Mental

Stress Optimization

Create a “stress helps me” mindset

  • The belief that “stress helps me” is scientifically proven to help you improve your performance, resilience, and well-being. Use this worksheet to help you remember past stressful experiences—and how stress helped you perform. 

Worldview Self-Reflection Workbook

  • Use this workbook to reflect and become more aware about your mindsets, core beliefs, values, and goals—about the world, who you are, and who others are. 

How to Develop a Productive Mindset: Mindset Portfolio

Mindset diet self-check

  •  A healthy mindset can lead to success, enhanced well-being, and meaningful action to improve your life and the lives of others. But when your “mindset diet” is left unchecked, it can lead to an inaccurate view of the world, or in the worst cases, extremism or mental health issues.

Goal-directed self-talk

  • Goal-directed self-talk can help you improve performance, stay focused, regulate emotions, and increase your confidence. Use this worksheet as a tool to harness your self-talk to enhance performance in stressful situations

Build your stress team

  • The worksheet below is designed to help you build a support system to manage your stress when you’re straying from your optimal zone of functioning. You’ll learn how to choose the members of your stress team, and share any “orange or red flags”—or triggers that make you feel overwhelmed or stressed. You also can offer ways for them to let you know when they notice orange- or red-flag behavior and which coping strategies might work best for you. 

Personal stress toolkit