New Skills for Stress
Let's Transform Stress Into Strength
I’m Tom. I’m a Dad with 3 kids, full calendars and long task lists. I’ve endured stress: abuse & divorce, career defeats, and a life-altering accident. Here’s what you need to know…
When shows up we need Skills to transform the everyday worry, conflict, & struggle… into renewal, connection, & strength. Right then, in the moment.
If you’re reading this, I bet you can relate.
Stress
This is how stress came into my life (before I had the right skills):
- MESSING UP career, business, & relationship decisions. (I learned what NOT to do. Then, I uncovered easy basics for winning in all three.)
- FUMBLING in raising 3 kiddos (I tried too hard. I felt not enough. Then, I learned parenting gold for secure, happy, smart kids)
- POORLY leading and managing people (I fell for the common corporate management traps. Then, I reset my paradigms, got out of the way, and watched the team and results grow!)
- ENDURING extreme pain, surgery, and recovery from a mountain bike crash. (I reset focus. I found new meaning. I traded a busy calendar for what mattered most to me)
- SLOWLY discovering new skills for stress. Testing them. Fine tuning. Sharing the most useful findings so you can avoid getting lost or going back to old ways when stress shows up.
Patterns
Along the way, I noticed that the suffering from worry, conflict, and struggle (struggle in relationships, career, health, money, dreams, and more) are patterns based on a bigger problem. Stress.
S T R E S S ! That is the core behind suffering.
To use a driving metaphor; stress can cause us to drift out of our driving lane, across the rumble strips of life, onto the shoulder, and into the ditch (or oncoming traffic, yikes!). The wake-up event is painful, often irreversible.
We need…
New Skills on a Map
Zero stress is bad. Tons of stress is hurts. Somewhere in between is a “green zone” where stress empowers us.
When we drift outside of that green zone, how can we get back easily and quickly? How can we Transform Stress into renewal, connection, strength?
Skills. I discovered 15 stress management skills that help me Transform Stress. They’re not arbitrary or opinion-based. Rather, they are built from 25 years of findings by myself and the best of humanity, simplified on a New Map for a…
Better Path Forward
We can use the skills on this map to avoid drifting off course and going back to old ways. To move our stress meter back to green.
If this feels like a better path forward…
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We can use the skills on this map to avoid drifting off course and going back to old ways. To move our stress meter back to green.
If this feels like a better path forward…
Get my top 3 stress management skills delivered to your inbox. No more caught alone in worry, conflict, or struggle. When stress shows up, you’ll know what to do.