MEMORY-DEVELOPMENT CLASSES OF MINOO JOKHI IN V.T.AREA AND ANDHERI

MEMORY-DEVELOPMENT CLASSES OF MINOO JOKHI IN V.T.AREA AND ANDHERI

Hi; I am mailing to you details of my next Memory-Development Classes; the details of which are as follows:





MEMORY-DEVELOPMENT CLASSES OF MINOO JOKHI


The following are the contents of the course:
1) Introduction to Memory-Development
2) Laws and keys to a perfect Memory.
3) Link-System.
4) How to remember names and faces.
5) Yoga and Meditation Techniques for a perfect Memory.
6) Calculation Tricks to count faster.
7) Ways to develop a super-memory.
8) Concentration Techniques to overcome absent-mindedness.
9) Fast-Reading Skills for an excellent memory.
In addition to the above, there will be many practical things taught and there will be FUN CUM LEARN GAMES and the whole has one objective:
LEARN ONCE AND REMEMBER FOREVER
 The class in V.T. will begin on 8^th November 2013. It is for 5 days i.e. from 8th, 9^th 10^th, 11^th and 12^th November 2013.  The classes will be from 5.30pm to 7.30pm on 8th , 11th and 12^th November and on 9th and 10th November i.e. Saturday and Sunday it will be in the morning from 10.30 am to 12.30 pm The classes will be held at Bai Kabibai School in Bora Bazar, near VT Station. The investment for the course is Rs 2,500.
The class in Andheri will begin on 13^th November 2013. It is for 5 days i.e. from 13th, 14^th, 15^th, 16^th and 17^th November 2013.  The classes will be from 5.30pm to 7.30pm on 13th , 14th and 15^th November and on 16th and 17^th November i.e. Saturday and Sunday it will be in the morning from 10.30 am to 12.30 pm The classes will be held at Hansraj Morarji School in Bhavans College Campus, Andheri (West). The investment for the course is Rs 2,500.

My details are as follows:

MINOO JOKHI:
MOBILE: 9821407519
RES: 22188680/22182246
E-mail: minoojokhi@rediffmail.com
Website: www.minoojokhi.in
Please call me on 9821407519 after you read this mail. Also please forward this email to all your friends who can also do this exciting course. Thank you.
Minoo Jokhi
ps.... I also conduct Private training for students who can't come to the class; this is for your information. Thank you.

MEMORY-DEVELOPMENT CLASSES OF MINOO JOKHI

Hi; I am mailing to you details of my next Memory-Development Classes; the details of which are as follows:



MEMORY-DEVELOPMENT CLASSES OF MINOO JOKHI


The following are the contents of the course:
1) Introduction to Memory-Development
2) Laws and keys to a perfect Memory.
3) Link-System.
4) How to remember names and faces.
5) Yoga and Meditation Techniques for a perfect Memory.
6) Calculation Tricks to count faster.
7) Ways to develop a super-memory.
8) Concentration Techniques to overcome absent-mindedness.
9) Fast-Reading Skills for an excellent memory.
In addition to the above, there will be many practical things taught and there will be FUN CUM LEARN GAMES and the whole has one objective:
LEARN ONCE AND REMEMBER FOREVER
The class in V.T. will begin on 13^th September 2013. It is for 5 days i.e. from 13th, 14^th 15^th, 16^th and 17^th September 2013.  The classes will be from 5.30pm to 7.30pm on 13th, 16th and 17^th September and on 14th and 15th September i.e. Saturday and Sunday it will be in the morning from 10.30 am to 12.30 pm The classes will be held at Bai Kabibai School in Bora Bazar, near VT Station. The investment for the course is Rs 2,500.
 My details are as follows:

MINOO JOKHI:
MOBILE: 9821407519
RES: 22182246/ 22188680
E-mail: minoojokhi@rediffmail.com
Website: www.minoojokhi.in

Please call me on 9821407519 after you read this mail. Also please forward this email to all your friends who can also do this exciting course. Thank you.
Minoo Jokhi
ps.... I also conduct Private training for students who can't come to the class; this is for your information. Thank you.

