Work Smart Live Smart with Beverly Beuermann-King

Work Smart Live Smart with Beverly Beuermann-King

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  • EP 106 – Managing a Difficult Boss
    It’s the end of the day and you’re exhausted, frustrated and wondering why you put up with your difficult boss. If you have been in this situation before, you know just how much they can impact how you feel about your job, and even your own security and confidence.
    Understanding why some people become more difficult or negative, and when they are more likely to act that way, can prevent you from obsessing about your difficult boss, to the exclusion of all your other colleagues, who were quite pleasant and appreciated your work. By reflecting on your role in these difficult interactions, you will be in a better position to learn strategies to head off and/or counteract the stressful effects of these encounters.
    So here are today’s Hot Tips For Building Your Resiliency and Celebrating Home and Office Safety and Security Week
    The main premise to work from is that difficult people use negative behaviour to get what they want. It has decreased their stress before and they are counting on it to work for them again.
    We must understand not only what people are going through but also what they expect to gain from being so difficult. Some want to feel more in control. Some want to feel important and listened to, and some want to avoid outright conflict, but will act out their annoyance or disagreement through other negative behaviours.
    Our role is to find alternate ways of meeting their needs for control, importance or safety.
    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 105 – Someday We'll Laugh About This
    Humour can help you thrive in change, remain creative under pressure, work more effectively, play more enthusiastically, and stay healthier in the process.
    Humour is an attitude focused on generating positive feelings in yourself and for others. It is an active state and a choice that we make.
    One other advantage of maintaining a sense of humour and being able to freely laugh is that it provides us with a powerful sense of perspective and ability to build relationships with those around us.
    Humour and creativity originate from a lively imagination and the ability to recognize and to appreciate the incongruities of life.
    So here are today’s Hot Tips For Building Your Resiliency and Celebrating Some Day We'll Laugh About This
    Our ability to look at the funny side of life can be developed with practice.
    Post a ‘Murphy’s Law of our Workplace’
    Develop a Humour First-Aid Kit and fill it with your favourite jokes, clippings, and stories
    Make up a humourous response to ‘How are you doing?’
    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.
    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 104 - What You Need To Stay Safe
    I have been taking karate for quite a few years now.  I’m a second degree black belt, so not quite a beginner.  It takes lots of hard practice to get this far…yet I am pretty sure that I would still have a great deal of trouble using it against an attacker, especially one with any size behind them.
    Early in my university years and again when I was working within a college, I took a couple of basic self-defense courses.  They did two things. They enhanced my awareness of the dangers and gave me ideas for options that I could use.  They were definitely worthwhile.
    Fear is powerful.  And so it should be.  Fear keeps us on our toes.  It warns us to not be in dangerous situations.  Even the best karate move is not to be there when the attack comes in.
    So Here are today’s Hot Tips For Building Resiliency and Celebrating Personal Self-Defense Month
    Consider your answers to these questions.
    Do you know what to do if someone grabs you?  If not you may need to take a course on basic self-defense strategies
    Are you aware of your surroundings. Don’t become complacent, even in familiar situations.
    Are you confident in yourself and do you carry yourself in a confident way? Learn how to walk with confidence. This can be the difference of a potential attacker thinking that you are an easy target and them moving on to the next person.
    Take your personal safety seriously.  Be prepared.  Be Aware.  Look like you know what you are doing.
    Want to find more strategies to coping with stress, check out my website at worksmartlivesmart.com
    2 min
  • EP 103 - Everyone Needs More Sleep
    I must have been sleeping. I missed the Festival of Sleep this morning. The celebration is an opportunity to sleep in, snooze, doze, nap, and catch 40 winks. However, I did doze off and I did go to bed early last night, so I guess that I unknowingly celebrated it anyway.
    The Festival of Sleep reminds us that we all could use a little more sleep. Before the light bulb was invented, we use to get on average 10 hours of sleep. Now many of us are lucky to get 6.5 hours of sleep per night. Yet, we know that we need 7-9 hours per night just to stay healthy.
    In fact, I think that we should celebrate the Festival of Sleep for two solid weeks – The week between Christmas and New Years and then the week after New Years. What a great way to end an old year and start a new year.
    So Here are today’s Hot Tips For Building Resiliency and Celebrating The National Festival Of Sleep:
    Obvious tip alert – Go to sleep.
    Watch for those things that interfere or prevent you from getting a good night’s sleep. If you are like the majority (65%) of the population who do not get the right kind or length of sleep, you need to find the right strategies to get a good night sleep. Go to bed at the same time and get up at the same time. Keep your room cool. Block outside noises. Watch the kinds of foods that you eat prior to bedtime. Don’t exercise right before bed.
    Looking for more ways to build your resiliency, take my free on-line vulnerability test at worksmartlivesmart.com under the resources and courses tab.
    2 min
  • EP 102 - Transform Your Thinking
    The pressure is on! Too much to do. No time to think. Be productive. Do more. Uncertain economy. Climate change. Make the right decision. Make it now.
    Your thoughts create your emotional and physical state. How you think and react at any given time determines the decisions or actions you take. Successful people realize that by transforming their thinking that they can master the essential skills for thriving in these turbulent times.
    So Here are today’s Hot Tips For Building Resiliency and Celebrating National Transform Your Thinking Month:
    Look at the decisions that you have made in the past. Have they been the best ones that you could have or should have made. If not, evaluate how you made those decisions and see if there is something that you need to work on.
    Do you have enough tools in your strategy tool belt to deal with the issues and challenges you are facing? Using the S-O-S Principle can help ensure that you deal with issues, stay healthy and are supported during stressful times.
