Thanks to everyone who posted their photos and funny stories on the DishyMix Fan Club and on this blog in hopes of winning the free Executive Business Card Scanner from CardScan Valued at $259.99!

You contributed great ideas, poems and sob stories, but the best request included this ispiring tag line: “Technology + Humanity= World of Change!”

The winner is JamieLuv of San Francisco because she posted a story with a global perspective and the intention of doing great work in the world with her Executive CardScan. Read on.

(If you still want a CardScan business card scanner and didn’t win, you can use Promo Code SPECIAL at check out to get a free Dymo LetraTag Plus Label Maker with your order. Or you can use Promo Code FREE to get free shipping at CardScan.com They just launched their CardScan for Mac too!)

JamieLuv ToYou wrote at 12:02pm on December 16th, 2008

My pile of business cards may not be the largest, but it is certainly the most fabulous! I have cards from incredible people in 12 countries and 5 continents. My card collections consists of people who want to be part of the “Fun Network.” People who want to connect with other conscious individuals, to create a better world.

By having a card scanner, I could more efficiently connect the people, who are doing the most with the least, and creating abundance, possibility and positivity, more quickly. One little machine that saves time, energy and improves the accuracy of data entry, could help save the world!

Technology + Humanity= World of Change!

Turn your contacts into assets you can act on.

Some of my favorite runner up posts included:

Amy B Johnson (UAB) wrote
at 10:23am on November 20th, 2008

The pile of business cards on my husband’s desk is SO big that he’s actually had to move to a new desk with his computer to have room to move around. He has them sorted into piles for different purposes with notes written on and around them, and I keep BEGGING him to get one of these scanners because it MAKES ME CRAZY!!!

We have four small children, and I took them into his office on day, and compared the size of our 5 and 3 year old to the pile, and I’m pretty sure they could be totally covered in cards, no problem. Unbelievable. But if we had the scanner, what would we do with all the cards? The older children have suggested we could laminate them and make a doll house, so we’ll send you a pic of that if we get the scanner….

Photos from Sheryl Sever, DishyMix Fan

Paul Small wrote
at 10:34am on November 20th, 2008

What desk? My laptop is stationed on a house of cards, tech and IT companies as the legs, marketing and content companies as the drawers, and media sales reps as the flat, wide surface.

Rodney Rumford (Silicon Valley, CA) wrote
at 6:29pm on November 21st, 2008

i uploaded a picture of my stack of biz cards. do i win the scanner? I have more. but this is what is currently on my desk. sectioned out by categories…lol

Peter V.S. Bond (Campbell Soup) wrote
at 11:09am

I want the cardscan reader. Do me right Glamazon!!!

Alison Mary Madden wrote
at 3:48pm on December 16th, 2008

OK, on the scanner thing

Title: very clever request

I will use it at burning man, really (do my best). As with all projects, it will morph but I used the wi fi this past year to file a request for my energy efficient washer rebate (yes they give you 90 days and the last day fell on a day I was at BM; true to my form (in recovery on this) I left it till the last day but had my laptop as I had driven straight from work. So I’ll do some kind of feed from the thought scanner. I’ll scan business card size cards filled out by BM participants. Not too much connection to the default world, but something showing the inherent power of real-time thought share that the internet/social/web 2.0 models are allowing. It’ll grow and focus and morph, but I like the initial idea. . .

Gerry Howatt (Burlington, VT) wrote
at 6:34am on December 17th, 2008

There once was a fine man from Vermont,
That cool new CardScan schwag was his wont,
to scan all the data
he thought it might matta,
Will it handle the hot chick’s funky font?

Steven Echtman wrote
at 7:31pm on December 29th, 2008

Is this where I request the CardScan? Consider it reserved ; )

Paul Delagrange (Washington, DC) wrote
at 6:38am yesterday

Woo hooo Forget what Steven Echtman said. Consider the Cardscan reader reserved for me……

And here are the comments listeners left on my blog, rather than in the Facebook Fan Club:

PodcastPickle said,

December 23, 2008 @ 1:07 pm · Edit

Pile? You ask how big is my pile of business cards? Lets change that to piles. On the sidebar of my desk are 9 piles of business cards, and each pile is about 6 inches tall.

I have had this desk since 1999, and that is when my piles started. They are not organized in any manor, but I do seem to be able to find what I need. It just takes a while.

