• How Dr. David Hunnicutt, President of WELCOA, left me speechless. (Or, why I wrote a book about Stress.)

    Updated: 2013-01-31 08:41:25
    I first met David Hunnicutt, the President of WELCOA at the American Journal of Health Promotion Conference in Hilton Head South Carolina. Dr. Hunnicutt was giving the keynote address and I was really impressed by it. I happened to bump into him the next day, and I introduced myself, told him a little about what I did, and I told him how much I liked his speech. A year later when I ran into him again at another conference, he surprised me by saying that he remembered meeting me the year before and that he planned on stopping by my booth the next day.

  • Are You Stress Sensitive?

    Updated: 2013-01-31 08:41:25
    Do you ever wonder if stress affects you more than the average person? Are you easily annoyed or frustrated by minor inconveniences?

  • Ten Things That Will Help You Manage The Stress Of A Hurricane

    Updated: 2013-01-31 08:41:25
    Home Products Stress Tips Webinars Blog Blog Home Past Entries Authors Stop Stress This Minute From Jim Porter and WELCOA Learn More StressStop Blog Ten Things That Will Help You Manage The Stress Of A Hurricane Jim Porter M.A.L.S . President , StressStop.com Monday , October 29th , 2012 Tweet Having lived through many hurricanes and recently through Hurricane Irene , I can tell you that the stress we are all feeling right now is different from the stress we might experience in a traffic jam , at work or in school . This is a kind of low-level stress that builds slowly and doesn't dissipate easily . Different from acute stress the more common variety which comes on fast and dissipates quickly , this stress slowly raises your blood pressure and heart rate and gradually increases muscle

  • Tend and Befriend Meets Fight or Flight

    Updated: 2013-01-31 08:41:25
    When I was growing up my parents constantly stressed the importance of going to college. That idea was pretty much drilled into my head from the day I started kindergarten. "You're not going to get into a good college with grades like that, Jimmy!" My mother would always say, even on some of my earliest report cards. So you can imagine the stress I put them under when, approximately eleven years later, it looked like I wasn't even going to graduate from high school.

  • Ten Things You Can Do To Manage Stress After A Major Storm Or Hurricane

    Updated: 2013-01-31 08:41:25
    Home Products Stress Tips Webinars Blog Blog Home Past Entries Authors Stop Stress This Minute From Jim Porter and WELCOA Learn More StressStop Blog Ten Things You Can Do To Manage Stress After A Major Storm Or Hurricane Jim Porter M.A.L.S . President , StressStop.com Monday , November 19th , 2012 Tweet During the storm or hurricane , your body naturally reacts to the sound of the high winds with a tremendous amount of fear and trepidation . Your amygdala is the part of the brain that watches out for your safety . It's always on the lookout for anything that's remotely threatening : even a loud noise that sounds like a tree falling nearby will start your amygdala firing . So , you can imagine what's going to happen when the trees REALLY DO start to fall . Army recruits and emergency

  • How to Use Your Whole Brain: Changing Your Behavior

    Updated: 2013-01-31 08:41:25
    If you've ever tried to limit your calorie intake you know how challenging it can be to give up your favorite desert or fattening treat. Sometimes we just want what we want and there is no stopping us. The unconscious mind often secretly drives these seemingly "uncontrollable" desires. This leaves your conscious mind wondering: why am I so weak?

  • Ten Tips for Stress Free Travel

    Updated: 2013-01-31 08:41:25
    Home Products Stress Tips Webinars Blog Blog Home Past Entries Authors Stop Stress This Minute From Jim Porter and WELCOA Learn More StressStop Blog Ten Tips for Stress Free Travel Jim Porter M.A.L.S . President , StressStop.com Friday , July 1st , 2011 Tweet Last summer , my niece invited us to her wedding in the tiny town of Bradninch , England which is about three hours south of London in the county of Devon . I decided to turn this wedding invitation into an epic 17-day family vacation with stops in Rome , Florence , Venice , Paris , London and of course , Bradninch . It was an amazing vacation , but a real logistical challenge which included one 12-hour period where we woke up in a Paris hotel , took a high-speed train that morning from Paris to London , met up with my 21 year old son

  • How To Use Your Whole Brain: Redefining The Notion Of Who YOU Are

    Updated: 2013-01-31 08:41:25
    I learned something very interesting about the difference between my conscious mind and my unconscious mind while taking my 16-year old daughter to her first driver's education class. In order to sign her in and pay for the course, I needed to show her learner's permit, which my daughter had handed me moments before. When I saw her a few minutes later, naturally she asked for it back. I looked in my pockets and then in my wallet and it wasn't there. I asked the person at the registration desk and she didn't have it either.

