Mind Tools emphasizes the importance of helping people tap into their full potential. It aims to increase mind power and improve all aspects of people’s professional and personal lives. The web page is a free skills training site with learning and training resources to help you develop and better …show more content…
There is a detailed stress management category, completely dedicated to enlightening the reader on what stress is, reactions to stress such as Fight-or-Flight and General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS), signs and consequences of stress, and subsequently how to properly approach and manage it. The stress category comes complete with to-do lists, principles to follow, time stress management skills, prioritization tools, physical relaxation tips, coping skills, and many other illustrations and techniques such as the use of imagery in mental stress management, harnessing the power of positive thing, and the ABC technique for overcoming pessimistic thinking in stressful …show more content…
It highlights approachable and hands-on strategies for readers who seek to change or manage a behavior and develop a skill. For example, when using the Mind Tools Management Toolkit, you can choose any category topic such as Time management, navigate the list to a sub-category such as Overcoming Procrastination, and be presented with vital information on the topic, that can actually be practiced in your daily lifestyle routines.
In any of the categories, Mind Tools makes the effort to provide its reader with more: questionnaires, notes, journal articles, expert interviews and videos like the Stop procrastinating video with James Manktelow and Amy Carlson , self-tests and stress scales such as The Holmes and Rahe Stress Scale that calculate, score and interpret the causes and levels of your problem (be it stress management, time management, strategy or leadership), as well as stress diaries to help identify causes of stress, as shown