This highly praised "BusinessWeek" bestseller shows corporates how to get "revved up by stress", rather than becoming fatigued and anxious because of it.

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? 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 understand the difference between productive and destructive stress. • The advantages and disadvantages of stress. • The difference between helpful and hurtful stress (and how to easily tell which is which). • How to effectively cope with stress-provoking events. • How to easily use your attitude to lower your hurtful stress. • How stress arises, so you can choose whether or not to have stress. • Simple and advanced methods for dealing with stress productively. • Effective rules for living that make stress your friend instead of your enemy.

How can we win in a turbulent world that is changing faster than our rate of evolution? Winning is tough and competition is intensifying. Conventional stress management won t tackle the types of stress we face today. Instead of merely surviving a tough month or year, we need battle-tested approaches to anticipate and recover from turbulent situations so that we are even stronger tomorrow. We don t want stress management, we need Stress Leadership. In spite of how challenging things may seem, it is possible to accelerate the progress you and your organisation are making today. Stress and Success will help you to avoid stress induced viral stupidity the mental condition that makes you do foolish things when you need to be at your best. The unique combination of scientific research, coaching, and business and military strategy will help you to maneuver around or through roadblocks and obstacles. This will leave you with the resources you need to create your own future. So, you can blow up, burn out, lose everything and then recover or you can apply the principles in this book and never have to Reviews "Jonathan has written an extraordinarily provocative and excellently researched book. While you can rush to the useful 'How tos, ' I urge you, even beg you, to read and reflect digging into this topic will yield real pay dirt." Tom Peters, author of In Search of Excellence. Stress and Success is a must read for those who work and lead others in high-stakes settings, whether on the battlefield or in the corporate boardroom." Michael D. Matthews, Professor of Engineering Psychology, United States Military Academy, West Point. Brown s ability to translate what we ve learned in war into how you can help yourself in peace is masterful. Michael Duncan Wyly, Colonel, USMC (Ret). Executive Director, Bossov Ballet. "This should be a mandatory read for every busy person. John Molter, Vice President, Global Customer Business Development, Procter & Gamble (Ret.) "Brown offers a comprehensive program for achieving this goal, pages of strategies and techniques that you can start using today and continue for a lifetime. Chet Richards, Author of Certain to Win and long term collaborator with John Boyd. A must read for anyone with a busy and stressful life Dr Paul A Brogan Consultant Paediatric Rheumatologist, ICH and GOSH NHS Foundation Trust. Jonathan Brown has written an impressive volume on how to handle stress, building on his personal experience and years of helping clients with stress problems. Dr Holger Ursin, Professor emeritus, Uni health, University of Bergen, Norway. This book is a terrific mix of practical wisdom and illuminating stories." Paul Z. Jackson, author of The Inspirational Trainer and The Solutions Focus. Stress and Success pulls out practical and real guidance on finding and maintaining a healthy life balance. Listening and acting on it can positively impact your life and improve your leadership." Matthew Crummack, President, lastminute.com. Within this book Jonathan utilises the wisdom of highly successful people, research into high performance, personal experience and good common sense to create a resource that is entertainingly educational and highly practical. David Whitaker O.B.E., Olympic Gold Medal winning coach and business coaching pioneer.