I may have the most complete collection of podcasters business cards. I have all the original podcasters. The first generation.

The only problem that I would have with winning the scanner is that it would take forever to scan them all.

Well, my wife would love that though.

warrenss said,

December 25, 2008 @ 2:50 pm · Edit

I’m not that bad, but I must have at least a couple hundred. Please save me CardScan!

lauralevitan said,

December 25, 2008 @ 2:56 pm · Edit

I am proud to say that there is not one card on my desk. When I receive them, I immediately (or upon my return) create an Outlook contact….less stress!

morganb said,

December 30, 2008 @ 2:52 pm · Edit

I’ve got about 35 on my desk and a solid stack in my top drawer. My rolodex died and I could see going out and buying a bunch of those little rolodex cards to slide or staple these in. So I’m left with a stack. The card scanner would be sweet!

johnmunsell said,

December 30, 2008 @ 3:59 pm · Edit

I’ve got 26 on my desk and another 27 in a drawer. The sad part is that I’ve already got a CardScan sitting right next to my stack of cards! I love the darn thing, but the cards are the least of my worries. The bigger mess that needs my attention is the 23 inch high stack of paper, books, folders, receipts, etc. that I need to get through before I accidentally knock everything over! So much for the paperless society…

Hey, but I highly recommend the CardScan! Do they make one for the rest of the junk on my desk? Preferrably one that does filing, makes sales and pays bills.

loumongello said,

December 30, 2008 @ 4:05 pm · Edit

The towering (teetering at the point) pile of important business cards stands right next to the business card organizer book… which sits there… laughing at me… mocking the fact that I will likely never, ever find the time to type them all into my computer and THEN file them in the book. There MUST be an easier way…

technacea said,

December 30, 2008 @ 5:00 pm · Edit

Social Media Connect (or is that phrase already copyrighted?)

I have 137 cards business cards sitting on my desk – but for at least 16 of those cards, I am already connected to and conversing with their previous owners on Twitter, LinkedIn, Plaxo, and FriendFeed. What I really need is a CardScan that will give me the option of connecting with people based on the social media information they put on their cards…but I’d be happy with he regular version of course!

cherot said,

December 30, 2008 @ 10:15 pm · Edit

I have many boxes of cards. The photo shows those gathered in the past few years. Sometimes I type them into Outlook on the plane on the way home. If not, the little boxes eventually end up in bigger boxes.

The most important thing is to add a note about where you met the person. More than once I met someone years later and upon looking them up recalled that I’d shared a cab with them in Vegas or had sushi in Tokyo. This is especially useful know when you get a “friend” request on Facebook or Twitter and wonder if you ever met.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cherot/3152956450/

chris2x said,

December 31, 2008 @ 10:12 am · Edit

I only have 30 cards sitting on my desk but they have been sitting there for at least 6 months. Inside a drawer I have a box of hundreds of cards in no particular order.

weswyatt said,

December 31, 2008 @ 1:38 pm · Edit

I LOVE to meet new people, get their Business Card, write their B-Day on the back, and then send them a card – so I have A LOT! I have hundreds within an arms reach alone!

The CardScan is one of those things you always think to yourself that you SHOULD get – but don’t – so to win one would be INCREDIBLE!

Should you pick me – I’ll be a Card Scanning Work From Home Daddy!

Have a DYNAMITE day and best of luck to all the other people commenting!

——————–

Thank you to Newell Rubbermaid and Alyssa at CardScan for the DishyMix give away and this excellent offer for my listeners!

Imagine how organized you’d be if your address book was totally up to date. CardScan’s business card reader is the fastest, easiest way to accurately scan those stacks of business cards on your desk right into your address book. Even drag and drop email footer info on the fly. Cardscan’s software safely backs your data up online too.

Turn your contacts into assets you can act on.

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Bert Decker just released his annual Top 10 Best (and Worst) Communicators list.

If you ever need to speak in front of a group, you should study the videos of the communicators he presents on this list. You will see authenticity and bold-faced liars. You will see miserable faces and great eye contact. There’s no better way to modify your own behavior than to model the best.

Bert Decker (Twitter) is on DishyMix this week. Let him change your life, as he’s so purposefully changed mine with his sage advice on how to be an influential speaker.

Bert Decker on The First Brain, Transforming Your Personal Impact and The Decker Grid

Bert is the author of You’ve Got to Be Believed to Be Heard, Updated Edition: The Complete Book of Speaking . . . in Business and in Life!

