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277 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 2012
"Your nervous system has two parts: (1) an energizing sympathetic nervous system (SNS) and (2) a calming and rejuvenating parasympathetic nervous system (PNS). Your SNS gives you energy to accomplish tasks and tackle problems. It’s wired to keep you focused on the past and solving problems in the way you always have. Your PNS helps you relax, see the big picture, access your intuition, and return stress back to resting levels when you get revved up. It helps you think through the entire set of possible solutions to problems and expands your outlook to be more future
thinking."
TOOL #1 The Mental Reset Three-Part Breath
Breath: Inhale through the nose, hold, exhale through the nose all to the same count (example: inhale 5 counts, hold 5, exhale 5)
Hand Position: Bring together 10 fingertips to balance left and right hemispheres.
Duration: 3 minutes, 1–2x/day, or when overwhelmed.
For enhanced results, do it for one longer period (7–11 minutes)/day.
What are your personal strengths?
Identify the top accomplishments in your life—the ones that you are truly proud of. More than likely, two to three core strengths helped you achieve these accomplishments. These strengths are your success factors. As Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, “Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.” Sculpt your work role around your unique “faculty.”
Often, business owners try to be “all things to all people” instead of concentrating on the strength that comes the most easily to them (and compels other people to purchase from them). “Any time you don’t spend there sets you up for failure,” says Rich Schefren. “Knowing your strengths can also help you work around obstacles in your business. . . . I see my flaws as my flaws and sculpt the business around me. For example, I hired a writer, so if writing sits on my desk for more than three days she does it or finishes it for me so I don’t inhibit our productivity.”7 Hire or trade with someone who has complementary strengths.
What are your unique strengths?
The Top 12 Resilience Strategies for Success Under Stress:
The Golden Rule of Resilience to stress is be impeccable for your 50% in every situation. Here are 12 ways you can do that:
1. Act in the service of your Horizon Point: Instead of reacting to demands, impose control. Define the qualities/attributes of the person you want to be and make your daily purpose to act in the service of this endpoint (Chapter 3)
2. Three-part breath: This 3-minute exercise helps balance the energizing and calming parts of your nervous system and offers you a rapid mental reset (Chapter 4).
3. Sprint-recovery pattern in your day: A scheduling approach that allows you to maintain all day focus and energy by pushing yourself followed by a brief period of rejuvenation. Include exercise and breathing techniques as excellent “recovery” activities (Chapter 4).
4. Eat right, sleep right: Eat a low-sugar, high-protein diet to have longlasting energy without dips throughout the day (Chapter 7). Use Left Nostril Breathing to instantly calm you and help you get to sleep or put you back to sleep (Chapter 4).
5. Cooling breath: This breathing technique keeps you remain cool, calm, and collected instead of reactive in the face of other peoples distress. It helps calm the other person down too (Chapter 10)!
6. “Stories” log: Learn to stop taking things personally by becoming more objective about other peoples behavior and changing your “story”
(Chapter 9).
7. Go Direct!: Learn to stop self imposing stress by building your own self-confidence rather than having to seek other peoples approval or hold yourself back to prevent their disapproval (Chapter 6).
8. A-C-T to eliminate most interruptions: Take control over other people interrupting you by having preset criteria when you will accept, curtail, or triage interruptions (Chapter 5).
9. Clarity is your best time-management tool: Prioritize by having clarity on your role, a strategic objectives/business model, and high value priorities. Then, be more intentional about saying “yes” and “no” to requests (Chapter 5).
10. Panic Reset button: Use the acupressure point to immediately reduce feelings of panic and anxiety (Chapter 7).
11. F-I-R-E technique: When someone else’s behavior stresses you out, influence them by transferring the ownership with this four-step conversation technique (Chapter 11).
12. Be the DJ of your mental iPod: Change your self-critical and fearful self-talk with this technique (Chapter 8).