Praise for Overloaded and Underprepared “Parents, teachers, and administrators are all concerned that America’s kids are stressed out, checked out, or both—but many have no idea where to begin when it comes to solving the problem. That’s why the work of Challenge Success is so urgent. It has created a model for creating change in our schools that is based on research and solid foundational principles like communication, creativity, and compassion. If your community wants to build better schools and a brighter future, this book is the place to start.” —Daniel H. Pink, author of Drive and A Whole New Mind “Challenge Success synthesizes the research on effective school practices and offers concrete tools and strategies that educators and parents can use immediately to make a difference in their communities. By focusing on the day-to-day necessities of a healthy schedule; an engaging, personalized, and rigorous curriculum; and a caring climate, this book is an invaluable resource for school leaders, teachers, parents, and students to help them design learning communities where every student feels a sense of belonging, purpose, and motivation to learn the skills necessary to succeed now and in the future.” —Linda Darling-Hammond, Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education, Stanford University “Finally, a book about education and student well-being that is both research-based and eminently readable. With all the worry about student stress and academic engagement, Pope, Brown and Miles gently remind us that there is much we already know about how to create better schools and healthier kids. Citing evidence-based ‘best practices’ gleaned from years of work with schools across the country, they show us what is not working, but more importantly, what we need to do to fix things. Filled with practical suggestions and exercises that can be implemented easily, as well as advice on how to approach long-term change, Overloaded and Underprepared is a clear and compelling roadmap for teachers, school administrators and parents who believe that we owe our children a better education.” —Madeline Levine, co-founder Challenge Success; author of The Price of Privilege and Teach Your Children Well “This new book from the leaders behind Challenge Success provides a thorough and balanced exploration of the structural challenges facing students, parents, educators, and administrators in our primary and secondary schools today. The authors’ unique approach of sharing proven strategies that enable students to thrive, while recognizing that the most effective solutions are tailored on a school-by-school basis, makes for a valuable handbook for anyone seeking to better understand the many complex dimensions at work in a successful learning environment.” —John J. DeGioia, President of Georgetown University

Do you find yourself struggling with constant feelings of fear, worry, and dread just facing each day? Do you frequently tell yourself to "buck up," only to find that the attempt is impossible? Do you blame yourself for your failed efforts and feel you'll never overcome your tirelessly chattering and obsessive mind? Anxiety affects 40 million Americans every year, and the numbers aren't getting better. Many anxiety sufferers feel "cursed" by their overwhelming fears. Eventually, many become physically depleted from the side effects of anxiety, including insomnia, muscle tension, heart palpitations, headaches, and digestion problems, among others. The good news is that there are a multitude of ways to address anxiety and ease its effects on your mind and body. Many artists, public figures, scientists, and others have learned to manage their anxiety and to transform all of that negative energy into success. You can too! Inside Turning Stress into Success: Understanding, Managing, and Overcoming Anxiety, Panic Attacks and Panic Disorder, you'll come to understand what anxiety, panic, worry, and fear mean in your life and how to address each. You'll learn different mental and physical strategies that can alleviate stress and bring your mind back to focus. You'll also look at the different schools of psychology and how to choose a psychologist or therapist that can help you on your journey to become anxiety-free. And lastly, you'll learn about how nutrition and physical health can turn your body and your mind around. You don't have to live behind a wall of fear anymore. Pick up Turning Stress into Success: Understanding, Managing, and Overcoming Anxiety, Panic Attacks and Panic Disorder today, and use the tools within not just to defeat anxiety, but to transform that energy into positive, creative expression and success!

Take Control of Your Writing Life! The creative process can be treacherous, even for the most experienced writer. Facing the blank page, staying inspired, sustaining momentum, managing competing priorities and coping with rejection are just a few of the challenges writers face regularly. The Productive Writer is your guide to learning the systems, strategies and psychology that can help you transform possibilities into probabilities in your writing life. You'll sharpen your productivity pencil by learning how to: • Set clear goals—and achieve them • Create a writing schedule that really works • Discover what keeps you writing, revising, and submitting • Carve out writing time amidst the demands of work and family • Weed out habits and attitudes that are not serving you • Organize your thinking, workspace, papers and files • Increase your odds of publication and prosperity • Use social media to build an author platform • Get comfortable going public and promoting your writing • Create a sustainable writing rhythm and lifestyle • Accomplish what matters most to you Create the writing life you most desire. The Productive Writer will help take you there.

From overflowing priority lists to power-hungry colleagues to nagging parental guilt, stress is the defining characteristic of most of our lives. Sharon Melnick provides a flexible array of stress-busting strategies to help you overcome the things that are weighing you down. You'll gain a veritable arsenal of "magic-bullet" solutions--hundreds of situation-specific, quick-acting tips for defusing stress and boosting productivity complete with quizzes, examples, exercises, and more to help you reach your professional goals.Success Under Stress eschews one-size-fits-all breathing exercises and visualization techniques and instead offers tangible advice to help you see opportunities rather than obstacles, get focused when overwhelmed, find energy when exhausted, stay calm when wired, and change the problem to prevent stress from returning. This practical book helps you gain control and exude calmness and confidence amidst everyday chaos by offering professional-level solutions appropriate to help you manage your big-time stressors.