MEMORY-DEVELOPMENT CLASSES OF MINOO JOKHI STARTS ON 13TH SEP

Hi; I am mailing to you details of my next Memory-Development Classes; the details of which are as follows:



MEMORY-DEVELOPMENT CLASSES OF MINOO JOKHI


The following are the contents of the course:
1) Introduction to Memory-Development
2) Laws and keys to a perfect Memory.
3) Link-System.
4) How to remember names and faces.
5) Yoga and Meditation Techniques for a perfect Memory.
6) Calculation Tricks to count faster.
7) Ways to develop a super-memory.
8) Concentration Techniques to overcome absent-mindedness.
9) Fast-Reading Skills for an excellent memory.
In addition to the above, there will be many practical things taught and there will be FUN CUM LEARN GAMES and the whole has one objective:
LEARN ONCE AND REMEMBER FOREVER
The class in V.T. will begin on 13^th September 2013. It is for 5 days i.e. from 13th, 14^th 15^th, 16^th and 17^th September 2013.  The classes will be from 5.30pm to 7.30pm on 13th, 16th and 17^th September and on 14th and 15th September i.e. Saturday and Sunday it will be in the morning from 10.30 am to 12.30 pm The classes will be held at Bai Kabibai School in Bora Bazar, near VT Station. The investment for the course is Rs 2,500.
 My details are as follows:

MINOO JOKHI:
MOBILE: 9821407519
RES: 22182246/ 22188680
E-mail: minoojokhi@rediffmail.com
Website: www.minoojokhi.in

Please call me on 9821407519 after you read this mail. Also please forward this email to all your friends who can also do this exciting course. Thank you.
Minoo Jokhi
ps.... I also conduct Private training for students who can't come to the class; this is for your information. Thank you.

GREAT OBSERVATIONS

1)  Interesting Observation !
Letters 'A', 'B', 'C' & 'D'
Do Not Appear Anywhere in the
Spellings of 1 to 99
(Letter 'D' Comes For The First
Time in Hundred)

2) Letters 'A', 'B' & 'C'
Do Not Appear Anywhere in the
Spellings of 1 to 999
(Letter 'A' Comes For The First Time
in Thousand)

3)  Letters 'B' & 'C'
Do Not Appear Anywhere in the
Spellings of 1 to 999,999,999
(Letter 'B' Comes For The First
Time in in Billion)
.
And
Letter 'C' Does Not Appear
Anywhere in the
Spellings Of Entire English
Counting.
"C" Appears First time in crore !!

4) Say "silk" five times

    Now spell "silk." 

5) What do cows drink?

      They drink water; not milk.

6) You are driving a bus from London to
Milford Haven in Wales. 

In London, 17 people get on the bus. 

In Reading, six people get off the bus & nine people get on.

In Swindon, two people get off & four get on.

In Cardiff, 11 people get off & 16 people get on.

In Swansea, three people get off & five people get on.

In Carmathen, six people get off & three get on.

You then arrive at Milford Haven.   What was the name of the bus driver?

    You are the bus driver

7) Exercise of the brain is as important as exercise of the muscles. As we grow older, it's important that we keep mentally alert. The saying; "If you don't use it, you will lose it" also applies to the brain.

INTERESTING AMAZING FACTS

                             INTERESTING AMAZING FACTS:

The average lead pencil can draw a line that is almost 35 miles long or you can write almost 50,000 words in English.    

The Taj Mahal is one of the wonders of the world.

Chocolate kills dogs! . A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue! 

The world's tallest woman is Sandy Allen. She is 2.35m (7 ft. 7 in.).

Socrates became famous for asking questions about almost everything  

The mother of all European languages is Sanskrit, which is considered the most suitable language for computer software –

 The earliest maps were made by the Babylonians about 2300 B.C.

