Do you have a pattern of negative thoughts that clog your mind? Here are three personal effectiveness strategies that can reduce stress at your worksite or at home. Being able to breaks from your thoughts wil begin to render a more calm and peaceful sense of ease. Your common everyday tasks should naturally be done with a relaxed feeling instead of with anxiousness or stress. 1. Breathing technique: inhale and say I am, and then exhale and say calm......fifteen times. Can you do this? Notice what happens...did you mind focus on something else? It sure did! Less tension from your thoughts makes you feel less stressed. 2. Breathing technique 2: inhale for a count of 1 and exhale for a count of 1. Increase the number of seconds you inhale and exhale, each time until you reach seven seconds. Did you focus on something else? Absolutely...and how do you feel? 3. Place your attention on positive thoughts: the more you focus your thoughts on calm, the less stressed you will feel. If you keep thoughts of success and positivity, you will bring more success and positivity into each day. Focusing your thoughts on one thing at a time, increases your energy for completing that task. Personal effectiveness strategies for clearing your mind will open new ways to taking back your personal power, being that calm, less stressed and happy person you know you enjoy. What positive effects have you noticed for