A seminar based on the #1 national best seller by Richard Carlson

How do you react when you're on hold forever; thrown yet another rush project that's due yesterday; or faced with others' thoughtless or irrational behavior? If you're like most people, you fume; fidget; mutter under your breath. The trouble is when you spend your precious time and energy "sweating the small stuff," you sacrifice your potential to achieve happiness and success in your life. As Richard Carlson says, "when you're bothered, frustrated, stressed out and annoyed, all that emotion takes a great deal of energy that could be better spent accomplishing your goals."

Who Can Benefit?

This seminar is for any employees who experience stress (everyone)! It will show how to respond to stressful situations with grace and dignity. You'll learn how to infuse life with greater wisdom and restraint through the M.A.G.I.C.A.L. process, and will see that by altering your attitude, you can alter your life — and boost professional productivity and personal happiness.

How we present this material —

Your trainer will tailor the content of this one-day seminar to address your company's specific needs. Discussions, group exercises and hands-on practice will drive home key coaching skills. In addition, participants will get their questions answered on the spot, receive "real time" coaching, and benefit from the synergy of learning with their co-workers.

Key learning points —

	How to cope more easily with impossible deadlines, heavy workloads and the daily dilemmas that cause stress and burnout
	Become more creative and productive and spend less time being bothered, annoyed or frustrated
	Ways to deal more easily with conflict, power trips and arguments
	How to enjoy a more peaceful, balanced and relaxed lifestyle — both at home and at work
	Learn to use "mind skills" to help you refresh, refurbish and reshape your attitude
	How to break out of "analysis paralysis" and keep from getting bogged with down in emotional doldrums
	How to live and work "in the eye of the storm" without getting flustered, bothered, or blown away
	Learn to "focus on the now", live in the present moment, and stop dwelling on what you could have done yesterday, or should do tomorrow

	Participants will discover new and better ways to deal with daily workplace demands and challenges.
	An enthusiastic, supportive team atmosphere will replace a previously stressful and disharmonious work environment.
	Participants will boost their personal and professional productivity to new highs.

	Pinpoint the stress factors in your life, and create no-sweat strategies for dealing with them
	Learn how to avoid "thought attacks" and prevent them from taking over your life and paralyzing you
	Stop "dramatizing" deadlines and become more productive and efficient
	Identify ways to pull yourself out of harmful "reaction spirals"
	Defuse the power worry has over you with "worry antidotes"
	Let go of the fears that are holding you back — no matter how rational and reasonable they seem
	Harness the dangerous effects of out-of-control "Mental Snowballs" and learn how to catch yourself before you make them
	Deal with negative thoughts positively

	Quick relaxation techniques you can use to buy yourself time, cool down, and step back from stressful situations
	Set yourself free by saying no — kindly, firmly and without guilt
	Lower your tolerance to stress and decrease the amount of stress you're under
	Stop obsessing over what goes wrong and start marveling at how much "goes right"
	Change your life by learning to embrace chaos, rather than struggling against it
	Recognize stress and frustration as distractions to your success
	Learn the value of not "catching every ball thrown to you"
	Become "other focused" — and gain greater satisfaction, peace and rewards from your life
	Discover how being compassionate can help reduce and eliminate stress
	Deal with people who are negative, cynical, passive-aggressive, or have bad attitudes
	Use the power of appreciation to build relationships, communication, and good will
	Analyze personality clashes and identify ways to overcome them — or work around them
	Minimize stress by giving yourself positive encouragement and building your own self-esteem
	Develop "shock absorbers" that can get you through the toughest day at work
	Learn how to live life "in the present moment" and become more focused, effective, and successful
	Discover Richard Carlson's system for living a more "M.A.G.I.C.A.L." life