The greenhouse effect causes trouble by raising the temperature of the planet.
A zebra is white with black stripes.

All the planets in our solar system rotate anticlockwise, except Venus. It is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

Hummingbirds are the only animal that can also fly backwards.

Insects do not make noises with their voices. The noise of bees, mosquitoes and other buzzing insects is caused by rapidly moving their wings.

The cockroach is the fastest animal on 6 legs  covering a meter a second.

The word "listen" contains the same letters as the word "silent".

The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot.

A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.

The whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.

A hippopotamus can run faster than a man.
'Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia' is the fear of long words.
Didaskaleinophobia is the fear of going to school.
Phobatrivaphobia is a fear of trivia about phobias !!

A snail can sleep for 3 years.

The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start

In 1883 the explosion of the volcano Krakatoa put so much dust into the earth's atmosphere that sunsets appeared green and the moon appeared blue around the world for almost two years.

"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.

Twenty-Four-Karat Gold is not pure gold since there is a small amount of copper in it. Absolutely pure gold is so soft that it can be molded with the hands.

Electricity doesn't move through a wire but through a field around the wire.

Do you know the names of the three wise monkeys? They are: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Say  no evil ).

55 per cent of people yawn within 5 minutes of seeing someone else yawn. Reading about yawning makes most people yawn.      

JANUARY TO JUNE 2013: GOOD OR BAD

A BIG HELLO AND WARM REGARDS TO ALL:

Friends; we are now in July 2013 and it has been a real Difficult year so far. The prices of property were and are constantly rising and now vegetables, milk and all day to day commodities. AMDANI ATTANI KHARCA RUPAIYA...........The incomes of a Individual aren't rising so much in comparison.Or to say are not atall rising. The rupee value has really diminished; the share market is low. And much more than that morally the world has really gone low. we have robberies, dacaities, Rape and now even Acid Attacks; the wonderful young Pretti the recent example. Even buildings collapsing like in Mumbra and above all UTTARAKHAND DESTRUCTION. Not to forget Jiah Khan's unfortunate suicide and the IPL SPOT-FIXING SAGA. OH GOD...PLEASE HELP.........

The tough lasts; they face everything.I am an optimist and I believe that  the worst will also pass. We are living in a world where technology wise we keep on advancing and morally we are at an all time low. The Selfishness, Non-Gratitude, Frustrations, Anger and HATRED is just more and more. Tiny 5 year old GUDIYA was brutally raped; Damini still waits for JUSTICE up in HEAVEN; the poor keep on suffering. OH GOD....PLEASE HELP.......

Yet; despite all this friends do not lose hope. LET US STRIVE TO REMOVE THE DIRT IN YES; LET US ALL IMPROVE AND TRY TO BE BETTER HUMANS; THIS TOO SHALL PASS..........AMEN

MEMORY-DEVELOPMENT CLASSES OF MINOO JOKHI IN V.T.AREA on 3RD MAY AND IN ANDHERI FROM 10TH MAY

Hi; Friends I am mailing to you details of my next Memory-Development Classes; the details of which are as follows:




MEMORY-DEVELOPMENT CLASSES OF MINOO JOKHI


The following are the contents of the course:
1) Introduction to Memory-Development
2) Laws and keys to a perfect Memory.
3) Link-System.
4) How to remember names and faces.
5) Yoga and Meditation Techniques for a perfect Memory.
6) Calculation Tricks to count faster.
7) Ways to develop a super-memory.
8) Concentration Techniques to overcome absent-mindedness.
9) Fast-Reading Skills for an excellent memory.
In addition to the above, there will be many practical things taught and there will be FUN CUM LEARN GAMES and the whole has one objective:
LEARN ONCE AND REMEMBER FOREVER
 The class in V.T. will begin on 3^rd May 2013. It is for 5 days i.e. from 3^rd, 4^th 5^th, 6^th and 7^th May 2013.  The classes will be from 5.30pm to 7.30pm on 3^rd , 6th and 7^th May and on 4th and 5th May i.e. Saturday and Sunday it will be in the morning from 10.30 am to 12.30 pm The classes will be held at Bai Kabibai School in Bora Bazar, near VT Station. The investment for the course is Rs 2,500.

