
Work without Stress: Building a Resilient Mindset for Lasting Success

mindful communication means being aware of what’s forming in our minds and making a strategic decision about whether or not to say it.
Nick Petrie • Work without Stress: Building a Resilient Mindset for Lasting Success
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Nick Petrie • Work without Stress: Building a Resilient Mindset for Lasting Success
Letting go isn’t about putting your feet up. It’s about doing the job without the contamination of negative emotion.
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
If you are inflexible, here’s the question: what is it about change that provokes your negative emotions, especially anxiety?
Nick Petrie • Work without Stress: Building a Resilient Mindset for Lasting Success
The appropriate response isn’t, “You idiot, what did you do that for?” but rather, “If you behave like that, it will upset people, so try not to do it again.”
Nick Petrie • Work without Stress: Building a Resilient Mindset for Lasting Success
- Ask yourself three questions when you are in a crisis.
Nick Petrie • Work without Stress: Building a Resilient Mindset for Lasting Success
- Compare the current situation to your life experiences.
Nick Petrie • Work without Stress: Building a Resilient Mindset for Lasting Success
Acknowledge that you can do anything in a mechanical, automated way, or you can be awake and aware of what you’re doing. This brings you out of waking sleep, and it is also what will bring you out of stress.