To weather the transition, the starting point is in shifting your mindset. When you have on open and positive mind, you deliver solutions. When you start to focus on challenges, you will start to build protective walls. Focus on what excites you about the new situation — not on what scares you.
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This will help you relax into your role and mitigate self-doubt. Practicing mindfulness techniques, such as meditation and controlled breathing, will develop your ability to stay calm and positively energised in challenging situations. After all, mindfulness is nothing more than being 100% present and positive in the situation. We all have resilience muscles, parts of our personality, which give us power. Study and study on what kind of approach in your attitude (which you always choose) brings the positivity. It can be knowledge that you can solve every problem, or live up to every surprise or that you are extremely good at influencing people. Or maybe you have high conscientiousness, and you know that you have all the details covered.
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Be that running a contentious meeting or making a high-stakes decision, you can rely on your strengths and feel good. To support your mental well being, you need to serve your mind and brain with other activities. Physical activities, even just 15 minutes every day, have a very strong impact on you. With that 15 minutes of high heartbeat activity you can improve your well being and productivity with hour or more every day. Wouldn’t you invest a dollar to get 4 back?
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Success start from within, when you are confident, that you can physically and mentally deal with every challenge. There are 4 corner stones for succeeding; your skills, your attitude, your nutrition habits and lastly the amount of sleep. You won’t succeed unless you take time to care for your overall health. You may be strapped for time, but don’t put off going to your annual medical check-up or dentist.
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With the present world of smartphones and other digital equipment, it is very easy to stay on track of how you do. Lack of sleep equals being drunk. Which often leads to bad behaviour, wrong decisions and eventually failure. Lack of sleep impacts directly your ability to deal with people under stressful situation. We know, that 75% of failures of leaders takes place due to failing in emotional intelligence related matters.
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Taking care of your body and mind is not a hype, it is the solutions of winners. Choice is yours, so is the outcome, failure or success. When was the last time you had a medical check? Or you woke up relaxed, not rushing to work? |