I have two copies to give to fans – just post your desire on the DishyMix Fan Club.

Related Links:

• Support DishyMix – Take My Listener Survey
• Decker Communications
• Bert Decker’s Blog
• Decker Communications

Getting your way. Do you know how to persuade, how to speak with influence, to get your way?

Leadership. Are you not only smart and strategic but also “be a leader?” Do you speak influentially to your team and your advisors and investors?

This episode of the DishyMix podcast with Bert Decker is dedicated to my mother, Lauren, who told me at age 35 that I needed to conquer my fear of public speaking to move forward in my career. I was terrified to stand up in front of people! That push led me to Decker Communications where I was “Deckerized” and now my phone rings with speak ops and I love to speak in public.

If public speaking isn’t one of the most energizing things you do, read on. Or if you are good, here’s a method to get even better…

Much to my excitement, I found the real Bert Decker on Twitter recently and invited him to come on DishyMix to change your life, as he’s so purposefully changed mine with his sage advice on how to be an influential speaker.

Bert is the author of You’ve Got to Be Believed to Be Heard, Updated Edition: The Complete Book of Speaking . . . in Business and in Life!

I have two copies to give to fans – just post your desire on the DishyMix Fan Club.

Listen to this episode to learn how to appeal to what Bert calls “the first brain,” which is our Limbic System – that part of our brain that is unconscious and emotional. We buy on emotion and justify with rationale. If you want people to “buy” you, you must appeal to them on an emotional level. Bert gives us the methods to connect with our audience.

Next you’ll learn Bert’s system. It’s called The Decker Grid. I have used this system to organize my thoughts for the last 10 years and it’s helped me create speeches, put together sales pitches, write blog posts, write stories and articles and prepare for my DishyMix interviews.

Here’s a photo of my modified grid for my interview with Bert: (yes, I DO eat my own dog food)

Listen now to change the way you are influencing everyone in your life. What a great way to start the New Year — with a new YOU!

Bert Decker on The First Brain, Transforming Your Personal Impact and The Decker Grid

Related Links:

• Support DishyMix – Take My Listener Survey
• Decker Communications
• Bert Decker’s Blog
• Decker Communications

This is an excerpt of my interview with Bob Schmetterer, former Chairman and CEO of EuroRSCG Worldwide. I interviewed him from his yacht in Key Largo. Bob had a profound impact on me the first time I saw him speak at an ad:tech in the late 90’s. He was riveting and I found someone I wanted to emulate. It’s a real honor for me to have Bob share with you his speaking success secrets. (Note: Bert Decker, of Decker Communications, one of my other idols, will be on DishyMix next week talking about being not just a great, but an influential speaker.)

Susan Bratton:   Tell us how you learned to be such an amazing speaker.  Good speakers are not born.  You did some work. What did you do, and what did you learn… Tell us the things we can do to be a speaker as good as Bob Schmetterer.

Bob Schmetterer:   I think…two things happened. I said early on in the show that I didn’t do so well in high school and my early years of education. Well there were two courses in my junior and senior years that changed my life in certain ways.  One was typing. (laughs) In learning how to type, and touch type helped me quickly grasp computer technology, and even today, I think you and I reconnected on…

Susan Bratton:   Facebook. I found you on Facebook.  Bob Schmetterer is on Facebook!  And he’s doing it from his yacht.

Bob Schmetterer:   How many retired ad guys that you know that are on Facebook, on their yacht?

Susan Bratton:   I love it.

Bob Schmetterer:  I took a class called Speech & Drama, and really loved it, and loved doing some acting.  I’ve often worked with people, and been asked to work with people, on how to become a better public speaker, and I’ve often said here’s an acting class that you need to take.  A part of it, that you learn in an acting class, is how to communicate to an audience.  So, you know, when I speak…people ask me quite a lot, and they’re often very complimentary as you’ve been about my speaking skills.  There are about 4 or 5 things that, to me, are always needful of being done.

The first is really…is the material, is feeling a huge obligation to your audience, to tell them something interesting, and to tell them something they’re going to want to know about and learn about. I think it’s crucial, it’s just that without that material, you’re not going to have that level of confidence, and working on that material and getting it right, you’re not going to have the confidence to do do the communications thing.