 The class in Andheri will begin on 10^th May 2013. It is for 5 days i.e. from 10th, 11^th, 12^th, 13^th and 14^th May 2013.  The classes will be from 5.30pm to 7.30pm on 10th , 13th and 14^th May and on 11th and 12th May i.e. Saturday and Sunday it will be in the morning from 10.30 am to 12.30 pm The classes will be held at Hansraj Morarji School in Bhavans College Campus, Andheri (West). The investment for the course is Rs 2,500.

My details are as follows:

MINOO JOKHI:
MOBILE: 9821407519
RES: 22182246
E-mail: minoojokhi@rediffmail.com
Website: www.minoojokhi.in

Please call me on 9821407519 after you read this mail. Also please forward this email to all your friends who can also do this exciting course. Thank you.
Minoo Jokhi
ps.... I also conduct Private training for students who can't come to the class; this is for your information. Thank you.

MEMORY-DEVELOPMENT CLASSES OF MINOO JOKHI STARTS 15TH FEBRUARY

Hi;

 I am mailing to you details of my next Memory-Development Classes; the details of which are as follows:

MEMORY-DEVELOPMENT CLASSES OF MINOO JOKHI
The following are the contents of the course:
1) Introduction to Memory-Development
2) Laws and keys to a perfect Memory.
3) Link-System.
4) How to remember names and faces.
5) Yoga and Meditation Techniques for a perfect Memory.
6) Calculation Tricks to count faster.
7) Ways to develop a super-memory.
8) Concentration Techniques to overcome absent-mindedness.
9) Fast-Reading Skills for an excellent memory.
In addition to the above, There will be many practical things taught and there will be FUN CUM LEARN GAMES and the whole has one objective:


LEARN ONCE AND REMEMBER FOREVER
The class will begin in V.T. AREA on 15th February 2013. It is for 5 days i.e. from 15^th, 16th, 17th, 18^th and 19th February 2013.  The classes will be from 5.30pm to 7.30pm on 15^th, 18th and 19^th February and on 16th and 17th February  i.e. Saturday and Sunday it will be in the morning from 10.30 am to 12.30 pm The classes will be held at Bai Kabibai High School in Bora Bazar near Panchampuriwala Hotel in V.T. AREA near V.T. Station. The investment for the course is Rs 2,500.

My details are as follows:
MINOO JOKHI:
MOBILE: 9821407519
RES: 22182246
E-mail: minoojokhi@rediffmail.com
Website: www.minoojokhi.in

Please call me on 9821407519 after you read this mail. Also please forward this email to all your friends who can also do this exciting course. Thank you.
Minoo Jokhi
p.s. I also do personal training at the student’s house; this is for your information.

INTERESTING OBSERVATIONS

1)  Interesting Observation !
Letters 'A', 'B', 'C' & 'D'
Do Not Appear Anywhere in the
Spellings of 1 to 99
(Letter 'D' Comes For The First
Time in Hundred)

2) Letters 'A', 'B' & 'C'
Do Not Appear Anywhere in the
Spellings of 1 to 999
(Letter 'A' Comes For The First Time
in Thousand)

3)  Letters 'B' & 'C'
Do Not Appear Anywhere in the
Spellings of 1 to 999,999,999
(Letter 'B' Comes For The First
Time in in Billion)
.
And
Letter 'C' Does Not Appear
Anywhere in the
Spellings Of Entire English
Counting.
"C" Appears First time in crore !!

4) Say "silk" five times

    Now spell "silk." 

