Post Date: April 2nd, 2012
By Russell Hunter
An Olympians Perspective
This week I started coaching an amazing athlete currently preparing for the 2012 Olympic Games. His performance to date has been steadily improving, but with less than 130 days to go before the Games, he noticed a growing sense of anxiety starting to develop in him.
After discussing what was underneath this emotionally, he was able to distill it down to a single thought or question, “Will I be able to live up to the expectations of everyone around me?”
Or more succinctly, “Will I be enough”.
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Post Date: December 21st, 2011
Are you Feeling the Stress?
The holiday season is here! 
And we’ve all felt it. That inescapable feeling that we have too much work on our plate, and wonder how in the world we are going to get it all done without going insane.
In comes our old friend Mr. Stress.
What we do in the next six seconds is critical to our engagement levels.
What is Stress?
Uncontrollable demands at work are potential stressors, but not the stress response itself. Stress is the effect we allow these demands to have on us physically, mentally, and emotionally. Read the rest of this entry »
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Post Date: October 26th, 2011
By: Russell Hunter
In early 2009, a group of statisticians at Google embarked on an ambitious study code-named Project Oxygen. Their mission was to find evidence-based ways to build better bosses.
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