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05 Jul

How to make stress your friend!

  • By salomons.coach
  • In Blog, Self & Personal Growth, Video

Stress is healthy! Really!

Stress. It makes your heart pound, your breathing quicken and your forehead sweat. But while stress has been made into a public health enemy, new research suggests that stress may only be bad for you if you believe that to be the case. Psychologist Kelly McGonigal urges us to see stress as a positive, and introduces us to an unsung mechanism for stress reduction: reaching out to others.

I strongly recommend this TED talk. It is in the top 20 most viewed ever. This video can be a breakthrough for you, as it was for me and several of my coachees in the past. Happy watching and learning!

 

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Jan Salomons is an international executive leader turned leadership specialist and executive coach with over 35 years of experience across IT, transport, and semiconductors. His senior roles in HR, L&D, operations, transformation, and portfolio management—combined with work in 50+ countries—give him a rare, practical understanding of how leadership behavior drives organizational success in high-pressure environments. Jan founded Salomons.Coach to help executives and teams create visible behavioral change and measurable results. In 2024, he joined the Harvard Business Review Advisory Council. Today he partners with CEOs and executive teams who want leadership behavior to become the engine of performance and transformation.

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