  • Cultivating Gratitude And Being Thankful

    Updated: 2013-01-31 08:41:25
    I went to yoga class on Thanksgiving morning, and when it was over a woman next to me announced with a smile: "Now I can go home and face my in-laws." There's always a bit of a release at the end of a good yoga class where you just kind of let go of whatever it is you are holding on to. The same thing happened to me in a yoga class I took the day before hurricane Sandy rolled through Connecticut. I remember walking into that class feeling anxious and tense and walking out feeling much more at peace and at ease.

  • Yoga and Chronic Pain

    Updated: 2013-01-31 08:41:25
    When I miss yoga for more than a week, a long running bout with chronic pain (which may have to do with an old case of Lyme disease) rears its ugly head. When this chronic pain first hits me I feel a low level ache that runs up and down the backs of my legs. Sometimes, if I let things go long enough, it radiates out into other areas of my body, like my hips. It's hard to describe exactly, except to say, that if I bend down with my legs straight and try to touch my toes the pain is often excruciating.

  • Stress, Multitasking and Attention Span

    Updated: 2013-01-31 08:41:25
    I've never been a fan of multitasking from a stress management perspective and as the result of reading an interesting article in Scientific American Mind Magazine on multitasking a few weeks ago, I've decided that my feeling about multitasking have been confirmed. "Effective multitasking is a myth. So, too, is the idea that members of the 'multitasking generation,' who grew up with video games, smart phones and e-readers, can somehow concentrate on several things at once. In fact, research indicates that frequent multitaskers are often the worst at it."

  • You Teach What You Most Need To Learn

    Updated: 2013-01-31 08:41:25
    Home Products Stress Tips Webinars Blog Blog Home Past Entries Authors Stop Stress This Minute From Jim Porter and WELCOA Learn More StressStop Blog You Teach What You Most Need To Learn Jim Porter M.A.L.S . President , StressStop.com Monday , June 18th , 2012 Tweet When I first got into the stress management business over twenty five years ago , I was stress sensitive see my previous blog entitled : Are You Stress Sensitive and I didn't even know it . Over the first ten years in this business I would occasionally suffer from stress-related health problems and not even fully appreciate the irony , or even care . And that's one of the enduring mysteries of stress : why we don't always see how stress affects us Why we don't see how grumpy we've become , or how easily upset we've become , or

  • Five Guys You Shouldn’t Date – Mallory Schlossberg

    Updated: 2013-01-31 02:32:41
    I’ve dated a lot of men, and I am fairly certain that I now know the five guys you should not date. These are not the types your momma warned you about. In fact, even your best girlfriends might not have even told you about them. However, as your resident All-Things-Man Guru, I am here [...]The post Five Guys You Shouldn’t Date – Mallory Schlossberg appeared first on FunnynotSlutty.

  • Contest: Win Mizuno for Your Valentine

    Updated: 2013-01-29 16:17:45
    Surprise that special runner in your life with a new pair of Mizuno kicks for cupid’s favorite holiday. Find out how to win a pair for you and your Valentine.

  • ...Just to Have a Laugh or Sing a Song...

    Updated: 2013-01-29 14:23:00
    Internal Auditor Login Just to Have a Laugh or Sing a Song . Yesterday I began what is turning out to be an incredibly self-indulgent discussion about my career in auditing how you should never work at what you don't love , how I wound up in auditing , and how come I enjoy it so . nbsp All of this because , at the end of the week , I will be retiring . nbsp I'll get into that whole retirement thing later . nbsp For now , let's pick up the thread where we left off . nbsp How come , in spite of what some people think , auditing is the place to . be What would make anyone stick with one job for 29 and one-half years One of the things I recognize is the incredible luck I've had regarding the situations in which I got to . work First there are the people . nbsp I have made a number of life-long

  • Infographic: The Running Boom

    Updated: 2013-01-28 13:00:25
    Ever hear the phrase “running is contagious”? Well, it appears to be true. And we’ve got the numbers to prove it. Check out an illustration we created that charts the trend of competition road racing.

