How can we spot stress? – Achievement Fulfilment

John Prendergast

After decades of severe anxiety John Prendergast overcame those challenges, building a happier life. Wanting to help others in both every day life and the business environment he took opportunities to train with world leading therapists & trainers including Dr Richard Bandler; co-founder of NLP, Paul McKenna, Brendon Burchard, and others, in EMDT, Hypnopsychotherapy, NLP and more. Now working as a Mind Coach and Psycho-Trauma Therapist he has over 3,000 hours experience helping real people. His past experience of severe anxiety & the satisfaction in helping others drives John to help as many people as possible. His interest in the Mind and Neuroscience grounds his approach firmly in the realities of the human mind and the systems it uses to create our life experience.

Padraig O’Connor

Padraig O'Connor a coach and trainer with a wealth of practical experience Highly qualified in Psychometric testing and Career Coaching and with first hand experience working in large corporations as well as delivering training into business all over the country, Padraig us very passionate about helping people make change in their lives. Over the past number of years he has helped hundreds of people to make lasting, positive change, though services that includes career coaching, business coaching, talent development and training delivery. Having made a massive career change in his own life he now does the things he enjoys and believes in. If I can do it you can too. His core belief is that when you give yourself permission to take control change can begin. Having the skills to guide that change is just a matte of learning.

Many things can feel like similar things so how would someone know if they might be suffering stress?

Here’s 6 common ways it shows itself:

1. Stress comes about when more pressure and bad feeling is taken on-board than we can deal with. It grows slowly in many cases so it can be hard to notice, but there are several sure signs not to ignore. The most common one is becoming irritable, short with people, and a feeling of frustration or anger.

2. Low energy, lack of motivation, and disinterest in things where previously we felt more motivated is a very common sign of stress.

3. Constantly being on alert, noticing small detail, worrying about little things and finding that the mind is always busy are also things that can help us spot it.

4. A big, and often damaging feeling is one of not being as confident, having lower self esteem or valuing ourselves less. Negative beliefs like ‘I’m bad at this’, ‘no one can be trusted’, ‘the office is always bad’ and so on can occur.

5. Anticipating bad feeling and creating more in advance is where many people notice it. Sunday night becoming a time of worry so its as bad or worse than Monday morning, or having a knot in the stomach for days before a meeting are the kind of thing this creates in life.

6. A feeling of ‘what’s the point’ and not wanting to help ourselves sometimes comes with stress, but stress is controllable and can easily be reduced when we decide it’s important enough for us to make change a priority.

The big question, in my opinion, isn’t what label we put on it, but simple seeing clearly where is the opportunity to improve things.

Whatever is present, is it something worth working towards changing? Defining the issue in a more objective way allows us to tackle it and to plan ways to make progress, rather than just react to any bad feeling.

Have a look at how things can get better, then make a plan to act.

Every best wish for success.

As always feel free to get in touch if you have any questions or if you’d like to chat about how life can improve. Tel: 085 1313700www.JohnPrendergastCoaching.com

Have a great day.
John

January 3, 2017 affadmin

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