Triggering the core P’s is the second step of the Stress & the YES process.  The purpose is to bring heightened awareness of them in the moment.

Masterful teachers teach for the Smile, not the skill. 

Good teachers fill us up with enormously useful knowledge and skills.  Great teachers use skills to get access to the stress that makes us to grow. 

Growth is the development of a greater ability to focus and utilize more energy – to channel more energy – to cause more energy to flow. 

When you utilize the energy of stress for growth, you in turn develop the ability to handle higher and higher levels of stress.

When you’re being chased by a lion, you get an adrenaline rush.  We don’t call this "stress" because the adrenaline gets resolved.  It gets used up.  You don’t continue to carry it with you.

But when you have a big presentation to give, now that’s stress.  But it’s still adrenaline.

So what is stress?