Is your goal to reduce stress right now? Or is it to live a less stressful life? This is the question that many fail to answer when trying to improve their health habits or lifestyle. It’s almost always a choice between the here and now, and long-term health. Those of you who know me and …
Trainer Advice
What Improvement Looks Like in Stress Management
The second word in our act, improve, wait approach is to improve. When you measure outcomes, your improvement is judged against progress made in those outcomes. In some cases, that’s good. If I press the accelerator in my car, I don’t want progress to be measured by how much or how hard I press the …
Measuring Progress in Stress Management
I’d like to talk to you about three words this week. Those words are act, improve and wait. Let’s talk about acting here today. Last week we covered why measuring progress is important, but also addressed how progress is hard to measure when it comes to reducing stress in your life. Sure, we can often …
Measure the Important Things
When it’s difficult to measure what’s important, the tendency is to make the things that we *can* measure more important. So, it’s important to ensure we’re measuring the right thing, and not getting distracted by things that may be easy to measure, but aren’t necessarily important. The reason for this is because success along your …
Beginning to Measure Stress
There are things that are easy to measure, typically because they have a numerical value associated with them–things like height and weight. Then there are things that are more difficult to measure because they are more subjective. The most applicable example here is trying to measure how we feel. Feelings are hard to measure, but …