45% of things people worry about never happens - learn how to control the impact worrying has on your life.

DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c33474) has announced the addition of E-Learning Course: Stop Worrying, Start Living to their offering.

Worry can be your biggest enemy. Your job should be to learn how to control worry and minimize its impact on your thinking, your feelings and your performance. In this course, you will learn some of the best ideas ever developed by the highest performing men and women in our society to combat the constant threat of worry and anxiety.

Course Highlights

--Developing Constructive Response to Worry

--The Worry Buster Formula

--Definition of Worry

--Key Attitudes in Dealing with Worry

--Developing an Attitude of Gratitude

Suggested Audience: All Employees

Access to the course is for a period of 30 days.

The course has a randomized 7 to 20 point multiple choice test that is graded on-line for immediate feedback. The user is then given a passing or failing score and can repeat the course as needed to learn the material and pass the test.

This course is available over the Internet using 100 kbs video streaming, so any non-Macintosh user that has high-speed Internet access will be able to view the course.

This is a beginner-level course.

Perhaps the most important ingredient that you have to bring to your work and to your life is your calm, focused, positive mental and physical energy.

Worry can be your biggest enemy. It can rob you of energy, enthusiasm and the ability to concentrate. Excessive worry can cause you physical, mental and emotional problems. When you worry too much, you stop being proactive and start becoming reactive and unresponsive. Your creativity goes out the window.

Your job should be to learn how to control worry and minimize its impact on your thinking, your feelings and your performance. In this session, you learn some of the best ideas ever developed by the highest performing men and women in our society to combat the constant threat of worry and anxiety.

--Law of Concentration: Whatever you dwell upon grows in your life.

--Law of Substitution: Your mind can only hold one thought at a time, positive or negative.

--Worry is one of the biggest problems of the modern world: Your job is to learn how to stop worrying.

The things that people worry about:

--45% - never happen!

--25% - have already happened!

--12% - worries about health.

--10% - petty worries, that you cant do anything about anyway.

--8% - real things, of which 50% are uncontrollable.

Worry comes from three areas:

--What might happen - the future.

--What should happen - the present.

--What should have happened - the past.

Developing a constructive response to worry.

--Live In Daytight Compartments. "Just for today!"

--Cross the bridge when you come to it.

--If it is not necessary to decide, it is necessary not to decide.

Discussion Questions

1. Do you feel you worry too much about things you cant control?

2. Do you worry about experiences from the past? Do you let them affect your decisions in the present or future?

The Worry Buster Formula

1. Define a worry situation clearly, in writing.

2. Determine the worst possible outcome of the situation.

3. Resolve to accept the worst, should it occur.

4. Begin immediately to improve upon the worst.

Discussion Questions

1. Do you ever resolve to accept the worst possible outcome or do you continue to worry about it?

2. Try applying the Worry Buster Formula to a concern you have.

Definition of Worry

--"A sustained form of fear caused by indecision."

--Antidote to worry? Make a decision, take action!

--Get so busy that you have no time to worry.

Discussion Questions

1. Think of an example from your past where your indecisiveness has caused you to worry unnecessarily.

Key Attitude In Dealing With Worry

--Think about solutions, rather than problems.

--Talk and think about the future over the past.

--Accept total responsibility for the results.

--Refuse to make excuses, blame others.

--Say, "If its to be, its up to me!"

Develop an "Attitude of Gratitude."

--Give thanks for all the good things in your life.

--Be thankful for all the events of your day.

--Be grateful for everything that happens.

Overcoming worry and performing effectively is a type of "mental fitness." You can develop it through exercise and repetition. You can resolve, right now, to become one of the positive and most effective people in your field!

Discussion Questions

1. Do you always accept total responsibility for results, or do you sometimes blame others or outside circumstances?

2. Do you practice an "Attitude of Gratitude?"

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