How to channel stress positively:
- Know what makes you feel stressed. Make a plan to remove
them, diminish their negative effects or learn to live with them.
- Get to know your body’s stress signals.
Learn to pay attention to what your body tells you.
- It’s a question of dealing with the cause
of your stress signals, not just the symptoms.
- Control your breathing. It is impossible to
breathe calmly and be very stressed at the same time.
- Relax your muscles. Choose a method you
enjoy.
Use long-term stress control methods:
* establish good sleeping habits
* take small breaks in between activités
* exercise regularly
* eat properly - avoid becoming overweight
* organise your day so you can maintain control.
- Your personal quality is closely
connected to your ethics: your moral sense or the way you treat other people.
- Your self-esteem is strengthened
every time you demonstrate, in words, attitude and action, what you believe to
be correct.
- Be loyal to the people in your life.
Make sure they can trust you, count on you and have complete confidence in you.
What to do:
* Keep your promises - meet your deadlines.
* Talk to people not about them.
* Admit your mistakes. Don’t try to rationalize them or
blame other people.
* Don’t spread rumors
* Don’t make disparaging remarks about people who are not
present.
* Don’t criticize a person while other people are present.
* Don’t air disagreements with your family, friends etc. in
public.
* Defend others against unreasonable attacks.
* Say what you believe.
* Don’t pretend other people’s ideas are your own. Base
your progress on your own performance.
* Explain things openly and honestly. Don’t exaggerate.
Don’t lie. Don’t try to hide things. Don’t keep things "secret''.
* Don’t postpone unpleasant decisions or bad news. Be kind,
prompt and straightforward.
- When your AP level is high, you
indirectly help raise the quality level of those around you.
- Fight mediocrity - both in yourself
and in those around you.
- If you are not satisfied with the
quality of something, say so. Bring the lack of quality to the person’s
attention in a positive and constructive way. Make suggestions as how to
improve the quality.
- Do the job and check the quality of
what you’ve done.
- Get others to check their own
work-then you won’t have to do it.
- Check your own work - then other’s
won’t have to check you.
- You should always be able to say
about your own work:
* I checked it
* The quality is OK
* I thought carefully about this assignment
* I did my best
* I’m proud of it
* And I’m proud to put my name on it.
- The children have the best chance of developing a high IP
level in surroundings characterized by:
* love
* tolerance
* trust
* honesty
* openness
* clearly defined goals
* clearly defined limits
* consistency
* people with high AP levels.