How to live the life you want without the stress: Thriving not just surviving - more happiness, more success, more time.

By Geoffrey Fairfield

A must-read for anyone grappling with stress, this easy-to follow guide offers a step-by-step approach to help you relax and conquer life's challenges effortlessly. Discover the path to a stress-free life and seize the moment to breathe again! If stress or anxiety is weighing you down and you yearn to enhance th

• Language: English
• Publisher: Geoffrey Fairfield
• Release date: Aug 24, 2023
• ISBN: 9781739671037

Geoffrey Fairfield

Geoffrey Fairfield is an entrepreneur, businessman, coach, Charity Trustee and family man. After qualifying as an accountant and gaining valuable experience for 13 years, Geoff decided to start his own display, signage and lighting business which he rean for nearly 40 years and grew to be one of the largest and most respected display companies in the UK and overseas. Geoff went on to become Chairman of a local care home and help steer it through the pandemic in 2020/21 and then onto further success and growth. With over 50 years in business, Geoff encountered all types of stress, which is common to everyone in businesses. During that time, he developed techniques for dealing with his own stress. As a qualified Master Practitioner in Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), Time Line Therapy and Hypnotherapy, a business and life coach, Geoff has used the latest leading edge techniques to ensure that you beat stress in the fastest time possible.

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Contents

Introduction

Who is this for?

Part 1. Things You Can do When you Feel Stressed

Managing Your State

Meditation

Full Body Relaxation

Some Apps That Can Help You Get Rid of Stress

Exercise

Find a Spot

Breathing Techniques

EFT Tapping

5-4-3-2-1 Technique

Picture the Positive

Phone a Friend or Family

Practise Gratitude

Write it Out

Have Some ‘Me’ Time

Sleeping

Simple Japanese Stress-Reduction Method

Part 2. Understanding stress

Why we need to manage our stress

What is stress?

The Signs of stress

Causes of stress and what you can do about them

Part 3. Getting Your Mindset Right So That You Can Purge Stress From Your Life and Thrive instead of Just Survive.

Take Back Control

Get Clear…

Results vs Reasons (Excuses)

Accept Who You Are

What You Believe Matters

What is a Belief?

Where Do Our Beliefs Come From?

So, How Do I Get Rid of My Negative Beliefs?

What Are Your Roles?

Part 4. Triggers and Boundaries

What Triggers your stress?

Set Boundaries in Your Life and Reduce Your Stress

Part 5. Moving Forward to Calm

What is Your ‘Why’?

Setting Goals to Achieve What you Want

Part 6. Getting the Best From Your Time

Making the Best Use of Your Time

Part 7. Moving forward to calm continued…

What to Stop Doing

Stop the Juggling

What Makes You Happy?

What You Do Best

Things That Annoy or Frustrate You

Focus on Things That Are in Your Control

Getting Help and Final Thoughts

About the Author

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Who is this for?

This book is for anyone who is suffering from the effects of stress… and who isn’t in today’s world?

Anyone working, or in business, today will certainly know what stress is all about. Business, in general, is stressful and the pandemic in 2020-21 has only made it that much worse.

If you are working for someone else, you have a boss. That means you need to work in the way that he/she dictates, which may or may not fit in with your ideal way. Some bosses are great, but others can cause you a lot of stress by putting unnecessary pressure on you.

You can have the pressure of having to work to deadlines that are extremely tight, causing you to have sleepless nights thinking about getting things completed on time.

And don’t mention office politics… This is something that really can be extremely stressful, especially when you are not in control of the outcome.

If you are the boss or the manager of your department then you could have a whole set of different problems.

Firstly, you may constantly be worrying about where the next sale is coming from, how you should be doing your marketing or how you will outsmart the competition.

Of course, making a profit and cash-flow issues will also be on the top of your mind.

Having to recruit, train and manage people is always a major headache. Your best person could suddenly hand in their notice one morning. You might find that the people you have recruited are not performing to the level you have expected or that you can’t find the ideal staff that you need.

And then there are a whole set of problems you might have to deal with whether you are the boss or not…

Regulations in some industries are getting worse and worse. Keeping up to date with them can be a nightmare.

Things such as pandemics, slumps or heavy inflation can come out of the blue.

And of course, do we really even have to mention tax? …

Typically, it goes something like this…

Things happen that are perhaps unexpected and do not fit in with all your well-laid plans.

These things build up and we start to feel stressed, although we may not recognise it initially.

Depending upon what has happened, our reactions may be to work harder or smarter… I just need to do a bit of overtime to get that project completed, or I think I’ll just take this home to get it finished, or someone has let me down, so I’ll just have to do it myself.

If this is a one-off thing, it is not a problem but if the situation continues…

Firstly, your home and/or social life could be affected.

Your health starts to suffer.

You make poor decisions which in turn affects your business results and your finances could be affected.

So you feel you need to work harder still, thinking, let me just get over this and things will be OK. But things continue to get worse.

At some point, a time will come when you realise that things just are not right and you are unhappy with the current situation. You know that some changes are required but you haven’t done anything about it yet. This is the point when you should be taking swift action to correct the situation.

The next stage is ‘thinking and deciding’. You have decided to make some changes and you know what you would like to change.

You start to make changes

You continue with the actions and things are starting to improve.

Eventually you reach a point when you are back on track again. Congratulations- this is the time to celebrate.

Then something happens again to take you off track and so you get regression. You have perhaps slipped back into your old behaviours again.

And so you are back at step 1…

This book will help you deal with the effects of stress whenever you feel them. You will understand how and why stress is caused and you will learn techniques to prevent stress from entering your life and how to deal with it whenever it does.

How this book is structured and how to use this book to get rid of stress so that you can get your life and your business