Can You Manage Your Stress?

Stress Management: is "working calmly under stress and pressure"

Can you manage your stress? ........... Answer the following questions to find out.

• Are you immediately aware of your feelings of rising stress?
• Do you know stress is inevitable in life? Can you calm yourself down and deal with it productively?
• Are you able to influence stressful events and act to improve the immediate situation?
• Do you have the ability to maintain your composure and avoid aggressive, hostile and irresponsible behavior?
• Can you determine when to push back and when to let go?
• Do you have vitality and strength?
• Have you developed a high tolerance for frustration and learned not to “sweat the small stuff”?

Defintion and Questions from:

Coaching Emotional Intelligence

By Laura Belsten, PHD

2006 LearnMore Communications