5) What do cows drink?

      They drink water; not milk.

6) You are driving a bus from London to
Milford Haven in Wales. 

In London, 17 people get on the bus. 

In Reading, six people get off the bus & nine people get on.

In Swindon, two people get off & four get on.

In Cardiff, 11 people get off & 16 people get on.

In Swansea, three people get off & five people get on.

In Carmathen, six people get off & three get on.

You then arrive at Milford Haven.   What was the name of the bus driver?

    You are the bus driver

7) Exercise of the brain is as important as exercise of the muscles. As we grow older, it's important that we keep mentally alert. The saying; "If you don't use it, you will lose it" also applies to the brain.

INTERESTING AMAZING FACTS

                             INTERESTING AMAZING FACTS:

The average lead pencil can draw a line that is almost 35 miles long or you can write almost 50,000 words in English.    

The Taj Mahal is one of the wonders of the world.

Chocolate kills dogs! . A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue! 

The world's tallest woman is Sandy Allen. She is 2.35m (7 ft. 7 in.).

Socrates became famous for asking questions about almost everything  

The mother of all European languages is Sanskrit, which is considered the most suitable language for computer software –

 The earliest maps were made by the Babylonians about 2300 B.C.

The greenhouse effect causes trouble by raising the temperature of the planet.
A zebra is white with black stripes.

All the planets in our solar system rotate anticlockwise, except Venus. It is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

Hummingbirds are the only animal that can also fly backwards.

Insects do not make noises with their voices. The noise of bees, mosquitoes and other buzzing insects is caused by rapidly moving their wings.

The cockroach is the fastest animal on 6 legs  covering a meter a second.

The word "listen" contains the same letters as the word "silent".

The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot.

A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.

The whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.

A hippopotamus can run faster than a man.
'Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia' is the fear of long words.
Didaskaleinophobia is the fear of going to school.
Phobatrivaphobia is a fear of trivia about phobias !!

A snail can sleep for 3 years.

The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start

In 1883 the explosion of the volcano Krakatoa put so much dust into the earth's atmosphere that sunsets appeared green and the moon appeared blue around the world for almost two years.

"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.

Twenty-Four-Karat Gold is not pure gold since there is a small amount of copper in it. Absolutely pure gold is so soft that it can be molded with the hands.

Electricity doesn't move through a wire but through a field around the wire.

Do you know the names of the three wise monkeys? They are: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Say  no evil ).

55 per cent of people yawn within 5 minutes of seeing someone else yawn. Reading about yawning makes most people yawn.      

EMAIL ETIQUETTE RULES

·         Email Etiquette Rules

o        Subject

o        Mannerisms

o        Precise and Concise

o        Avoid Long Sentences

o        Language

o        Professionalism

o        Abbreviations and Emoticons

o        Formatting

o        Layout

o        Attachments

o        Signature

o        Include Disclaimers

·         Replying to Emails

o        Reply Swiftly

o        Don't Leave Out the Message Thread

o        Answer All the Questions

o        Reply to All

o        The Cc Field

o        The Bcc Field

o        Read Before You Hit 'Send'

·         Do’s and Dont’s of Email Etiquettes

HOW TO SET AND ACHIEVE GOALS

How to set and Achieve Goals

• When it comes to setting goals, start off with what's important to you in life. Take out a sheet of paper. Sit quietly, and on that sheet of paper, brainstorm what you want to accomplish between now and the end of your life.

• Second step-use another sheet of paper, and this time consider yourself and your personal goals for the next 12 month period. Some key areas in which you might set personal goals include: family, personal growth, financial, health, social, career, hobbies, spiritual, and recreation. Write down the things that you plan to accomplish or achieve or attain during this one-year period?

• Now, as a third step, go back and compare the two goal lists you have made. Make sure that the items on your short-term list will, as you attain them, be helping you attain your long-term or lifetime goals. It is important that what you are doing short term is taking you in the right direction toward your lifetime goals. Please rewrite your short term goals now if you need to.

