August 2004 Monday Morning Minute Newsletter

In This Issue:
---- Practical Wisdom
---- 12-Week Coaching Program
---- Wisdom Flashes
---- My Community Network
---- Quote of the Month
---- Fun Link

The Business Athlete

This summer as I am watching the Olympics Games, I realize how we can all learn from the best athletes in the world. Like athletics, business is a game, where we can either triumph to victory or crash to defeat. Athletes prepare day in and day out, aligning their mental, physical, and spiritual capacities so that they may be fully present and perform their skills at an optimal level. 

Like the athlete who tears a ligament or loses passion for the sport, many business professionals over train, over commit, and become overwhelmed by the stresses of work. A client of mine, whom I’ll call Sue, shared with me that her business was slowly sucking away at her soul. The demands of the project she was working on did not have realistic parameters and the new position she had entered with excitement and passion was now eating away at her very core.

Here was a very wise, competent business professional who was going home exhausted at the end of the day, feeling completely defeated by the 12-hour days she was putting in at work and starting to manifest physical symptoms of sleeplessness and headaches.

I know of no faster way to manifest disease and kill your spirit than to ignore your feelings of being overwhelmed, caused by stress at work.

You may adopt the crazy idea, as I have in the past, that if you don’t push yourself beyond your limits in business, you will not be able to make the team and will become homeless, panhandling next to a traffic light at some freeway off ramp looking for your next meal.

If you find yourself, at the end of your day, checking your email, returning calls, while you are cooking dinner, and scanning your mind over all the other things you could accomplish before the sun comes up tomorrow, then you are in a state of overload and could be headed for burnout.

For you, as well as for the Olympic Athletes, the key is to design a game that is challenging yet full of support - support that will help you manage the stressful situations that inevitably arise in the business world. Like being served a 100-mile-per-hour tennis ball by Taylor Dent or swimming like Michael Phelps, who at age 19 survives the pressure of attempting to break world records, you can learn to create new ways to manage stress, which can lead to excitement, health, and longevity.

Check out more on "The Business Athlete” in Wisdom Flashes at right.

 

12-Week Coaching Program

Do you feel like you never have enough time? Are you working hard everyday, but feel like you’re drained and wondering why things are so chaotic? Are you wishing you were more spiritually engaged during your workday? As a business professional, the demands on you are great and it is easy to become overwhelmed—left feeling like you are not obtaining the results you know you can.

Imagine waking up in the morning, excited to get out of bed and go to work, knowing you will be of service to people in the world. When you get home in the evening you have energy left to be fully engaged with family and community.

The 12-week Professional Coaching Program includes a coaching manual to unveil the game you wish to play, 12 coaching calls to guide and help clear what’s blocking you, and unlimited email support between calls so you are not alone as you build the foundation of new structures at work and please forward Practical Wisdom to your neighbors, friends, and colleagues by using the send to friend link below..

The results speak for themselves.
Here are some direct quotes from clients who have experienced the 12-week Program:

“With Jason Stein’s 12-week Coaching Program I have been able to anchor in my spirituality with the practicality of the business day.  This has allowed me to center during chaotic times and give me peace and clarity while raising my incoming referrals by 50%.” 

- Kathy Kendall
Nutraceutical Distributor

“Working with people at the end of their life can be extremely stressful.  The 12-week Coaching Program helped me structure time for meditation and reflection, this has allowed me to be present, letting my fears fall away.  Although my work has not changed, I have and I am now able to bring more mindfulness and honor into my workplace.  The result is a deeper sense of purpose with my work and a greater presence of joy in my life.”

- Carol Thompson
Hospice Services


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503-522-4562.