  • I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together...

    Updated: 2013-01-28 04:16:00
    Internal Auditor Login I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together . Let me start this out with an apology . nbsp This discussion is going to go on for a while probably all week . nbsp And there's a whole lot more personal stuff in this one than normal . nbsp But , if you stick with me here , I think you'll understand why I decided to indulge myself . nbsp If you don't understand Well , it probably wouldn't be the first time . nbsp In fact , did I just make any sense to me It is a 50-degree Saturday morning in Phoenix and I am sitting at my back porch watching it rain , listening to Pandora trademark , or copyright , or patent pending , or whatever little symbol should be next to that name and writing , among other things , this blog . nbsp Now , for most of you , a drizzly day in January is an

  • Sunday Silly: Bipolar – Arms – Skateboard

    Updated: 2013-01-27 19:05:39
    Facebook Friend Suggested It and Chato Stewart Drew It - Sunday Silly Cartoon: On Friday , I asked my Facebook Friends to give me 3 concepts for our Sunday silly cartoon: 1. Disorder/mental diagnosis 2. Part of the Body (other then Brain, and please no genitalia) 3. Type of transportation. THEN I, Chato Stewart, will draw [...]

  • Who Said It’s Hard to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions? – H. Lovelyn Bettison

    Updated: 2013-01-27 16:01:20
    If you’re anything like me The New Year’s Resolutions you made have already gone totally off the rails. That’s okay. Do you know anyone who keeps their New Year’s Resolutions anyway? Self-improvement isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Who really wants to be healthier, smarter, and have fewer bad habits? Not me, that’s for [...]The post Who Said It’s Hard to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions? – H. Lovelyn Bettison appeared first on FunnynotSlutty.

  • If you want to change the world, what’s stopping you?

    Updated: 2013-01-25 14:51:09
    I wrote a blog plost about this on another one of my blogs that I wanted to share. It’s about changing the world. And how a lot of us (especially motivational speakers) talk about it, but never really act on it. Like we’re waiting for some sort of invitation. So here’s your invitation: http://motivational-speakers-review.com/2013/01/25/innovative-thinking/you-want-to-change-lives-so-do-it-already

  • Making Peace With Your Demons

    Updated: 2013-01-25 05:01:42
    Peace – Make ready for War! Making peace with any one is hard. Harder-still is making peace with your WORST CRITIC…our self. That’s why it is always good to make peace with our demons or our Inner CRITIC. Just watch out if they want mediation!   , Demon: “showing the lawyer his forked tongue) Lawyer: [...]

  • A Quick Note about Boxing Up to Leave

    Updated: 2013-01-25 03:45:00
    Internal Auditor Login A Quick Note about Boxing Up to Leave No one really has time on a Friday . nbsp We are all striving for one thing get through the day and get to the weekend . nbsp Accordingly , whenever I actually post on a Friday , I'll make it a quick hit 200 words or less We've seen it in countless movies . nbsp Some poor schmo gets fired and , in the next scene , he is walking out of the office carrying one single box containing his personal . effects Never would have worked for me . nbsp Below , is a picture of my office as I box up 30 years of personal effects in preparation for my retirement . nbsp More on that next week . What does your office cubicle desk look like Does it reflect you , the company , the cubicloids around you , all of the above , none of the above Is it at

  • The Walking “Red”: Taylor Swift Is Leading the Musical Zombie Apocalypse

    Updated: 2013-01-24 17:06:10
    Know what I think? I think Taylor Swift is leading us straight to a musical zombie apocalypse. Clue Number One: her new album–Red. Red, as in Taylor’s going to suck the life blood right out of the radio with her insipid yet ear wormy songs. She’s not gonna stop until we’re glazed over and stumbling all the [...]The post The Walking “Red”: Taylor Swift Is Leading the Musical Zombie Apocalypse appeared first on FunnynotSlutty.

  • Mental Health Prescription Dependency – You Could Be In Danger!

    Updated: 2013-01-24 05:01:58
    Popping Pills! When you rely on a mental health care system that is maxed to it limit and bleeding out, such as what we have here in my town of Florida. Then you can understand that there are many of us uninsured or on Medicaid that fall through the cracks. In concordance with Health Insurance [...]

