070: Dr. Sharon Melnick – Success Under Stress: Breathing Exercises & Other Tips To Improve Your 50%

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🗓️ 9 November 2015

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Episode 070: Dr. Sharon Melnick – Success Under Stress: Breathing Exercises & Other Tips To Improve Your 50%

Sharon Melnick is an incredibly interesting person. She truly understands the importance of physiology, psychology, and your response. We are extremely fortunate to have Sharon share her knowledge with us, the loyal listeners of The Learning Leader Show.

Sharon Melnick, PhD is a leading authority on business psychology, stress resilience, and women’s leadership. Her methods are informed by 10 years of research at Harvard Medical School and field tested by over 15,000 clients and training participants.

As CEO of her firm Horizon Point Inc, Sharon Melnick, PhD is an internationally renowned speaker and sought after trainer. Her presentations on Resilience during Change and Success under Stress receive highest ratings and multiple repeat invites from organizations such as Procter and Gamble, MeLife, Novartis, NYLife, GE, Sodexo, Merck, Moody’s, OmniCom, AIG, Morgan Stanley, and many others.

Episode 070: Dr. Sharon Melnick – Success Under Stress: Breathing Exercises & Other Techniques To Improve Your 50%

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“The average human being has 60,000 thoughts a day.”

Some Questions I Ask:

What are some common characteristics all high achievers share?
What is the confidence revolution?
What specific moments are most stressful in a person’s life?
How can we control our own psychology?
What can a regular person do in order to become a thought leader?
How can we deal with difficult colleagues? Tough people to work with… What are specific ways to handle these situations?
What does being a learning leader mean to you?

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

How to successfully control your 50%
A breathing exercise that you can implement immediately that will improve your well-being and state of mind
Cooling Breath
How studying at Harvard for 10 years helped accelerate learning
Analyzing thought processes… How to do it
Goal setting practices
Great books to read: “Essentialism.” “The Power of Full Engagement.”
How to create 50% cultures

“A Leader Creates The Weather On Their Team.”

Continue Learning:

Go To Sharon’s website: com
Read Sharon’s Book: Success Under Stress
Follow Sharon on Twitter: @DrSharonMelnick

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Episode edited by the great J Scott Donnell

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0:00.0	be impeccable for your 50%.
0:04.0	The impeccable for your 50%.
0:06.0	So no matter what the challenging situation,
0:08.0	focus on what it is that you can control
0:10.0	and learn to be really effective at that. I welcome you to throw situations
0:15.8	at me Ryan try to you know stump the professor here. Try to give me a
0:20.3	situation where a person is finding that it is stressful and they feel like
0:24.5	there's nothing that you can control because there's always, always. Three things that you can control.
0:31.2	You can control your own physiology, your own psychology, and your own problem solving
0:36.7	around your performance or your productivity.
0:39.7	Our leaders born or are they made.
0:42.1	Our host Ryan Hawk believes that leaders can be made through determined, focused work on learning the art and science behind the makeup of other successful leaders.
0:51.0	Now it's time to inhale knowledge and exhale success. You're
0:54.8	listening to the Learning Leader Show I am Ryan Hawk and I'm
1:15.2	absolutely thrilled with tonight's episode. It's with business psychologist
1:19.9	Dr. Sharon Melnick. She is a leading authority in helping business professionals move to the next level and have success under stress.
1:29.0	Her methods are informed by 10 years of research at Harvard Medical School.
1:34.0	Dr. Melnick is the author of the newly released book,
1:38.0	Success Under Stress, powerful tools for staying calm,
1:42.0	confident, and productive when the pressure's on.
1:45.0	A couple of topics we got into tonight.
1:48.0	The average human has 60,000 thoughts a day.
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