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24/06/2015 by Lisa McDonald Leave a Comment

How Stress Reduces Your Ability to Achieve Your Goals

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What Is Stress?

Stress is the body’s reaction to a change that requires a physical, mental or emotional adjustment or response.  It’s a person’s physiological response to an internal or external stimulus that triggers the fight-or-flight response.

This primitive response was designed to aid our ancestors survival by preparing the body to tackle or run away from threats.  And as such, served an important purpose – our survival.

How Stress Affects Us

In the wild, once an animal is away from the threat, its body calms and it returns to normal.   However humans are different.  We differ to animals in our response in two key ways: [Read more…]

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17/06/2015 by Lisa McDonald Leave a Comment

Refining Your Time Management Improves Your Life

Are You Kicking Goals With Your Time Management?

If you’re struggling with your time management or you know it needs some tweaking, then it’s time to take a coffee (or what ever you like to drink) break for a little self reflection.

Effective Time Management Facilitates Greater Quality of Life

It is said that good time management can help to add 2 hours a day to a persons life.  Which can make the difference between  [Read more…]

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