Work Smart Live Smart with Beverly Beuermann-King

Work Smart Live Smart with Beverly Beuermann-King

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  • EP 425 – Family Stories Matter
    “Hold On, It’s Going To Be Okay”
    This saying is part of my family story, along with how my parent’s set up their farm, the struggles that they had, where my grandparents went dancing on the weekends and how they walked up hill both ways to get to school, through 10 foot drifts of snow, even in the spring.
    Family stories shape who we are.
    They directly impact how we see ourselves, our desire to succeed, and even our level of resiliency.
    Family stories give us an idea of where we come from and how we fit into our larger, extended, family.
    Research shows that teens who were able to recount details of their family stories had higher self-esteem and greater resilience than those who couldn’t.
    So Here Are Today’s Hot Tips For Building Your Resiliency And Celebrating Family Stories Matter Month:
    If you have elderly relatives, ask them about their stories. Record them. Share them.
    Ask about the traditions. Ask about the hardships and the triumphs. Stories of perseverance and resilience give us the faith and hope that we can too. Stories of different generations provide insight and understanding. They provoke curiosity to learn more.
    Take the time during family gatherings to ask your children about their stories. You may be surprised at what you may not know about them and their story.
    Finally, write your own story. Some of it is painful. Some brings a smile. Share these so that others can see your story in building their resiliency.
    If you like today’s resiliency tips, let me know. You can leave me a review on amazon or through your #alexa app.
    Looking for more tips to build your resiliency? Look for my book on Amazon called Stress Out. 52 Weeks To Letting More Life In
    2 min
  • EP 424 - Get In The Game
    It is easy just to plunk on the couch and watch TV.
    Especially when you have been overwhelmed by deadlines, projects and family responsibilities. But this does little to build our family bonds.
     So what can?
    Researchers have studied the impact that gaming can have on cognitive abilities, interpersonal relationships and stress levels. The results are overwhelmingly positive: Games strengthen connections in the brain as well as improve connections among friends and family! Kids and adults who play games experience spikes in creative thinking.
    Here Are Today’s Hot Tips For Building Your Resiliency And Celebrating National Game And Puzzle Week
    Dust off your old games and puzzles
    Challenge your family members to a tournament and create some lasting memories filled with time talking, laughing, and playing together
    No family around. No worries, invite your friends and host a game night
    Looking for more tips to build your resiliency? Look for my book on Amazon called Stress Out! 52 Weeks To Letting More Life In
    1 min
  • EP 423 - Everyone Has Bad Days!
    Everyone Has Bad Days!
    We all have a day that is off, but sometimes we feel pressure to pretend that all is good and that we are happy.
    Have A Bad Day is permission to actually have a bad day or to take a mental health day.
    So Here Are Today’s Hot Tips For Building Your Resiliency And Celebrating Have A Bad Day:
    Know that there are friends out there to support you through it.  Let them know that you could use a pick-me-up.
    Don’t try to suppress those negative emotions.  Recognize them for what they are.  Feel them and then move yourself through the situation.
    Know that tomorrow will be different.  It may not be better.  It may be worse.  But it will be different. Just because today was horrible, doesn’t mean tomorrow will be.
    Your goal on these days is just to survive the day and minimize the long-term damage. 
    Remember those times that were good so that you don’t get so tainted by the bad day. 
    Try a do-over.  Sometimes going back to bed and starting the day over can be just the cure that you need!
    Looking for more tips to build your resiliency? Look for my book on Amazon called Stress Out! 52 Weeks To Letting More Life In.
    2 min
  • EP 422 – Is Your Life Under Control?
    My life is too complicated. I feel like I am always rushing to get somewhere. I feel like I don’t spend any quality time with my family. What suggestions do you have for getting my life under control? This is what one conference attendee asked me.
    Many of us feel our lives are too complicated. We rush from one destination to the next – rush through traffic to get to work – then rush back again to pick up the children – and back to rushing from one sporting lesson to the next.
    Rush! We get frustrated.
    In the end we forget how to talk to each other. We don’t remember what it is like to spend quality time together just being.
    Here Is My Hot Tip For Building Resilience and Celebrating National Family Week:
    Trends in our society have been to achieve more, get more, do more.
    A contrary movement is underway called Simplification. It can be hard to do, but the rewards can be great. Simplification means reorganizing your life and routines to focus on the meaningful, and to minimize the chaos.
    The more you can par down your life by simplifying your routines or de-junking your physical space, the less hectic it will be for you and your family.
    Discover how to take small steps towards a healthier, happier, less-stressed you by visiting my website at worksmartlivesmart.com
    2 min
  • EP 421 - Play For The Fun Of It
    Somewhere between childhood and adulthood, we’ve stopped playing. Play can be an important source of relaxation and stimulation for adults as well. It can fuel your imagination, creativity, problem-solving abilities, and emotional well-being.
    Here Are Today’s Hot Tips For Building Your Resiliency And Celebrating National Day Of Play
    Focus your play on the actual experience, not on accomplishing any goal. There doesn’t need to be any point to the activity beyond having fun and enjoying yourself.
    By giving yourself permission to play, you can reap tons of health benefits.
    Play is one of the most effective tools for keeping relationships fresh and exciting. Playing together brings joy, vitality, and resilience to relationships. Through regular play, we learn to trust one another and feel safe.
    Many companies have long recognized the link between productivity and a fun work environment. These companies know that more play at work results in more productivity, higher job satisfaction, greater workplace morale, and a decrease in staff turnover.
    If your company lacks the play ethic, you can still inject your own sense of play into breaks and lunch hours.
    It’s never too late to develop your playful, humorous side.
    Don’t forget that you can find more tips for coping with mental health issues, by checking out my Live Smart Blog at worksmartlivesmart.com.
    2 min
  • EP 420 – Celebrating The Entrepreneur
    They are shapers. Solution lovers. Grabbers of Opportunity.
    They are a special stock of a person. The one who wants to carve their own way in life.
    These entrepreneurs may start their own main street business or launch a tech start up. They may be providing consulting services or building the latest time saving gadget. Thanks to their vision, dedication, sacrifice and drive, these entrepreneurs are driving our countries forward.
    So Here Are Today’s Hot Tips For Building Your Resiliency And Celebrating National Entrepreneurship Week:
    If you know an entrepreneur, thank them. Encourage them. Buy from them.
    If you are an entrepreneur, maintain your balance and remember the reasons why you started your business. Don’t let stress take you off track.
    If you are a successful entrepreneur, mentor someone who is just starting out or is a Futurpreneur and let them learn from the trials and tribulations that you faced along the way
    Consider donating to organizations that do micro lending around the world. These companies help to alleviate poverty and act as a catalyst for positive change in these communities
     
