seem too easy to be effective. But they’re natural remedies for when you’re stressed. The fun is trying to remember to do them when you’re stuck in “go, go, go” mode. When you do use them, you’re going to notice a difference.

If you’d like more tips on how to make your day flow more smoothly, download my free guide, Take Control of Your Day.

Thank you for watching. I’d love to hear how these two simple tips work for you. Take care.

Read the accompanying article, The Hurrier You Go, The Behinder You Get.

~ Linda-Ann Stewart