
Work without Stress: Building a Resilient Mindset for Lasting Success

Churning over emotional upset serves no purpose at all, except to make you miserable and potentially to shorten your life.
Nick Petrie • Work without Stress: Building a Resilient Mindset for Lasting Success
- Connect with your senses.
Nick Petrie • Work without Stress: Building a Resilient Mindset for Lasting Success
- Clarify who actually owns the problem.
Nick Petrie • Work without Stress: Building a Resilient Mindset for Lasting Success
- When you wake up from ruminating, ask the question, “How useful was that?”
Nick Petrie • Work without Stress: Building a Resilient Mindset for Lasting Success
It is equally important that the listener maintain perspective and avoid becoming identified with the discloser’s issues. This is what empathy is.
Nick Petrie • Work without Stress: Building a Resilient Mindset for Lasting Success
- Identify the organization’s change equation.
Nick Petrie • Work without Stress: Building a Resilient Mindset for Lasting Success
- Avoid giving team members things to ruminate about.
Nick Petrie • Work without Stress: Building a Resilient Mindset for Lasting Success
The problem for perfectionists is that they just can’t see the threshold of added value,
Nick Petrie • Work without Stress: Building a Resilient Mindset for Lasting Success
Is your attention on that, or are you absorbed in formulating your reply? Or worse still, are you thinking about what you have planned for the afternoon?