To my readers:
In this week’s post, I was going to conclude my two part series entitled: “Why do I feel angry when I have no reason to be?”
I decided, however, to alert you to this recent podcast I did with Productivity Expert, Mark Struczewski as I believe you will find the information contained in this interview very useful.
I will publish Part 2 in my next post.
Here is the link…..
https://markstruczewski.com/ed
During this podcast, we discussed the impact that emotions have on productivity with an emphasis on anxiety.
I noted that there are two types of anxiety.
The first is anxiety as distress. This is the emotion you feel that leads you to procrastinate or avoid doing the job that is in front of you. Anxiety is a future based emotion the message of which is: “There MAY be a threat ahead which MIGHT do me harm.”
This is the most commonly recognized form of anxiety.
There is, however, another form of anxiety called eustress which, as an emotion, facilitates productivity because it encourages action.
I discuss both of these forms of anxiety in the podcast.
We also discuss how to deal with both subordinates and superiors, in an office setting, who violate your boundaries when they insist on “visiting” with you. This topic touches upon being assertive and “escalating” as needed. I give specific suggestions for effectively handling these types of situations.
I also discuss the Relationship Prime Directive and how it applies to these types of interactions.
Lastly, but not finally, I talk about anger and how it can develop in a work setting and interfere with productivity.
There is much more to the podcast and I strongly recommend you click over and invest the 30+ minutes it will take to listen to and take notes from the program.
You may decide to listen several times to get all the “meat” you can out of the interview.