Posts Tagged ‘anxiety’

Don’t Panic! Stop Worrying and Enjoy Halloween

With Halloween now two weeks away, it’s time to start thinking about Halloween safety. OK, that’s an understatement: if the local news programs are to be believed it’ time to start panicking. Poisoned Pixie Stix, needles-stuck Snickers, and razor-wielding Raisinets lurk behind every Jack-o-lantern-guarded door. Evil ne’er-do-wells lurk ready to pluck your children off the streets and do unspeakable things to them. The dead walk the earth… » Continue

October 17 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: anxiety, fear, halloween, safety, urbanlegend, zombie | 20 comments»

Postcards from over the edge

A few potentially useful thoughts about work and working life.

When you’ve reached enlightenment, your boss will still be a jerk. The good news is that it won’t bother you any more. The secret of maintaining a calm mind is letting go of emotions and refusing to waste energy on fretting about whatever you can’t change. The world is an unsatisfactory place; your boss is an unsatisfactory person. Life is good.
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May 14 2007 | By Adrian | Tagged: anger, anxiety, behavior, personal, relationship, work | 11 comments»

What we have most to fear is fear itself

Have you noticed how often people draw back from trying something new because of fear? Fear that they might not make it; fear that the outcome will not be as good as they hope that it will be; fear that change may prove that what they’ve been doing until now isn’t as good as they’ve made it out to be; fear of being seen to make a mistake—even if that… » Continue

February 5 2007 | By Adrian | Tagged: achievement, anxiety, fear, risk, worrying | 2 comments»

What Are You Worried About?

Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere. - Glenn Turner

We all worry. The same wonderful tools our brain uses to imagine new innovations and solve complex problems, also has a habit of looking for trouble - even when it may not exist.

Mid-terms, budget overruns, bug counts, first dates, performance anxiety - worry likes to stick its nose into every… » Continue

December 5 2006 | By Tony | Tagged: anxiety, performance, strategy, worry | 11 comments»

Why We Should Put an End to “Hamburger Management”

Hamburger Management is a shoddy, debased version of real leadership that focuses on just three things: whatever demands least, can be used fastest, and costs least. It thrives wherever organizations seek to meet unrealistic targets with insufficient resources to maximize short-term profits. Indeed, Hamburger Management is short-term by nature, and will habitually sacrifice long-term advantage and value for the immediate gratification of bosses and investors.

To force people to work long… » Continue

November 6 2006 | By Adrian | Tagged: accomplishment, anxiety, business-ethics, change, civilized-work, competition, creativity, effectiveness, Hamburger-Management, innovation, leadership, lifehacks, Management, manager, micro-management, organization, slow-leadership, strategy, stress, trust, value, work-life, work/life-balance, worklife, workplace | 3 comments»

Speed, Accidents, and Anxiety

You’re driving along the freeway. The traffic is heavy and the weather is bad; there’s water on the road and occasional patches of ice. You’re already late for an appointment and you’re worrying that your boss is going to find out and get mad at you, so you’re driving way too fast for the conditions. Everyone else seems to be in a hurry too. Your hands are gripping the wheel… » Continue

September 4 2006 | By Adrian | Tagged: anxiety, business-fundamentalism, discontentment, fear, insanity, leadership, lifebalance, Lifestyle, living, Management, motivation, organization, overwork, slow-leadership, speed, strategy, stress, work-life, work/life-balance, workflow, working, worklife, worrying | 2 comments»

The Soul of Business

When people speak about the soul — outside of a purely religious context — they’re usually referring to the qualities of something (or someone) that they see as fundamental to its identity. The word “soul” is shorthand for the innermost, truest or most obviously unique nature of whatever or whoever they are referring to.

Used in this way, the word can apply to people (where it means whatever they feel is… » Continue

June 19 2006 | By Adrian | Tagged: anxiety, attitude, balance, behavior, civilization, civilized-work, corporate-culture, happiness, leadership, lifebalance, Management, organization, performance, soul, stress, work-life, work/life-balance, worklife, workspace | no comments»

Burnout

Burnout is a state of fatigue or frustration brought about by excessive devotion to a cause, a way of life, or a relationship that fails to produce the expected reward. Put more simply, it’s what happens when you work flat out and find you’re getting nothing back to make all that effort worthwhile. » Continue

April 10 2006 | By Adrian | Tagged: anxiety, behavior, burnout, health, stress, work-life | 5 comments»

Learn To Manage Your Anxiety And Stresses In Your Life

Do not let your anxiety and stresses overwhelm you during your every day living. It can be tough sometimes to deal with your anxious moments but they will eventually go away. In the meantime, the best thing that you can do is to find those ways that will manage those stresses whether at work or at home.

For instance, many people get stressed out when they have to meet deadlines… » Continue

February 22 2006 | By Guest | Tagged: anxiety, life, stress | 6 comments»