Stress for Success, Second Edition
Apie šią el. knygą
• How To Make Stress Work For You
• How To Increase the Advantages of Stress
• How To Choose Positive and Productive Stress
• How To Reject Negative and Destructive Stress
Work With Stress
• Why see stress as your enemy when stress can be your best friend?
• Why fight stress when you can redirect stress to work for you?
• Why suffer from stress when you can succeed with stress?
• For the sake of your happiness, health, resiliency, and prosperity—discover positive stress.
Learn Ways of Helpful Stress
• You will learn helpful ways to make stress work for and not against you.
• You will learn to recognize five different kinds of stress and seven solutions for stress.
• You will discover the difference between productive and destructive stress.
• You will be given tools to increase your productive stress and lessen and even eliminate your destructive stress.
Happiness Is Discovering the Advantages of Stress
• Explore the advantages and disadvantages of stress.
• Learn the difference between helpful and hurtful stress and how to tell which quickly.
• Discover how to cope with stress-provoking events effectively.
• Learn how to use your attitude to lower your hurtful stress efficiently.
• Discover how stress arises, so you can choose whether or not to have stress.
• Learn simple and advanced methods for dealing with stress productively.
• Discover effective rules for living that make stress your friend instead of your enemy.
Overcome Negative Stress
• Discover how to save yourself from the emotional and physical damage caused by negative stress.
• Discover how to use stress positively in ways proven to get positive results.
More Positive Stress & Less Negative Stress
• Yes, you can discover how to choose more positive stress and less negative stress.
• Yes, you, too, can make stress your best friend.
Relate Better to Stress
• Begin today to switch your relationship with stress from relating to stress as a victim to relating to stress as a partner.
• Make stress your path to success.
• Share the gift of positive stress with those you love and care about.
• Teach positive stress at home, school, and work.
• When you help to make positive stress work for yourself and others, you are part of the solution.
Workshop on Stress
• Stress for Success was originally a workshop to help the general public with stress issues.
• This ebook version of Stress for Success, greatly expanded from the original, is short enough that you can read and reread this book to persistently practice the principles covered within until the principles become your new and better habits.
• The table of contents was designed to work both as a direct reminder and as a mnemonic device to help you to remember many of the principles.
• Let us wish you a successful life of stressful contributions and more excellent resiliency in the face of adversity.
• For the philosophically inclined, this book also explores the nature and structure of both balance and power.
Įvertinimai ir apžvalgos
Apie autorių
Be it as a person's counselor or as a founding member of facilities for the homeless, Kevin Everett FitzMaurice, M.S., NCC, CCMHC, LPC, seeks to make others' lives better by helping others improve how they function. As a volunteer, he supports community services to improve others' living conditions. As a counselor, he "counsels" in the traditional sense: advising, directing, and nudging--or pushing--others into facing and resolving their issues.
Mr. FitzMaurice has a variety of formal and advanced training in counseling, which includes Addictions Counseling, Family Therapy, advanced Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), Transactional Analysis (TA), and over 1300 hours of diverse training for continuing education units (CEUs). To make the best use of that extensive training, he takes an integrative approach, grounding himself in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and using the other theories to build upon that one core theory, rather than focusing on multiple theories and mastering none of them.
After more than twenty years in counseling, Mr. FitzMaurice has worked four years in the substance abuse field, directed two community mental health programs, and spent fourteen years counseling in private practice. In that time, he has refined many principles for and methods of counseling. He now puts those principles and methods into book form to share them with a wider audience, so more people can benefit than he can reach in person. Currently, he has more than twenty books written, most of which are available worldwide as e-books from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Sony, Google, Kobo, and Apple.
The philosophical odyssey of Mr. FitzMaurice began in the late '60s. It has remained a mostly self-taught pursuit, with little formal training or education in philosophy. The odyssey started with Western philosophy and a study of pragmatism and atheism. For example, he read every work of Nietzsche that had been translated into English at that time. From there, he moved to the study of Zen, Buddhism, Hinduism, and a misguided experimentation with psychedelics to achieve states of superconsciousness. He continued into Eastern philosophy, pursuing Taoism and J. Krishnamurti. Next came a study of Christianity that started with seven readings of the Old Testament and nine readings of the New Testament from cover to cover, followed by a formal study of Western psychology. The ongoing influences for FitzMaurice's thinking continue to be Christianity, General Semantics, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and an Eastern combination of J. Krishnamurti, Taoism, and Zen.
Academic Credentials: Master of Science (M.S.) in guidance and counseling, with a specialization in agency counseling, from the University of Nebraska. Associate of applied science in human services - chemical dependency counseling (with honors), from Metropolitan Community College.
National Certifications: National Certified Counselor (NCC); Certified Clinical Mental Health Counselor (CCMHC); Family Certification in REBT; Primary Certification in REBT; and Advanced Certification in REBT.
State Licensure: Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Oregon; Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in Iowa; Licensed Independent Mental Health Practitioner (LIMHP) in Nebraska.
Community Service: One of the original founders of the Francis House, Siena House, and Stephen Center homeless facilities still in operation in Nebraska. Supporter of the following charities: OxFam America, Amnesty International USA, Habitat for Humanity, and Green Peace.
