by Annika Sorensen | | Leadership & Corporate, Stress, Your Health
Today I want to talk to you about transparency and how that connects with stress. Have you ever reflected around this? You know transparency to me is to be open, to be clear and to be honest. The opposite is corruption, to do things behind my back or to cheat on others.
The upside of being transparent is the honesty, to be fair about what really is, and to not hide. Of course on the on the downside it can get you enemies because they don’t like that you are open and you can get very lonely for the same reason and also you do get exposed which might be tough and hard. But you’re still being honest.
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by Annika Sorensen | | Leadership & Corporate, Stress, Your Health
You’ve heard me say so many times that stress is a bad thing.
Stress can make you ill and it really does gives you all those really difficult, dangerous diseases like cardiovascular disease and it can be so dangerous if not managed that it might even kill you. That’s what I’ve been telling you all the time right? And that still is true.
But that depends on how you take care of your stress, because new research has found that if you can see stress as a sign that something is wrong and you do something about it, then stress can actually be of good help. (more…)
by Annika Sorensen | | Leadership & Corporate, Stress, Your Health
I am contagious, you are contagious and I’m not talking about a dose of the flu or a cold, or any other infection that may be going around at the moment. I’m talking about your mood and how you behave.
You know, we are all equipped with mirror neurons in the brain, neurons that mirror what we see in other people. So if we meet people that are happy we’d be happy, if we meet people that are grumpy we’d be grumpy.
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by Annika Sorensen | | Health Promotion, Leadership & Corporate, Nutrition & Diet, Stress, Your Health
You are looking forward to the upcoming summer for going to the beach going swimming and putting that nice summer dress on, and then you take a look in the mirror. You see a gloomy, and what you think is fat and floppy body. You feel desperate! “How will I get in shape before the summer? That’s just impossible.”
You think to yourself; “Should I find the diet drinks. Is there some powder meal replacement I should have, should I just stop eating or maybe there is a pill I can take.”
Wait. Wait. Wait.
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by Annika Sorensen | | Health Promotion, Leadership & Corporate, Stress, Your Health
Do you sometimes have an odd feeling about a person in your social circle and you can’t really put your finger on what it is? They are not a line with you, and in a way you sense them as toxic. They are somehow stealing your energy and they don’t give you anything back they just steal from you.
You know what, you are probably right. Because this can be very stressful and it’s very common, and most people have these kind of people somewhere in their relationships.
They are toxic and you know what, maybe someone will think the same about you and you don’t know it. But the point I’m trying to make is that we are all different personalities you know, and that’s just the way it is.
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by Annika Sorensen | | Leadership & Corporate, Stress, Your Health
Have you made New Year’s resolutions and already quit them?
Well welcome to normality, because 95% of everyone who made New Year’s resolutions have quit by January 15. So you’re just normal!
So why is it like this? Well, because people don’t make resolutions from the heart they just say the words that they think they should say, and then the resolution will be enough to make them change.
But that’s not how biology works. You know you need progress to be happy and you have to find things that make you progress, and then you will make changes that will last.
“A resolution is a new solution and that’s what you want.”
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