Work without Stress: Building a Resilient Mindset for Lasting Success

Detached coping is being able to keep perspective.

The real costs begin when negative emotion is added, transforming the daydream of waking sleep into the nightmare of rumination.

Defining stress as rumination can be difficult for people to accept, mainly because it removes the opportunity for blame.

detachment: being able to maintain perspective.

another principle of communicating more effectively is to make it as impersonal as possible.

1. Approach work with high intent, low attachment.

empowerment, which is an overused term. What it really means is realizing that you have this amazing power of attention.

7. Avoid giving team members things to ruminate about.

A phrase that is commonly used to mask blame is constructive criticism, but criticism is never constructive.

Churning over emotional upset serves no purpose at all, except to make you miserable and potentially to shorten your life.