The second thing that, to me, came over time, was not listening to what I was saying, because I had that down… I knew what I was saying, and what I was going to be saying…but looking at the audience and listening to what they were hearing. And often you could look into an audience and just by their…you know, you could look around and you could tell, by who was nodding their head, who was nodding off, or who’s focused and who’s not, and what are they hearing? Are they hearing what I’m saying? And if they’re not, which is often the case, because it’s not easy to listen to other people talking, even if it is interesting. The two techniques that you mentioned… one of, that I found very important, is first, the art of repetition.

Susan Bratton:   Right. You do that a lot with your hands. You’ll say, “One, two, three,” and you’ll hold your hands up, and then you’ll repeat a theme through your presentation.

Bob Schmetterer:   Exactly. And then come back to it again because in the end of it, you’ll probably only wanting to communicate three things overall, and how you do that is part of how you present it. But if you hear that they’re not hearing it exactly, or not fully understanding it, stop and just say it again. It’s amazing how heads will perk up at that time, and it also adds something to the quality of how you’re speaking.

The most powerful thing you’ve mentioned a couple times, and that is the pause. That is something that you study and learn and being not afraid of silence.  (pause) …like just now. And realizing that if you stop and don’t say anything, it’s often more powerful than if you just keep talking. And the thing is to not overuse it. But when you do pause, and let some silence come in, people kind of re-calibrate, they have their internal reset button go.  And they realize that either you’ve just said something important, that you should be thinking about, or you’re just about to.

So I think that’s part of it, and I think overall, it’s a little like you producing a show. I think that when you produce a talk, if you’re doing it just yourself, or you’re doing it with other people, you spend the same amount of time on the details.

Sound is very important.  The sound quality, the kind of microphone, is very important. The notion of modulating.  I used to put notes in my speeches for when I was going to raise my voice or when I was going to lower it way, way, down, and be almost a whisper like.  Because it’s an orchestration, you know. If you were listening to a piece of music and it was always at the same volume and basically playing the same note over again you’d get bored very quickly.

Susan Bratton:   Yeah.  I do that with this show. I modulate my voice in various ways.  Well those are really great tips.  Actually…have you ever heard of Bert Decker?

Bob Schmetterer:   Yes

Susan Bratton:   He runs Decker Communications out here in San Francisco.  He’s written what I consider to be the definitive book on public speaking. He talks about tapping into your limbic system, your emotional core of your audience. And he also believes that you impart three topics, and he has this thing he calls…I call it, everybody calls it, the “Decker Grid.” Out of this world helpful.  And getting speaker training from him is so amazing.  And he’s coming on DishyMix. I found him, believe it or not, on Twitter. I saw Bert Decker on Twitter, and I thought, is it the Bert Decker? I’ve always been a tremendous fan of his work. I think he’s the definitive speaking teacher.

Bob Schmetterer:   There is no more powerful tool, as you know, if you have ideas to communicate.

Susan Bratton:   That’s right.  And to be a leader. You have to be a good speaker to win in this world now.

Bob Schmetterer on Becoming a Powerful Speaker, Advertising by the Decades and Yachting in Key Largo

Here is an excerpt from my podcast interview with Bob Schmetterer, former Chairman and CEO of EuroRSCG Worldwide.

Susan Bratton:   In the 70’s, big companies were coming to Madison Avenue and saying, “Do my campaigns for me,” for the first time. The media budget became a line item.  You talk about Frank Perdue and Volvo being two big corporations that you completely branded.

Bob Schmetterer:   Well, those are the two that changed my life.  I had actually worked for Volvo as their marketing research director when I was in my early twenties.  And that’s where…Marvin met me there because Scali became the Volvo agency in the late sixties, and that’s how we got to know each other, and that’s where that transition happened.  But when I went to work at Scali, aside from the opportunity to eventually “fart through velvet“… I said, “I’ve done work with cars, I’d really like to do something else.”  And, you know, Marvin said, “Well yeah, the first new client comes in, you’ll have a chance to work with, whoever that is.”  This guy came in from Salisbury, Maryland with this idea that chicken,  which is a commodity, and didn’t exist as any brand, could in fact be a branded commodity, a branded product, a branded idea.  His name is Frank Purdue.  And that opportunity to work with Frank himself, to work with Ed McCabe, to work with Sam Scali, was the beginning of my belief that advertising was something that genuinely could be worthwhile.

