Tips for Beating Stress By Dianne Schilling Life is filled with pressures. Some are gentle nudges that throw us temporarily off balance, others feel like hard marble bookends, steely vises, or giant grinding compactors. Learning to manage stress can make a strong positive contribution to success and personal well-being. Stress isn't necessarily the enemy. Moderate amounts can enhance performance, producing exhilaration and a sense of well being, like the endorphin high experienced after aerobic exercise.
Good stress contributes to attaining goals and fulfilling commitments.
Continually placing mind and body under stress can eventually lead to lapses in judgment, reduced creativity, emotional burnout, and a host of degenerative diseases. When the amber lights start flashing, good personal management offers one of the quickest paths to stress reduction. Learn to say no. Keep a detailed calendar to remind you of even the smallest tasks. Find new and better ways to do routine tasks.