Anxiety At Work? Reduce Stress, Uncertainty & Boost Mental Health
Executive coaches and New York Times bestselling authors of "All In" and "The Carrot Principle,” Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton offer insights and advice to reduce anxiety at work and in your personal life. If you have ever dreaded Sunday night, got a pit in your stomach on the way to work, or had your heartbeat speed up at the sound of your boss’s voice, then you may have had anxiety at work. In this practical podcast, some of the world’s leading authorities on mental health explore the causes of workplace stress and anxiety and the practices that have be proven to reduce tension and cultivate calm.
Anxiety At Work? Reduce Stress, Uncertainty & Boost Mental Health
What is the Power of Small Acts of Kindness?
🔍 Discover the transformative power of one small act of kindness and its ripple effect on mental health and leadership!
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Key Takeaways📍
- 🌊 Ripple Effect of Kindness: One small act of kindness impacts not just the recipient but also those who witness it.
- 💖 Good for Mental Health: Kindness benefits your mental health and creates a positive environment around you.
- 🧮 Math is Wrong: In relationships, a negative action followed by another negative action doesn’t create a positive outcome.
- 🌐 Circles of Inclusion: Creating circles of inclusion can help support those suffering from mental health issues, fostering confidence and support.
Our guest is Curtis Bennett, the Executive Director of One Kind Act of the Day. Curtis is renowned for his kindness and leadership. With a distinguished career in tech and non-profit sectors, Curtis has consistently spread goodness and created positive ripple effects wherever he goes. His work with Mentors International and his dedication to helping others make him a true leader in kindness.
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What is the power of one small act of kindness? Hello, I'm Chester Elton and this is my co-author and dear friend, Adrian Gostick. Well, thanks Ches. Yeah, it doesn't take much to be kind, but it does take a commitment. And there's a big benefit to our mental health. As always, we hope the time you spend with us will help reduce the stigma of anxiety at work and in your personal life. And, you know, talking about reducing stress, I think it's time we took our magic mind, Adrian. I love magic mind, I take it every day. These little shots that make me, just they calm me down. I love the little bottle, it's a green little bottle, and it says, MagicMind Mental Performance Elixir. Sharper mind, lower stress, better energy and reclaim your brain. You know, it's a little bottle like a 5-Hour Energy, except it's an easy up and an easy down. Well, they also have a subscription option for you to get your MagicMind. 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I would have forgotten that I know I took my magic mind this morning Oh. the the the the you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you So, Adrian, I mean, we've known Curtis Bennett for a long time. And time with Curtis is always, you always feel uplifted, you always feel like you can be a better person. But I'm curious what were your key takeaways from the conversation? Well, you know, as I mentioned earlier, when we heard that Curtis was now the Executive Director of One Kind Act of the Day, we went, well, duh. Yeah, who else would you pick, right? Exactly, because we knew Curtis. And one of the problems with Curtis, he was just too nice in every organization he was with. People would walk through fire for him because he was just, and he was the CEO of tech companies and different, people may not realize this guy has a pretty distinguished career. And he's also just the nicest human being you'll ever meet. So he does create this ripple effect around him. So I just thought that was the first part, is this idea of the ripple effect. But he says, look, kindness doesn't just affect ourselves, it affects the people that we are kind to. But more importantly, those around us who see that, that we ripple that out. Yeah, it's good for you. It's good for them. It's good for the people that see it. Yeah. You know, it's interesting. You and I worked with Curtis for years, and then he went on to do Mentors International, where they went to impoverished countries and help people with microloans. He's done a remarkable work in his church and so on. He really does spread goodness every way it goes. But I'll tell you one of my big takeaways with math is wrong. I love that, math is wrong. A negative times a negative is not a positive when it comes to, if you're mean and then somebody's mean back to you, it doesn't make you both kind. That is my big takeaway because I'm not good at math and I'm delighted to know that math can be rough. You know, as you always say, yeah, you were part of the math class that made the upper half possible. So that's always nice of you. But we see this so often, and I love this analogy, I won't forget it, in politics, because I caught myself the other day in this stressful time, and somebody started kind of yelling and getting angry, and I was, said, look, I'm not going to take this anymore. So off I went, and then finally after about a minute, I said, okay, whoa, whoa, let's take this down. Let's calm down. You know, we do a lot of mentor work with younger people, people in their 20s that are, we're trying to launch their careers. I had a young person come to me recently, she said, she says, I was with my therapist, she says, I'm so nervous about the election coming up. And my therapist said, yeah, me too. Not exactly helpful here, but everybody's nervous about it, right? And that creates angst and we start getting angry. And again, a negative and a positive still creates a negative. A negative and a negative still creates a negative. I love that. I loved the Dignity Index. And we didn't have a lot of time to drill down on that, but I encourage our listeners to just Google the Dignity Index, Tim Shriver, you know, words of dignity and then the opposite of dignity is contempt and words of contempt. And it just doesn't give you the index, it gives you what do you do, you know, listen more, ask questions, give people credit. The default is be kind, you know, be kind. One of the other things I love that he said was circles of inclusion. Yeah. He had a great question about what do you do when you see people suffering from mental health? They're anxious, they're depressed. He says it creates circles of inclusion. It opens the door for confidence and support. I love that concept of circles of inclusion. I do too. Because it might be yourself too and you kind of go, look, I have anxiety, I have depression. If I start being nice to somebody and they pull the rug out from under me, they don't accept it. Because I've had that where somebody will go up and say, hey, can I help you carry your groceries? They go, yeah, you can mind your own business, you know, and it crushes them. Yeah, no kidding. So they try, we've all had that, where you try to do something nice and it gets crushed. And I think what he just said then is like it takes courage to be kind. And you're just looking to expand your circle a little bit. Sometimes it may not, but it's on them if they reject the kindness. It's still in your heart. It's still good You're still building from it and just think about expanding your circle just a little bit if this is hard for you All right. My last takeaway is that his final statement is that kindness doesn't take a committee You don't have to ask for permission. You don't to fill out any forms. You don't go through any red tape Just be kind you can do it on your own You can do it any time and it just makes a better day for you and everybody around so I love that Kindness does not take a committee well great Sessions today. What a great reminder You know as Curtis was talking about his kindness summit. I remember our first Recognition gratitude summit years ago, maybe 15 years ago chest in New York And we were wondering the same thing. Would anybody come? And then I remember at the end, we were setting more chairs up and we packed the room. And people wanted to hear about gratitude. They want to hear about kindness. They want to hear about positive things. So, you know, one of the most positive things in our life is our producer, Brent Klein. Such a great guy. We want to thank him, Christy Lawrence, another positive influence in our lives who helps us find amazing guests. And to all of you who listened in, if you liked the podcast, please share it. We'd also love you to visit thecultureworks.com for free resources, including more information on our bestselling book, Anxiety at Work. Yeah, we love to speak to audiences all around the world, whether it's virtual or it's in person, on resilience, teamwork, culture, gratitude, kindness. Give us a call, we'd love to speak at your event. And if you're a little anxious about it, take a little dose of Magic Mind. I think it'll really calm you down. It'll bring your brain back. Now, I almost always, well, I always give Adrian the last word, but this time I want the last word because today I got my kindness quote from onekindactoday.org, and it's this. "'Kindness is not a nice to have. "'It's a must have for ourselves and for others." By Cynthia Giovinata. And the kindness idea is, this is a political year, in all our communication and discourse, let's try to retain dignity and kindness, challenge ideas, don't attack people. And that's my final word for today. Thanks for tuning in everybody, share it with your friends, and we'll see you again next week. Cheers.