Childhood to sixties, growing up, the last thing that you could think about was advertising, you know, telling people to do something they didn’t want to do. But the idea of telling people, who wouldn’t otherwise know, that there is a real difference in the quality of a product and to demonstrate that with a lot of fun and a lot of humor…a very exciting time for me.  And that continued with Volvo when I finally did go back and work with Volvo because Volvo is another example…very tiny company by automobile standards, in terms of number of cars they make and sell, and by any right, shouldn’t even exist as a car company.  And yet, this very special car company, who believed in safety, above all else, with the right branding, with the right people, really created a phenomenon and stood out in the world.  So those two kind of set for me why I had found the right business to be in.

Susan Bratton:   And so that was the seventies.  So tell me the difference between how advertising changed between the seventies to the eighties, and the eighties to the nineties.

Bob Schmetterer:   I think the big changes, frankly, were from then on, sort of structural.  One of the things that I like to think about when I think about the seventies, and certainly was true in the late sixties, with Bernbach, and some of the other really great agencies, Mary Wells, is that there was a courageousness of being able to go to new ways of communicating and to selling.  And I’ve always felt, you know, creative thinking and creative business, needs a courageous time, for people who are not fearful, to be able to flourish.  What happened in the eighties was the beginning of…no one really saw it right away, but of a massive change in the structure of the business.  And by that I mean you suddenly, and in many ways it was really started by Saatchi  in London, who took their company public.  There had been a public agency before, but the idea of taking what was a hot startup agency, growing it into a big company in London, then going on the stock market with it… Raising money, and then going out and acquiring really an enormous number of other agencies.  People forget, but the little chief financial officer of Saatchi at the time was Martin Sorrell. And so, in a way, it was the beginning of this era of advertising becoming a big business as well as an exciting business of great creative thinking. The consolidation, the acquisitions of the…of the eighties, changed the business in a way.  And as it did that, and more companies were consolidated under these massive holding companies.  One of the things that happened, as it does with all acquisitions of public companies, people got fired, there was downsizing, all the things that inevitably happen in a consolidation.  The sense of courageous thinking became drained from the business.  And along with fearfulness, is hiding from being courageous with your ideas and courageous with how you approach a client.   I used to say to people all the time, the worst thing that could happen to you is you get fired.

Bob Schmetterer on Becoming a Powerful Speaker, Advertising by the Decades and Yachting in Key Largo

Bob Schmetterer ran all of EuroRSCG Worldwide for many, many years. He’s now retired and I interviewed him on his yacht in Key Largo.

If you want to hear about the go-go days of the ad business (like a Mad Men episode) and how the business evolved from the 60’s through the 70’s to the 80’s then the 90’s and how Bob thinks the 21st century is impacting the advertising agency world, this is a show that is as interesting for those who lived it as those who missed it.

Bob is also one of the BEST speakers I’ve ever seen on stage. He’s riveting and a true crowd pleaser. I get him to share his secrets for being a truely influential speaker and he tells all for you.

Bob Schmetterer on Becoming a Powerful Speaker, Advertising by the Decades and Yachting in Key Largo

Lee Odden of Top Rank Blog has assembled a collection of podcasts that cover social media. Will you take one minute and cast your vote for DishyMix please?

 http://www.toprankblog.com/2008/12/best-social-media-podcasts/

These things end up being more about how big your online reach is to your friends to ask them for help than it is about how well-produced and valuable a particular show is…This is a popularity contest not a review of the best shows. So I need to rely on you, dear DishyMix listener, to let the world know that my hours of effort every week to deliver you an interesting, educational and entertaining show are valuable in this universe of everyone-generated-media.

Have a great holiday and thank you for the gift of your vote.

Would you vote for my DishyMix podcast on this blog? http://tinyurl.com/8fttrk

It’s a simple click, no registration required.

Lee Odden of Online Marketing Blog has a list of Best Podcasts on Social Media. DishyMix has been nominated. I’d love to place highly and your vote of support would be very, very appreciated.

Thank you so much if you have a chance to support me.
http://www.toprankblog.com/2008/12/best-social-media-podcasts/

Holiday Cheer!
Warmly,
Susan Bratton
http://twitter.com/SusanBratton

Meet Jeff Lehman, Internet old timer, author, entrepreneur and sailor. Jeff was in ad sales in the early days of online advertising and has segued his success into a profitable consulting career. He’s recently launched is second book, The Frugal Millionaires: 70 millionaires anonymously share their ideas about money to help each other and you.” He tells us about “the model millionaire” and why the favorite part of his book is the marriage advice.