• As a next step, looking at the goals that are on your list at this time, if there are any that you are not willing to pay the price for, go ahead and cross them out, leaving only those items you are willing to cause to happen in your life. This does not necessarily mean you have the money or the other resources for attaining the goal right now. However, when you do have it, would you spend it on or trade it for the goals you have on your list?

• Now, on still another sheet of paper, create the job goals that are important to you during this upcoming 12-month period. Identify what outcomes you wish to attain or achieve during this one-year period in your specific area of responsibility and authority.

• Some key areas in which you might consider writing job goals, if you did not already, include: quality, quantity, cost control, cost improvement, equipment, procedures, training, sales, financial, and personnel.

• As a next step, look for the blending between your job or work goals and your personal goals. Anywhere you notice that you are attaining a goal on the job while at the same time you are attaining a personal goal, note this relationship: it is in these areas you will be most highly motivated.

• For each of the three lists that you have just created, take an additional sheet of paper and list the activities that you must do to attain the most important goal that you have on each of your lists.

• Now on another piece of paper titled "Things To-Do List" identify from the activities you just listed, the ones that you must do tomorrow to move you toward your most important goal.

• Rewrite your goals in these categories at least every three months.

• The only thing in life that is constant is the fact that everything is changing. It makes sense that our goals will change as we change.

• Recognize how focusing on what you do want, what you do intend to accomplish, also defines what you choose not to do in your life.

• Daily rewrite your list of "Things To-Do" after first reviewing your desired goals.

• Success is defined as "the progressive realization of a worthwhile goal." If you are doing the things that are moving you toward the attainment of your goal, then you are "successful" even if you are not there yet.

• Every step along the way to achieving a goal is just as important as the last step.

• It is not the achieving of a goal that is so important, it is what you become in the process.

• Set goals with your family also. Help children learn this process early in life.

• Decide what you should be accomplishing and then stick to your knitting. Do not attempt to be or do all things for all people.

• Dreams and wishes are not goals until they are written as specific end results on paper.

Apply This to Your Life

• If you ask a co-worker to do something, make sure you'd be willing to do it yourself.
• If you implement new rules for the office, then follow those rules just as closely as you expect everyone else to follow them. For example, if the new rule is "no personal calls at work," then don't talk to your spouse at work.
• Look closely at your own behavior. If you criticize people for interrupting, but you constantly do it yourself, you need to fix this. Yes, you want people to pay attention to one another and listen to all viewpoints, so demonstrate this yourself.

If, in the spirit of goodwill, you make a rule for everyone to leave the office at 5:00 p.m., then you need to do it too. If you stay late to get more work done, your team may feel guilty and start staying late too, which can destroy the whole purpose of the rule. The same is true for something like a lunch break - if you want your team to take a full hour to rest and relax, then you need to do it too.

STRESS DIARIES

Stress Diary
Identifying sources of short-term stress

You're tired. You've had a hard commute. The office receptionist was grumpy and curt when you arrived at work, and you've already dealt with two minor crises today. Then a member of your team spills his coffee over some important work.

Should you have snapped at him? Probably not, but it was the "straw that broke the camel's back" at a time when you were really stressed.

So how can you reduce the levels of stress you experience, so that you can deal with problems in a calm, gracious way; and improve the quality of your life at the same time?

This is where Stress Diaries are useful for understanding the causes of short-term stress that you experience. They help you target and manage the most significant sources of stress in your life, and they help you think about how you handle stress, so that you can learn to deal with it better.

Introducing Stress Diaries

The idea behind Stress Diaries is that, on a regular basis, you record information about the stresses you are experiencing, so that you can identify repeating patterns and then manage them. This is important because these stresses often flit in and out of our minds without getting the attention and focus that they deserve.