  • New York City Voices Get A Little Mental Health Humor

    Updated: 2013-01-24 01:59:58
    New Year Goal Accomplished! One of my 2013 goals was to GET a cartoon PUBLISHED and I want to thank the editors at New York City Voices for helping me reach that goal. They are always looking for stories to print (especially if you life in New York). Email them at newyorkcityvoices(at)gmail.com and let hem [...]

  • Can You Blue Sky Audit?

    Updated: 2013-01-21 04:45:00
    Internal Auditor Login Can You Blue Sky Audit Every project that we undertake is something new at least , it should be . nbsp I've told the joke before I'll tell it again : nbsp Why did the auditor cross the road Because he looked in the workpapers and that's what they did last year . nbsp I don't care what type of work you are doing project , audit , or consultation . nbsp I don't care how you currently perceive the project old , new , boring , exciting , redundant , fresh , mindless , or worthless . nbsp I don't care what area you are reviewing expense reports or petty cash or accounts payable or accounts receivable or accounting or pricing or marketing or R D or M A or C C or 7 7 or sales or admin or mad men or product development or employee development or executive development or

  • Sunday Silly: OCD – JunkYard – Skunk

    Updated: 2013-01-20 22:01:29
    Facebook Friend Suggested It and Chato Stewart Drew It - Sunday Silly Cartoon: I asked my Facebook friends to give me 3 concepts for a silly cartoon. Disorder/mental diagnosis Location/situation An animal THEN I, Chato Stewart, would do the seemingly IMPOSSIBLE and try to draw it for today’s Sunday Silly. I got some AWESOME responses! [...]

  • 4 Fashion Predictions for 2014 by World-Renowned Fashion Stylist Héléne Bouffant

    Updated: 2013-01-20 16:28:06
    I am Héléne Bouffant, world-renowned fashion stylist. Welcome to my column on FNS. Most likely, you have not heard my name before. That is because I – like Voldemort – am She-Who-Cannot-Be-Named in the fashion community. It is whispered that if you say my name three times, I shall magically appear and offer you a [...]The post 4 Fashion Predictions for 2014 by World-Renowned Fashion Stylist Héléne Bouffant appeared first on FunnynotSlutty.

  • Snow Day

    Updated: 2013-01-18 17:55:53
    by motivational speaker, Kelly Swanson Wake up, snow. Homeschool canceled. It’s only right. Son jumping up and down and yelling that this is the best day ever. Mom and Dad jumping up and down yelling that this is the best day ever. Cookies for breakfast. It is snow day after all. … Mom goes to ...

  • A Quick Note on Your Happy Place

    Updated: 2013-01-18 03:09:00
    Internal Auditor Login A Quick Note on Your Happy Place No one really has time on a Friday . nbsp We are all striving for one thing get through the day and get to the weekend . nbsp Accordingly , whenever I actually post on a Friday , I'll make it a quick hit 200 words or less We face the daily grind . nbsp We battle the limitless paperwork . nbsp We feebly struggle against the meaningless red tape . nbsp We founder through the pointless procedures . nbsp We cringe during the mind-numbing meetings . nbsp We cower before the unopened emails . nbsp We stagger under the boundless bureaucracy . nbsp We stare blearily at the unblinking computer . screen We work at . work There are times when it is hard to go one whole day sometimes even one whole hour without screaming , crying , kvetching ,

  • #RIP Aaron Swartz – Reddit

    Updated: 2013-01-18 00:08:41
    Pushed Too Far - Sign: Fun With Phobias Chato Stewart: {In Shower peeking out} Caption: Ablutophobia: The Fear Of Taking A Shower Every blogger owes a debt of gratitude to Aaron Swartz with his co-creation of RSS feed.  RSS  or “Rich Site Summary” originally RDF Site Summary, often dubbed Really Simple Syndication of blog content, [...]

  • Interview With Motivational Speaker Kelly Swanson

    Updated: 2013-01-17 17:22:49
    Here’s a link to a radio interview I did. Lots of fun. http://www.cjob.com/Shows/Episodes.aspx?PID=2553

  • You’re Not Perfect – Get Over It

    Updated: 2013-01-17 14:41:46
    How we see ourselves is a huge determining factor in whether we reach our dreams. See yourself as a failure and you will be. See yourself as a loser, and you’ll lose. See yourself as only deserving the crumbs in life, and crumbs are all you will get. It’s time to stop standing in the ...

