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Making Stress Work for You

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Language:  English
This book provides the information and strategies necessary to reduce or nullify the impact of stress on your health and performance.
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We live it in stressful times. Some authors refer to it as the age of anxiety. It is more important than ever to understand and identify stress in its various forms and take action to defuse it or avoid it. But some stress is both unpredictable and unavoidable, and it is equally important to build resistance to it and be able to work in harmony with it. This book provides the information and strategies to do this.

About the Author

Harold Taylor, CSP, president of Harold Taylor Time Consultants Ltd., and now operating as Taylor In Time, was a Quality Control Supervisor and Plant Manager in industry for 12 years and a teaching master at Humber College of Applied Arts & Technology in Toronto, Canada for eight years before launching into the consulting business. He has been speaking, writing and conducting training programs on the topic of effective time management for over 35 years. He has written over 20 books, including a Canadian bestseller, Making Time Work for You. He has developed over 50 time management products, including the popular Taylor Planner, which has sold in 38 countries around the world. He has had over 300 articles accepted for publication.

A past director of the National Association of Professional Organizers, Harold Taylor received their Founder’s Award in 1999 for outstanding contributions to the organizing profession. He received the CSP (Certified Speaking Professional) designation in 1987 from the National Speakers Association. In 1998 the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers inducted him into the Canadian Speaking Hall of Fame. And in 2001, he received the first Founder’s Award from the Professional Organizers in Canada. The award has been named in his honor.

Since 1981, when he incorporated the original time management company, he has personally presented over 2000 workshops, speeches and keynotes on the topic of time and life management.

Harold lives in Sussex, New Brunswick, Canada. He writes e-books for Bookboon.com (25 to date), some of which have been translated into other languages, publishes a weekly blog at his website (also posted on Facebook & Twitter), a quarterly time management newsletter for his 2000 plus subscribers, sends out weekly tweets, and speaks to senior’s and other groups on “growing older without growing old” in addition to “time and life management.”

He is active in his local church, a member of the board of directors of Sussex & Area Chamber of Commerce, president of the Fundy Silverados Friendship Club, writes a column on business in the Kings County Record, and performs additional volunteer work in his spare time.

  • About the Author
  • Introduction
  1. Stress and how to recognize it
    1. What is stress?
    2. How to recognize stress
    3. Worried? Action is the best course of action
  2. How we are impacted by stress
    1. Stress can affect your health
    2. Stress affects performance
    3. Stress weakens willpower
    4. Stress curtails memory
    5. Stress impedes decision-making
    6. Stress leads to burnout
    7. Stress is a catalyst for compassion fatigue
    8. Stress interferes with sleep
  3. Sources of stress
    1. Rush-hour traffic
    2. Road rage
    3. Working conditions
    4. Ineffective supervision
    5. Technology
    6. Multitasking
    7. Too much coffee
    8. Self-imposed stress
    9. Beware of second-hand stress
  4. Personality and stress
    1. The risks of Type A personality
    2. Modifying Type A behavior
    3. Are you a Type A person?
  5. Little things mean a lot
    1. Don’t let hassles get you down
    2. Summary of strategies for defusing these daily hassles
    3. Attitude can tame stress
    4. Take the optimistic route
    5. Relationships are a must
  6. Managing the stress in your life
    1. Time to take control
    2. Time to say no
    3. Mindfulness-based stress reduction
  7. Building stress resistance
    1. Learn to tolerate stress
    2. The stress reistance quiz
    3. 25 ways to relieve stress
    4. Balancing high-tech and high touch
  8. Keep your life in perspective
    1. Get off the Fast Track
    2. Keep on top of your work
    3. Patient people show improved performance
  • Books referenced in “Making Stress Work for You“
About the Author
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Harold Taylor