    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
  • EP 101 - New Years Resolution Week
    “This year, I am going to earn my CSP.” That is what I said several years ago at this time. And thankfully, I can say that after many hours of sweating it through, I received my Certified Speaking Professional designation in San Diego, California July 2007.
    For many of us, New Year’s Resolution Week is a time to reflect on the changes that we want and need, and in doing so we compile a list of resolutions. Unfortunately if our resolutions happen not to work out as we had hoped, we tend to put off trying again until the following year.
    So Here is today’s Hot Tip For Building Resiliency and Celebrating New Years Resolutions Week:
    Visualize It
    Many experts agree that the resolution itself is too often equated with the plan when it is only one part of the overall plan. One tip is to visualize the future.  Identify and visualize what feelings will come about by you achieving your goal. Replay this image regularly. The more details the better!
    Everyday is a new challenge to live the way you intend to, according to your passions and purpose. Remember, it takes less effort to stay the same than it does to change. Most goals require stepping outside of your comfort zone and that is why many people give up.
    Looking for more ways to build your resiliency, take my free on-line vulnerability test at worksmartlivesmart.com under the resources and courses tab.
    2 min
  • EP 100 - Looking On The Bright Side
    Every one of us has heard the phrase “Look on the bright side!”
    Look on the bright side is used to refer to focusing on the good part of something that is mostly bad.
    As we head into a new year, let’s focus on these Hot Tips For Building Resiliency and Celebrating Look On The Brighter Side Day:
    #1 It's difficult to look on the bright side when you're surrounded by negativity so be careful who you spend your time with.
    Remove “can’t” from your vocabulary. A defeatist attitude will get you about as far as a car without an engine.
    Be grateful. There are times when looking at the bright side of things can seem out of the realm of possibility. However, it’s important to take a step back and concentrate on what you do have, rather than what you don’t have.
    Finally, It’s OK to make mistakes. Your past mistakes are meant to guide you, not define you. Remember, no one is perfect. Rather than looking at the negative aspects of a mistake that you’ve made, look at the bright side of that mistake and use it as a lesson moving forward.
    So today, I challenge you to look on the bright side of a negative situation and use it to your advantage.
    Looking for more resources to build your resiliency? Check out my Live Smart blog at worksmartlivesmart.com
    2 min
  • EP 99 - A Year In Review
    It is almost the last day of the year. This is the day that many news programs offer up a year in review. What happened that was news worthy. Good, Bad and even the Ugly.
    This is a good time of year to do the same for our own personal life. What was great. What successes did you achieve. What challenges did you face. What didn’t go the way you would have liked. What lessons did you learn.
    All of these questions can help you to put life in perspective and help you to recognize the skills that you have developed that have aided you along the way.
    So Here are today’s Hot Tips For Building Resiliency and Celebrating the New Year ahead:
    Reviewing Your Life Allows You to Know Where You Are. If you don’t want to live this upcoming year exactly the same as your last year, you need to take stock of all that has happened. It is only when you stop and reflect, that you are able to find out, if what you do, is getting you the results you want.
    Ask yourself the question, What Am I Working Towards? If you are serious about living your ideal lifestyle, you must take stock of where you are and where you would like to be.
    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 98 - Are You A Chocoholic?
    I am a chocoholic. I love milk chocolate. Creamy. Rich. Sweet. Delicious. It picks me up when I am down.
    Is this wrong? Not terribly. We all have comfort foods and mine is chocolate. I don’t eat it everyday. My addiction is quite mild most of the time. But there are days when I just have to give in. I have scavenged the cupboards looking for any type of chocolaty morsel. And when I do indulge, I try to do so with very little guilt, (which isn’t always possible).
    It’s About Moderation
    Contrary to popular belief, chocolate isn’t its own food group, but treats are not all bad. Moderation is the key. Eating healthy around the treats is also well advised.
    But I do like my chocolate and I am always glad that my Christmas stocking, is lovingly filled with….Chocolate. My boys use to wondered why Santa only brought mommy chocolate…I told them, it was because daddy wanted mommy to be happy so he wrote it in his letter to Santa to bring me a stocking full of chocolate. And Santa hasn’t let me down yet.
    So hats off to the Mayans and the Aztecs for creating the first chocolaty drink.
    So Here are today’s Hot Tips For Building Resiliency and Celebrating National Chocolate Day:
    I don’t have any, other than to indulge responsibly
    Looking for resources to build your resiliency? Check out my Live Smart blog at worksmartlivesmart.com
    2 min
  • EP 97 - Interrupting Interruptions
    On the last working day of the year, the office is quiet and you are prepared to take advantage of it to get caught up on your work.  The phone rings.  You sigh. Another stressful interruption.
    According to Fast Company the average office worker is interrupted and taken off task every 11 minutes. Even worse, they say that it takes basically that much time to refocus on the task at hand.  Often, we end up compensating for interruptions by working faster and harder, which results in us experiencing more stress. We get frustrated, impatient, annoyed, angry, defeated.  The key to avoid interruptions at work is to find productive ways to minimize and deal with them and keep our emotions in check.
    So Here are today’s Hot Tips For Building Resiliency and Dealing With No Interruptions Day:
    Plan for interruptions.  Know the type of interruptions that you usually encounter and when they are most likely to occur. 
    Limit the opportunities for people to distract you.  If you need time to concentrate on a particular task, block it off in your schedule and let colleagues know that you are not available until a certain time.  Turn off your phone and your email notifiers.  Shut the door.  Book a meeting room just for yourself.
    Watch for your own personal interrupters.  A messy desk, hunger, thirst and curiosity all get in our own way of being as productive as we can.  Organize yourself prior to starting your focused time, not during it.
    Discover how to take small steps towards a healthier, happier, less-stressed you by visiting my website at worksmartlivesmart.com
    2 min

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