3 Easy Steps to Low Stress Communication
Communication is a fundamental skill that affects every aspect of our lives. It can help us achieve success at work and in relationships. Communication is also often the hardest part of a relationship, especially when we are trying to communicate with someone who brings us high levels of stress. By following these three steps you will be able to communicate with low levels of stress.
Step 1: Allow yourself to be okay without communication. This is the most important step. If you allow yourself to be okay without communication, then communication will not cause as much anxiety. It is very important that you use this step correctly. If you allow yourself to be okay with no communication, but it is a situation that needs resolution, then your stress levels may increase even further. People often try to use this step incorrectly by trying to not want resolution when the truth is it would make them feel better if they did resolve the situation. So the first step is to allow yourself to be okay with not communicating. If you are in a situation where you are okay without communication, then it will be easier for you to take the next two steps.
Step 2: Communicate with low levels of stress. In order to communicate with low levels of stress, it is important that you establish clear boundaries for your communication. Let's say that someone does something that causes you stress and then they want to talk about what happened. You want to tell them about the problem but you also want them to feel okay about themselves and like they did not hurt your feelings in any way so sometimes when we start talking we try half-way share how we feel in a sort of indirect way. For example, if someone is upset and they tell you "I felt left out" or "I wanted to come with you," it sets up the idea that they are trying to get back in the relationship and is an indirect way of trying to get back into the relationship. So when we start talking we might say something like "you left me out, I wanted to come with you," or "you made me feel left out." These are both examples of indirect communication because it kind of tries to hide how you really feel.
Step 3: Remove all stress from communication. When you remove all stress from communication, it means that there will be no negative emotions and no need for resolution for either one or both of you. If you have been following these steps, then it should be okay for you to have a conversation and neither one of you needs to figure out what to do with the other person because you are both okay with the situation. In order to remove all stress from communication, it is important that neither one of you has any expectations about how this conversation will go. For example, if someone says "I want us to get back together" or "I want us to talk," then that is setting up an expectation that they need resolution because there has been some problem in the relationship and they are trying to fix it. The other person may feel obligated to respond to that statement. You might say something like, "I don't want us to get back together" or "I don't want to fix anything." Both of these statements are okay because they do not have any expectations like "we need to talk" or "you hurt my feelings." By communicating with low levels of stress, you can remove the stress from communication and both of you will be able to go about your lives without any worries about the other person.
The idea behind these three steps is not that we should avoid relationships. It's that if there is a stressful situation, we should be okay with having low-stress communication and focusing less on resolving the problem directly.
If the steps above sound like they might be useful to you, I have created a free guide that explains these steps in more detail.
Step 1: Offer your free ebook at http://www.howtogetridofstress.com/guide/
Step 2: Retarget with ads for your book with links to your book page or sales page
Step 3: When people click through from the ads, offer them an incentive to sign up for your email list. You can do this by offering a discount on your book, coupons or special reports about stress management or anything else along those lines. Then tell them that you are going to send them news about your book and offers for other stress relief products and services.
Step 4: Collect their contact information and send them emails about new books, reports and special offers related to stress management.
This takes care of all the marketing for the book.
Once you have built up your email list, it's time to start promoting your book again. You can do this by hosting a webinar or some other kind of online event related to stress management. You can use Skype or another video conferencing platform to do this event at a time that works for you and as long as it is convenient for your audience as well.
If you host webinars frequently on stress management, you will have a ready made audience whenever you publish something new.
Once you have put out something new, you also need to start promoting it. You can use Facebook ads, YouTube and other social media platforms like Twitter and Pinterest to promote your book as well.
Now to finish up this article I am going to go over a few ways that you can use your knowledge of stress management and business marketing to build a brand or business that is related to stress relief or health.
There are many different types of businesses that you can pursue in order to help people with stress relief, but I will go over exactly which type of company I think would work best for people who want to change their focus from fixing one person so they can get back together with them to helping them gain more control over their lives overall. The book that I wrote and promote is a guide to help people with stress relief, so what I am going to talk about below is how I used this guide to brand or build a business.
I started writing my free ebook because I wanted to solve one problem for one person. After writing the book, it became obvious that the problem was bigger than just one person and that there was an opportunity for someone to write a book about stress relief for other people and sell it.
In order for me to be able to take advantage of this opportunity, I knew that my focus needed to be on helping others not just fixing one person's problems. In order to help others, I had to figure out how to grow my email list.
In the past, I wrote a couple of articles about building an email list and growing an audience. You can take a look at those articles here if you like:
My number one suggestion for growing your email list is creating free content that is related to your business or book and giving it away for free. Giving away free content will entice people to give you their contact information in exchange for that content.
I took this advice from my article on building an audience and started writing blog posts that were related to stress management, but that were also very helpful in their own right.
Conclusion
In this article, I have given you a lot of different ideas about how to make money from your book. There are many different options available, but these are the ones that I think are most suitable for someone who wants to earn cash from their book. It is also important to note that these ideas do not work if you expect someone else to share your book with others or promote it themselves. There are other options available for promoting and marketing a book beyond the information that I provide in this article, but these two tactics should be enough for most people.