  • The Stones Visit WIIA

    Updated: 2013-01-16 04:10:00
    Internal Auditor Login The Stones Visit WIIA Hi , and welcome once again to WIIA the home of all the internal audit hits . nbsp Today we've got a very special surprise The Rolling Stones playing one of their biggest internal audit . hits You're the kind of person you meet at certain IIA . affairs Hiding in the crowd with a furrowed brow And a vacant , haunted . stare Cause you work with pride and it hurts inside Every red mark on each . page And though you've tried you just can't hide Your growing since of . rage You better , stop Look , around Here it comes , here it comes , here it comes , here it , comes Here comes that nineteenth report . rewrite When you joined the team they made it seem That you did everything all . right But then they'd complain and review notes came And you were

  • Fun With Phobias: Ablutophobia

    Updated: 2013-01-15 05:24:53
    Fun With Phobias Sign: Fun With Phobias Chato Stewart: {In Shower peeking out} Caption: Ablutophobia: The Fear Of Taking A Shower Ablutophobia is the fear of taking a shower/bath/washing. I think this phobia started right after the Movie Psycho came out. I know when I was a kid, I was scared to shower after I [...]

  • A Quick Note about One Last Thought about Resolutions

    Updated: 2013-01-11 03:18:00
    Internal Auditor Login A Quick Note about One Last Thought about Resolutions No one really has time on a Friday . nbsp We are all striving for one thing get through the day and get to the weekend . nbsp Accordingly , whenever I actually post on a Friday , I'll make it a quick hit 200 words or . less Amazing how things fall together . nbsp Here is one last piece of input regarding resolutions for the coming year a video by zefrank No , the video isn't a resolution , but it has some of the same feel that I was going for on Monday Watch the video , and see if you don't feel the same . way And then , go check out zefrank's web page or follow him on Twitter or just pay attention to the strange things he's doing . nbsp In fact , here's another resolution . nbsp Resolve that , in every way

  • Thinking Back 2012 – Unexpected Journey

    Updated: 2013-01-10 05:15:51
    Per my last post (The World did not End But My Stress Went Through the Roof! ) I mentioned I was a bit behind. I did write this on the 31st but if you read my last post, you would understand why I’m posting it now. If you don’t want to bother reading my last [...]

  • New Year's Resolutions - A Reply

    Updated: 2013-01-09 14:22:00
    Internal Auditor Login New Year's Resolutions A Reply Well , not everyone seems to have agreed with the resolutions I provided last Monday In fact , here is one fan who begs to disagree with my . approach Dear Mr . , Jacka It was with disgust that I read your so-called resolutions for internal auditing . nbsp It was my desperate hope that this was another of your posts which you consider humorous . quot But I was sorely disappointed . nbsp Apparently , you were quite serious . nbsp I admit that I do not understand these attempts at being funny and often have trouble telling if you are joking or not . nbsp In fact , I wouldn't put it past you to pass this letter off as more of your hilarity . quot Not only did these ideas to make us better have little or nothing to do with internal audit ,

  • The World did not End But My Stress Went Through the Roof!

    Updated: 2013-01-09 05:03:41
    This will be quick, I just need to bring you all up to speed. First, we are all glad the world did not end on December 21!  Some of you, my readers, have been wondering where is Chato?? It was as if I fell off the face of the internet after I posted the cartoon [...]

  • Resolutions are Overrated

    Updated: 2013-01-07 04:21:00
    Internal Auditor Login Resolutions are Overrated This Sunday morning , the Starbucks was eerily silent . nbsp Three baristas no waiting . nbsp This was in direct contrast to what I had seen the last few weeks a glut of holiday drinkers lined up to and outside the door waiting for gingerbread lattes , peppermint cappuccinos , pumpkin scones , and , on very rare occasions , a cup of coffee . nbsp I commented on the customerless void and one employee replied that it happened every year . nbsp People made resolutions to not drink as much coffee , not take in as many calories , and not spend as much money , resulting in a slow time for the store . nbsp The four of us discussed it as each one of them prepared one of my three items . nbsp Nice the way that worked out gave each of them something

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