A journal is a way of recording and reflecting on your inner life. It is a form of expressing yourself freely, trying out outrageous ideas, tapping into your inner wisdom, gaining clarity, recording your dreams, venting emotions, tracking your personal growth, and delighting in unexpected “Ahas”!

There's no right or wrong way to keep a journal. The tools are a notebook and a pen. You can use a computer, and there is even software available to support you in your journaling. However, writing by hand allows you to be more in touch with the right-brained, intuitive part of your nature. The only rule about journaling is “Allow!”

Here are some helpful guidelines:

• Write every day if you can. The morning is an excellent time to write: your mind is fresh; your dreams are still alive. Practice writing your dreams down whenever you can.

• Write for at least 10 minutes. Don't stop. Simply allow the words
to come with no concern for spelling, punctuation or grammar.

• If you get stuck, keep your han...

Improve Workplace Results

Phoenix, AZ (August 27, 2018) –   The Stress & Anger Management Institute, LLC (The SAMI Group) has just announced a new workshop series designed to teach and support busy employees in getting more positive results in their work environments. The program focuses on increasing emotional intelligence and managing stress to increase productivity. The goal is to eliminate the distraction of misunderstandings, provide the tools for effective communications and emphasize personal accountability.

This workshop includes an assessment to measure the participant’s current ability to function in effective communications, monthly group Q&A call, and course materials for $297/participant.


“After working with many decision-makers, executives and corporate leaders, I have seen first-hand the need for quick, concise information that can be used immediately to shift focus, increase productivity and enhance morale. When there is an investment in what matters, everyone wins”, ...

The Ten Commandments for Change

• Expect the best.
• Listen before talking; think before acting.
• Get to the point.
• Change what they do, not who they are.
• Model the behavior you desire.
• Adapt your approach to the person.
• Provide for dignity and self-respect.
• Appeal to self-interest.
• Rejoice at success.
• Cut your losses with remorse, not guilt.

The Agreement Frame

“The Agreement Frame” is made up of three phrases you can use in any communication to respect the person you disagree with, maintain rapport, share what you feel is accurate, and yet never resist their opinion in any way. Here are three phrases:

I appreciate and…

I respect, and…

I agree and…

Eight Ways to Deal with Problems

• Assess the situation
• Meet the difficult behavior head-on
• Stay calm and objective
• Be up-front
• Make it a two-way conversation
• Put yourself in their place
• Be flexible
• Be tolerant

Watch Out - Dangerous misconceptions that cause conflict:

People always pay attention when you are speak...

Move from Ideas to Action - Harness Non-Conscious Brain Power

With our constant stream of emails, voicemails, meetings, conference calls, and so on, it is a minor miracle that any of us can accomplish anything. With our smartphones surgically implanted into our hands, our time is sliced so thinly that we never have the focused time to develop the big-picture perspective required for an action plan, let alone the time to execute it.

"Daily routines, superficial behaviors, poorly prioritized or unfocused tasks leech our capacities—making unproductive busyness perhaps the most critical behavioral problem” in business today, contend Heike Bruch and Sumantra Ghoshal in their book A Bias for Action.

For so many of us—whether CEOs for major corporations, small business owners or solo-entrepreneurs—there is a fundamental disconnection between knowing what needs to be done and doing it. Calling this disconnection the “knowing-doing gap,” Stanford University researchers Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert...

The True Cost Of A Bad Hire

According to the U.S. Department of Labor, the price of a bad hire is at least 30 percent of the employee's first-year earnings. For a small company, a five-figure investment in the wrong employee is a threat to the life of the business. In many ways, a bad hire's effect on company culture echoes beyond the employee's tenure. Poor performers lower the standards for other employees, and bad habits spread like wildfire. Unfortunately, bad hires are not always easy to spot. While we all may say that past behavior is the best indicator of future behavior, we don’t act as if we believe this when we are interviewing candidates—often because we aren’t confident how to ask questions that will tell us about past performance.

The Hiring Smart Program Focus:

• Pre-interview preparation
• Develop better interviewing formats with values-based questions
• Roleplay and practice using behavioral interviewing skills
• Interview techniques for specific, behavior-based example
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Most of us don't get enough sleep on Sunday night because we're anticipating Monday or our busy work week. If you're someone who doesn't get enough sleep on Sunday night, then I want to help you be more productive with less than eight hours of sleep.

Learn how to maximize the benefits of the sleep you do get.

Watch this short video to learn more.

The Highly Effective Executive: How To Reduce Conflict, Inspire Action, And Make A Difference In Your Organization, by Anutza Bellissimo, can make a thoughtful gift for the ambitious, business-oriented person in your life.

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One of our favorite ways to manage stress is the #FlotationTank - AKA "Floating." It's an enjoyable method to reset the nervous system, calm the mind and rejuvenate the body.
Some benefits of #FloatTherapy include:

*Physical Benefits: Increased blood circulation, increased healing abilities, pain management, increased immune system function and used in athletic training.

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Join us every first Friday of the month for a therapeutic #Float. Space Is Limited To 5 Members. Our first meet-up begins January 6, 2017. For more information call (888) 241-1167.

Work stress can easily drive you to feel overwhelmed, anxious and scattered. The Inner Balance™ sensor for Android and iPhone trains you to shift and replace emotional stress with emotional balance and coherence.

Many clients complain of difficulty sleeping, feeling overwhelmed, and irritability with others prior to implementing our stress management training. After a short level one training course, on average, clients share they fall asleep thirty minutes faster, their stress management assessments scores rate significantly higher, and overwhelmingly claim feeling more fulfilled and satisfied in their relationships.

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Everyone gets angry; it’s a normal emotion.

How you handle your anger can make all the difference to your heart. Letting your anger out explosively can be harmful because it triggers surges in stress hormones and injures blood vessel linings. When you have a destructive reaction to anger, you're more likely to have heart attacks.

Studies reveal a positive outlook reduces your heart attack risk by one-third and very optimistic people have lower risks of dying from heart disease.

Learning to communicate your anger assertively can help you feel happier and enjoy healthier relationships.

Heart Breaking Anger Video