The antidote to Stress

24/03/2025

Nice place and view for work today.

12/08/2024

Perfect Sunday afternoon dessert.

29/06/2024

23/01/2023

Come and see us at the Basel ExpatExpo, Jan 29.

27/11/2022

29/08/2022

Beautiful view of Basel from my client’s office this morning

21/07/2022

When it’s hot outside a great place to cool down and relax is out in the water.

29/06/2022

An absolute joy to be sharing from the stage at the GIAF Forum 2022 in Geneva, to a wonderfully engaged audience.

17/05/2022

Celebrating 10 years of Inspire Coaching GmbH by writing a book. Just back from the editor and now out for layout and stuff.

29/03/2022

As I post this it's my Friday afternoon and it's a beautiful day. I'm about to go on a call to a global car manufacturer based in Michigan ...mmm?

We'll be talking, in part, about helping their employees deal with their current stressors, build resilience both personally and as teams and, importantly, understand why it's important to know what emotions they're experiencing.

(hint, emotions drive behaviours)

The thing is, if we don't know or understand the emotional state we are in, how on earth can we always be at our best, being our best self?

And, as it's Friday I have a gift for you. It's an ebook as a pdf about Emotional Management, the first steps in understanding and how to, yep you guessed it, manage your emotions.

Link in comments:

14/01/2022

It's Friday! (somewhere) and time to unwind.

The concept of unwinding is something everyone is already familiar with. It’s the feeling you have when you step through the door of your house after a tough day, or a tough week ... or even just the first week of the new year, and you feel the tension of work fall away.

Unwinding is what happens when you put your feet up and binge-watch your favourite TV show while having a glass of wine. It's how you feel when you first lay down in bed at night, right there in the space where you feel your body sinking into the mattress before you fall asleep.

The dictionary defines unwinding as "relaxing after a period of work or tension," but what do dictionaries know? Unwinding goes beyond this definition. It has a lot to do with stress, worry and overwhelm and how we react, rather than respond, to these things. Unwinding is a mindset, and some would claim, even a way of life.

Let’s look a little closer at the idea of what it means to truly ‘unwind.’

What it Means to “Unwind”

We naturally unwind when we're tired and worn out. It is our body's reaction to a day full of activity. This idea backs up the dictionary definition we talked about just a few moments ago. The problem with this definition is it involves an unconscious reaction to the world around us. So, while it’s helpful to unwind on this level, we don’t have a lot of control over how effective it is, or even when it happens. Even the word “relaxing” doesn’t seem strong enough, does it? Easy to say...difficult to do.

That reason is why it's so important to create a new definition that involves intentional action. Unwinding now becomes an active verb, something you can turn on and off like a switch to help you remove layers of fatigue by breaking free from what’s causing it.

But is this good enough?

Do you bother to unwind?

If you do...what's your "go to" way of unwinding?

I'll share mine if you share yours.



photo by Tim mossholder via unsplash.