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How To Perform Your Way Through Stressful Times
Consider what truly stresses you when you work.
It’s often not the work itself but what the work means that adds stress.
It’s the doubts about the future, the fear of failure and remembering past failures that create anxiety, worries and stress.
It’s these thoughts that pressure us to try to succeed; to work hard and study hard.
Yet, when those thoughts become too dark, pessimistic or negative to deal with we often choose to run away instead.
We run to our comfort zones; We run to the TV, the video games, the books, the alcohol or even the drugs if the pressure becomes too high to bear.
And, to be honest, most people that work despite of that pressure still feel it.
The only differences are that these people have a reason to work that trumps their negative feelings and have better ways of dealing with these pressures when they come up.
For example, take a parent who is raising three children on their own.
Their bills come in and they realize their one job isn’t cutting it. They need to get a second job.
This parent, now working two jobs, still finds the time to take their kids to baseball practice, dance class and piano lessons for…