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    2 min
  • EP 419 - The Truth About Stuff
    Is Your Stuff Starting To Take Over?
    I have a lot of stuff!  I use some stuff regularly, some is more seasonal.  There’s also stuff that hardly sees the light of day and other stuff, is just stuff taking up space.
    Now is a good time to look and see how you can use less stuff or get rid of the stuff that you have. 
    Here Are Today’s Hot Tips For Building Your Resiliency And Celebrating Use Less Stuff Day:
    As you are preparing to clean and decorate your home for the holidays, take a few extra moments to evaluate whether or not you need the stuff that you are organizing or cleaning around.
    Get rid of items that are useful, but you have too many of.
    As we cleaned out grandma’s house when she moved into a nursing home, it amazed me how much stuff we really do accumulate over the years. She had piles of bowls, though I could only remember her using one or two favourites. There were things that she had received as gifts that she was waiting for the right occasion to use…in 91 years, I guess that the right occasion never came around.
    Use Less Stuff Day is an awareness day to take stock and make choices about the stuff that we gather, organize and clean around. It is the day to ask if our stuff is taking over our lives. 
    Looking for more tips to build your resiliency? Look for my book on Amazon called Stress Out! 52 Weeks To Letting More Life In.
    2 min
  • EP 418 - Loosen Up Lighten Up
    Humour can help us thrive in change, remain creative under pressure, work more effectively, play more enthusiastically, and stay healthier in the process.
    It has been proven that laughter reduces physical and emotional tension. It is potent but not toxic, low-calorie, organic and absolutely free.
    Here Are Today’s Hot Tips For Building Your Resiliency And Celebrating Loosen Up Lighten Up Day:
    Some of us thing that Life, especially work, is serious and in order to succeed, we must be serious too.
    We need to loosen up and lighten up and we need to be better role models for the next generation. There is nothing more distressing than to see a young adult, so stressed out, about their future. Many of them are developing physical illnesses and mental disorders thought to be experienced only in later adult years.
    Being able to laugh about our situation and ourselves helps us to release the tension, regain our perspective, accept that which we cannot change and experience joy. It also gives us the physical energy and mental resilience needed to survive. So let go of your fears, lighten up, smile, laugh large and fight terminal seriousness.
    Looking for resources to build your healthy workplace? Check out my Top 10 Tips under Resources and Courses at worksmartlivesmart.com.
    2 min
  • EP 417 - If You Can Be Anything, Be Kind
    Far too many of us are feeling isolated, overly challenged and highly stressed.
    World Kindness Day Gives us a chance to reach to others and show them that they are not alone, and the world is not as gloomy as it is often made out to be.
    Numerous scientific studies show that:
    Stress-related health problems improve after performing kind acts.
    Helping can enhance our feelings of joyfulness, boost our emotional resilience, and reduce the unhealthy sense of isolation.
    Here Are Today’s Hot Tips For Building Your Resiliency And Celebrating World Kindness Day:
    Think of those that are closest to you and take a moment to connect with them…phone your grandmother, mother, father, uncle…nothing is more personal than a visit or a phone call so that they can hear your voice.
    Make your son or daughter their favourite meal. Food is one of the main ways that we connect with others.
    Leave a love note for your spouse. Let them know that you still hold them in your heart.
    Make a donation to a charity on behalf of a love one.
    Send an appreciation note to a colleague.
    Being kind to another doesn’t have to cost us anything other than the energy to think of something
    So my challenge to you is to do something to show someone you care!
    2 min
  • EP 416 - Words Hurt: Dealing With A Bully
    “You can’t do anything right”. “This is your fault – It’s always your fault”.
    Many of us have grown up, been in a relationship with, worked for, or even been coached by, someone who was emotionally abusive. It is often seen as a normal part of the culture of the organization and tolerated.
    People who are the target of emotional abuse are made to feel insignificant and incapable. They may actually begin to feel that they have brought this on themselves and that it really is their fault.
    Here Are Today’s Hot Tips For Building Your Resiliency And Celebrating Bullying Awareness Week
    If you are the Recipient of someone else’s abusive behaviour:
    Take precautions – look for the signs of excessive jealousy and control
    Don’t blame yourself for the way other person is treating you
    Believe in yourself – believe that you deserve to be treated with respect
    Trust your instincts – if you feel uncomfortable than this is probably not a healthy relationship
    Talk to someone – find someone you can trust – a family member, friend, co-worker, EAP, supervisor, spiritual leader, community advisor or health professional. Call the Distress Centre and they can help make the appropriate referral. These resources can help you to examine all of your options so that you can decide what is best for you.
    For more information on coping with mental health issues, sign up for one of my on-line courses at worksmartlivesmart.com under the Resources And Courses tab.
    2 min

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