The Resiliency rEvolution: Your Stress Solution for Life - 60 Seconds at a Time

Book serves limited purpose unless you buy the card set designed to facilitate actual exercises.

This isn't just another diet book, and it's not another science book, it's both!I loved the language, super easy to understand and the content was broken down so it was easy to take away.Well worth the read.

I didn't think this book would be so interesting, but I learned how objective, well based and useful it is. This is so beyond self-help and the usual common sense. How come we don't learn this at school?

This book provides a wonderful amount of detail about how stress affects us and what we can do to "play it out" and get rid of it. It's a wonderful and sometimes humorous read.

I really enjoyed this book.

As I began to read this book, I was reminded of the question to which Caroline Arnold responds in Small Move, Big Change: Using Microresolutions to Transform Your Life Permanently: "Why is it so difficult to keep commitments, to follow through on resolutions, to make the changes that we know will achieve our personal growth and professional development?" I am among those who have helped to pave the road to hell so I was especially interested in what she has to say. Years ago, after numerous struggles and frustrations, Arnold tried something different: "I assigned myself a small but meaningful behavioral change -- a [begin italics] microresolution [end italics] -- and I succeeded in changing myself immediately. Yet it was only after succeeding at several microresolutions modeled on the first that I realized I had stumbled onto a method for making targeted mini-commitments that succeeded virtually every time." She had established a new pattern of behavior, a habit. This is precisely what Aristotle has in mind when observing, "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."Jenny Evans recommends a similar approach to coping with stress: "60 seconds at a time." I cannot recall a prior time when there was more -- and more severe -- stress than there is today in all areas of our lives. What to do? According to Evans, "If the stress in your life will continue to in crease [and it probably will], your only option is to train to recover from it more quickly and efficiently and to raise your threshold for it. [begin italics] You've got to build your resiliency [end italics]. In order to be the leader you want to be, the significant other you want to be, the parent you want to be, and the best version of yourself -- in the face of your mounting stress -- you've got to be diligent about how your habits and routines affect your performance." To repeat Aristotle's observation, "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."Evans has written this book to explain how to replace bad habits that are self-defeating defeating and counterproductive with good habits with good habits that can help to accelerate personal growth and professional development. Moreover, much (if not most) of the information, insights, and counsel she provides can help supervisors to assist with the personal growth and professional development of those for whom they are directly responsible.When concluding her book, Jenny Evans reiterates the importance of resiliency training (see Pages 70-76 and 309-310) because "it is something you do for the rest of your life, and I mean this in two ways: It's something you do on a regular basis, and it's for the benefit of the rest of your days." I presume to add a few brief thoughts of my own. First, stress has dozens of sources and its impact can be either positive or negative, depending on the given circumstances. For example, deadlines can create stress but sometimes they are necessary to ensure that work is completed in a timely manner. Also, it is important to differentiate what is important from what seems to be (but often isn't) urgent. This is one of Stephen Covey's most important points in his classic, The 7 Habits of Effective People. Finally, there are direct - and significant - correlations between and among physical, mental, and emotional health. All three require sufficient nourishment, including restoration of energy.

On some level, we all understand that stress has a negative impact on our lives. Unfortunately most of us underestimate the amount of stress we encounter and we certainly don't realize the complex reaction that takes place in our bodies that is triggered by stress. Nor do we understand the proper way to "Play it Out" - the things we need to do to neutralize the stress response.Jenny Evans, author of The Resiliency rEvolution, has written an easy to understand guide for coping with stress.The first thing you will learn from this book is that our culture has evolved much faster than our physical bodies. Our bodies evolve very slowly over a long time. The last 200 years have seen some very dramatic changes in our lifestyles. While many of the changes are good, many others are having a negative impact on our lives.A few thousand years back, the major stressors was finding food and not being food. Today we have ample amounts of food - but much of the food we have is not healthy. We don't have to hunt for food and for the most part we do not need to be stressed about some predator selecting us for lunch.But many people are continuously stressed. We get stressed by our bosses or coworkers. Our relationship partners or children are often sources of stress. And it is almost impossible to drive any distance without becoming stressed.Ms Evans gives an easy to understand but complete discussion about the way our bodies respond to stress. When we experience stress, the brain signals the release of adrenaline and cortisol into the blood stream. This is to allow the body to respond to the fight or flight urge. In the past, the fight or flight would "Play it Out" - bringing the body back into hormonal balance. According to Ms Evans, "Most of your stressors are long-term and ongoing, with no definitive end or closure."Ms Evans gives us plenty of ways to "Play it Out" to bring the stress under control and bring the body hormones back into balance. She then teaches us how to control our environment and how to make changes in our lives.At the end of each chapter are success stories of people who have used The Resiliency rEvolution techniques to make significant changes in their lives.Ms Evans has created a companion product - a set of "Hit the Deck" cards - that will assist you in carrying out your Resiliency rEvolution plan. These cards guide you through a structured workout to help you achieve your "Play it Out" goals. According to Ms Evans, you do not need to devote hours at the gym, doing strenuous exercise. Just 10-10-10 minutes per day (that's 10 minutes, 3 times per day) is all you need.Our stress filled culture and our consumption of unhealthy food has helped to create a very unhealthy lifestyle that robs us of energy and years of life. This is not a diet book. It is a guide to creating a healthy lifestyle with reduced stress.If you are ready for a healthier life the sensible way, this is a great guide.I was provided a review copy of this book.

This engaging book brought to the table a thought provoking way to be a better person - both professionally and personally. It helped me learn ways to better manage my stress and in turn see results in improved health and many other things we all desire. For me, I want to be a better wife, mom and professional and through real life examples and practical solutions, this book provided many different tools to help me accomplish this in my everyday busy life.

great thanks ;)