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Stress: It’s All How You Look at Things

By Mental Toughness Trainer, 10/03/18, 12:00PM PDT

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Stress is a state created by these chemicals as a mechanism to be more focused and boost energy for temporary and short periods of time to get more done when overwhelmed.

Years ago, when I was in the corporate world, managing 50 employees, I thought I had it rough. At the time, I felt like my entire world could crumble any day starting with losing my job and I put myself under that stress seven days a week.

When I decided to go home at night from work was entirely arbitrary as I couldn’t actually ever get to a point in that job where I thought my job was completed. No, there was always something that wasn’t getting done or done right that needed my attention.  

Why did I think this? Because my boss, who was just passing the buck down, was constantly telling me this.   In addition, I witnessed a colleague manager get “pushed out” before he could get fired just a few months after I started the same job myself.