15 Shortcuts to Happiness & Health
Stress Stinks!
I believe we can transform stress!
I’m Tom. I’m a parent with 3 kids, a career, color-full calendars, and continuous task lists, (and a passion for Great Lakes boating!). My busy days can easily become stressful. I get flooded, reactive, regretful…not effective, not useful, and I don’t feel good (insert sad face). That’s not who I want to be.
I need to be able to TRANSFORM stress into something useful, fast. I bet you can relate.
Stress
Here’s how I discovered the importance of transforming stress:
- Tripping and failing in career, business, relationships, & marriage (discovering what not to do, then learning core formulas for winning)
- Becoming a parent, 3 times (fumbling a lot, feeling not enough, then learning parenting gold)
- Managing & leading corporate teams for one-third of my life (gaining relationship secrets + leadership musts)
- Operating complex jet aircraft in bad weather & across oceans (managing real risk, multi-tasking pressures, where no one is coming to save you)
- Studying STRESS within mindset, people, strategy, action, & results for 30+ years (uncovering the most useful findings)
Patterns
Along the way I noticed that the suffering from overwhelm, conflict, distraction, & burnout in career, family, and in ourselves 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 causes us to drive out of our 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…
A New Map
Stress is inevitable. So, how can we transform it into clarity, connection, progress, happiness?
I discovered 5 Elements where stress hurts us most: Mindset, People, Strategy, Action, & Outcomes. These 5 Elements are 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…
A Better Path Forward
I help people transform stress, using this new map of shortcuts, to reverse overwhelm, conflict, distraction, and burnout. Feeling more centered, responsive, helpful, happy, healthy. Wouldn’t that feel better?
This Matters
I believe we can transform stress, fast. And I believe doing so matters as individuals, partners, parents, leaders, humans… for Heart, Mind, Mission, and Time Alive!