Jeff Lehman at a Book Signing for Frugal Millionaires

Relationship advice is a big part of this show as Suz and Jeff discuss his favorite all time book, His Needs, Her Needs about how women want affection, conversation, honesty and financial support and men need sexual fulfillment, companionship, an attractive spouse, peace and quiet and admiration. Very insightful!

Jeff also wrote “The Sales Manager’s Mentor.” Find out why there are no keys to the executive washroom and the need for typecasting sales people. Then Suz and Jeff “dish” on their mutual acquaintances including George Garrick, Ann Burgraff, Clark Kokich and Scott Swanson – other famous industry executives. Go from Singapore to personal elegance to the Men’s Movement in one fell swoop.

Jeff shares his most sinful guilty pleasure and the one thing that pushed his edge the hardest in his life. They have to do with adrenaline rushes of yacht racing and motorcycle riding… So hop on and hang on for a fun and insightful interview with the very successful “mentor man.”

Jeff Lehman on The Frugal Millionaires, The Sales Managers’ Mentor and Being a Chief Pre-Revenue Officer

Financial meltdowns pale in comparison to the holiday madness. Add in fears of lay offs and hard times ahead and this is a very scary time for many of us.

In the “Managing Through Change: Personal and Professional Workshop I led this week at iMedia, I talked about a new vein of neuroscience/psychology called MBSR. This practice can really help you feel better by lowering your stress levels. Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction combines attention to your physical body and your mental state – mind/body work. Often MBSR is a combination of meditation and yoga, but it can take many forms.

(If you are suffering from nagging fears and anxiety, you might also want to explore CBT, below)

In this workshop, I taught a meditation to 100 ad agency executives in the hopes that they would utlize this amazing tool as well as make it okay for employees to meditate in the workplace. As Meng, the Jolly Good Fellow and director of the Personal Growth University at Google noted, businesses as recently 1925 didn’t believe exercise was good for employees. Now we have fitness centers inside our corporations.

Some companies have meditation rooms already, like SoundsTrue in Boulder. This is a trend, I tell you.

This particular meditation I taught everyone is one you can do right at your desk and no one would even notice you doing it.

It’s called Calm-Abiding Meditation or Samatha and it’s Tibetan Tantric Buddhism.

You can do this for just a minute or two and derive amazing benefits – all 100 of us did it together in a conference room in Palm Springs and it was a calming and really good shared experience.

So here’s what you do. Calm-Abiding Meditation:

• Sit on the floor on a cushion with your legs crossed and your buns raised above your legs. (or sit in your office chair)
• Stack your spine for good posture, but be comfortable.
• Open your arms and put your hands on your knees. (or just rest your hands in your lap)
• Keep your eyes open and softly focus them about a foot in front of you with your head tilted slightly down. (if you are in your chair, it will look like you are thinking deep and great thoughts)
• Breathe deeply in and out.
• Clear your mind (the tricky part) and every time a thought enters your mind, say “let go” to yourself and bring yourself back to your breathing and to not thinking.
• Do this for 3 minutes, or even a minute every time you are stressed and it will calm you.

I liken this to rebooting a computer. Know how slow your computer is when you’ve used a bunch of apps and left it on for too long? It’s faster when you shut it down and reboot, right? That’s what this meditation will do for you.

Try it. Try it with your team. Make space in your group for anyone to do this anytime. It’s one more way you can be a great leader to yourself and your employees.

Coming up soon on DishyMix is an interview with Kelley Rainwater and Ben Thompson, experts in emotional leadership and self-care in the corporate world. We’ll teach you some great things you can do to help your employees get through this down market with less anxiety.

Note: MBSR is also often aligned with CBT, which is Cognitive Behavior Therapy. The fundamental strategy of CBT is that you change your thoughts to change your behavior to change your state – you learn to reframe your thinking at a very rational level – it’s not “positive thinking” or affirmations which are more like “wishful thinking.” If you want to overcome anxiety, stress or depression, CBT is an excellent tool. The best book on this is by Sarah Edelman, PhD. called “Change Your Thinking.”

Buy this book if you are stressed or if little things set you off.