Archive for April, 2011

How to Reduce Your Pain and the Pain of Others

Thursday, April 21st, 2011

photo credit: neoCine In a previous post I described the brain site of negative reinforcement and the brain area controlling this process which is called the PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY (PAG). The PAG also plays a manage role in the body’s management of pain. One way to switch off pain is to directly stimulate the PAG. In [...]

Google Trends for Stress Management

Thursday, April 21st, 2011

The number of people searching online using the words stress management has declined since the year 2000 according to Google Trends. Click here to see the results for the period 2000-2011. Searching by country during March 2011 showed that South Africa, Philippines and India were the highest for the stress management search words. The highest [...]

How to Drive Employees and Customers Away from Your Business

Monday, April 18th, 2011

You can have a fantastic set of goals, a slick organizational structure, and a great determination to succeed but if your attitude to people drives them away then you will fail as a Manager. Every employee receives set-backs from time to time. It’s a normal part of working life. However, if you add to that [...]

How Russell Crowe assisted me to overcome my fear of public speaking

Friday, April 15th, 2011

Steve Little is a Real Estate Agent and Auctioneer in Coffs Harbour NSW and he shared with me a remarkable story of how he overcame his fear of public speaking. Here is the transcript of the interview: “I always wanted to be an auctioneer but I never had the confidence to stand up and do [...]

Reduce Workplace Stress By Seeing People in a New Way

Thursday, April 14th, 2011

http://www.behaviorexchange.com/2011/03/21/eye-contact/ http://alansnel.blogspot.com/2011/04/mutual-courtesy-and-making-eye-contact.html