If you've ever felt stress -and who hasn't?-chances are excellent that it's because you felt you just didn't have enough time to do what you wanted to at the level of quality to which you were committed. You could be feeling this frustration, for example, because you're focusing exclusively on the demands of the moment: present requests, present challenges, present events. In this stressed and overloaded state, your effectiveness is rapidly diminished. The solution is simple: Take control of the time frame you're focusing upon.
It the present is stressful, then become more resourceful in dealing with your challenges by focusing on the future and the successful completion or resolution of the tasks before you.
This new focus will instantly change your state and give you the very resources you need to turn things around in the present. Stress is so often the result of feeling "stuck" in a particular time frame. One example of this is when a person keeps thinking of their future in disempowering ways. You can help this person or yourself by getting them to refocus on what they can control in the present. Or some people, when they're called upon to take on a challenge, begin to focus exclusively on their past poor performance.
As they remain in the past, their stress increases. A shift to the present, or an anticipation of a positive future,could instantly change their emotional state. Our emotions, then, are powerfully impacted by the time frame in which we're operating at the moment.
It the present is stressful, then become more resourceful in dealing with your challenges by focusing on the future and the successful completion or resolution of the tasks before you.
This new focus will instantly change your state and give you the very resources you need to turn things around in the present. Stress is so often the result of feeling "stuck" in a particular time frame. One example of this is when a person keeps thinking of their future in disempowering ways. You can help this person or yourself by getting them to refocus on what they can control in the present. Or some people, when they're called upon to take on a challenge, begin to focus exclusively on their past poor performance.
As they remain in the past, their stress increases. A shift to the present, or an anticipation of a positive future,could instantly change their emotional state. Our emotions, then, are powerfully impacted by the time frame in which we're operating at the moment.
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