As well as helping you capture and analyze the most common sources of stress in your life, Stress Diaries help you to understand:

• The causes of stress in more detail.
• How you react to stress, and whether your reactions are appropriate and useful.
• Stress Diaries, therefore, give you the important information that you need to manage stress.
  
  Using the Tool:
  
  Stress Diaries are useful in that they gather information regularly and routinely, over a period of time. This helps you to separate the common, routine stresses from those that only occur occasionally. By targeting repeating or major sources of stress, you can hopefully significantly reduce overall stress levels with a minimum amount of effort.
  How much stress you can tolerate before your performance starts to suffer.

Make your Stress Diary  and make regular entries in your Stress Diary, for example, every hour. (If you have any difficulty remembering to do this, set an alarm to remind you to make your next diary entry.) Also make an entry in your Stress Diary after each incident that is stressful enough for you to feel that it is significant.

Aim to keep the diary for several days or a week. Every time you make an entry, record the following information:

• The date and time of the entry.
• The most recent stressful event you have experienced since the last entry.
• How happy you feel now, using a subjective assessment on a scale of -10 (the most unhappy you have ever been) to +10 (the happiest you have been). As well as this, write down the mood you are feeling now.
• How effectively you are working now (this is a subjective assessment, on a scale of 0 to 10). A 0 here would show complete ineffectiveness, while a 10 would show the greatest effectiveness you have ever achieved.

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• The fundamental cause of the stress (being as honest and objective as possible).

You may also want to note:

• How stressed you feel now, again on a subjective scale of 0 to 10. As before, 0 here would be the most relaxed you have ever been, while 10 would show the greatest stress you have ever experienced.
• The symptom you felt (e.g. "butterflies in your stomach", anger, headache, raised pulse rate, sweaty palms, etc.).
• How well you handled the event: Did your reaction help solve the problem, or did it inflame it?

Analyzing the Diary

At the end of the period, analyze the diary in the following ways:

• First, look at the different stresses you experienced during the time you kept your diary. List the types of stress that you experienced by frequency, with the most frequent stresses at the top of the list.
  
  Next, prepare a second list with the most unpleasant stresses at the top of the list and the least unpleasant at the bottom.
  
  Looking at your lists of stresses, those at the top of each list are the most important ones to deal with.
  
  Working through these, look at your assessments of their underlying causes, and your appraisal of how well you handled the stressful event. Do these show you areas where you handled stress poorly, and could improve your stress management skills? If so, list these.
• Next, look through your diary at the situations that cause you stress. List these.
• Finally, look at how you felt when you were under stress. Look at how it affected your happiness and your effectiveness, understand how you behaved, and think about how you felt.

Having analyzed your diary, you should fully understand what the most important and frequent sources of stress are in your life. You should also know the sort of situations that cause you stress so that you can prepare for them and manage them well.

As well as this, you should now understand how you react to stress, and the symptoms that you show when you are stressed. When you experience these symptoms in the future, this should be a trigger for you to use appropriate stress management techniques.

Taking Action

There's no point knowing these things unless you take action on them. Make a plan for dealing with the most important sources of stress that you identify, and put the first actions in this plan onto your To Do List or Action Program. And where you find that you need to improve your stress management skills, make sure these are on the plan too.

Also, don't feel that you're being self-indulgent by working on this plan as part of your job: If you're happier, your team will be happier, people will be more motivated, and everyone will be more effective and more productive.

Summary

Stress Diaries help you to get a good understanding of the routine, short-term stresses that you experience in your life. They help you to identify the most important, and most frequent, stresses that you experience, so that you can concentrate your efforts on these. They also help you to identify areas where you need to improve your stress management skills, and help you to understand the levels of stress at which you are happiest, and most effective.

To keep a stress diary, make a regular diary entry with the headings above - it's often best if you do this every hour. Also make entries after stressful events.

Analyze the diary to identify the most frequent and most serious stresses that you experience. Use it also to identify areas where you can improve your management of stress.