Monitor Your Mood During The Day.
There are four basic ways we can feel over the course of the day, The Performance Zone, is the best place to be when you’re working toward a specific goal. When you’re not in this zone, you can’t perform at your best. If you spend too much time in the Performance Zone, you’ll eventually end up in the Survival Zone. In order to avoid this state – toxic to you and to others – you must intentionally move back and forth between the Performance Zone and the Recovery Zone throughout the day, especially when you feel your energy flagging.
Practice Realistic Optimism
The evidence is clear that persistent, negative emotions take a toll on our health, the quality of our relationships, and even our effectiveness on work. When you find yourself feeling like a victim, challenge yourself to tell the most hopeful, empowering story you possible can about the facts. The capacity to envision more positive outcomes has been associated with great persistence, creativity, flexibility and higher performance. Another way to interrupt the cycle of negativity is the stop yourself when you feel it happening, and take a few minutes to write down – preferably in a journal you keep – at least a half-dozen examples of things that are going right in your life, and for which you feel appreciative.
There are four basic ways we can feel over the course of the day, The Performance Zone, is the best place to be when you’re working toward a specific goal. When you’re not in this zone, you can’t perform at your best. If you spend too much time in the Performance Zone, you’ll eventually end up in the Survival Zone. In order to avoid this state – toxic to you and to others – you must intentionally move back and forth between the Performance Zone and the Recovery Zone throughout the day, especially when you feel your energy flagging.
Practice Realistic Optimism
The evidence is clear that persistent, negative emotions take a toll on our health, the quality of our relationships, and even our effectiveness on work. When you find yourself feeling like a victim, challenge yourself to tell the most hopeful, empowering story you possible can about the facts. The capacity to envision more positive outcomes has been associated with great persistence, creativity, flexibility and higher performance. Another way to interrupt the cycle of negativity is the stop yourself when you feel it happening, and take a few minutes to write down – preferably in a journal you keep – at least a half-dozen examples of things that are going right in your life, and for which you feel appreciative.
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