Work without Stress: Building a Resilient Mindset for Lasting Success

4. Ask yourself, “What’s the opportunity in front of me right now?”

Resilience is the ability to negotiate the rapids of life without becoming stressed.

5. Acknowledge self-motivation: an antidote to micromanaging.

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

We call this sensitivity. We sometimes describe it as being able to know what was being talked about before you entered the room—that’s an exaggeration, but it does give you a sense of what’s involved.

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

2. Talk more about what is not changing.

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

Resilience isn’t a matter of being able to surface more quickly when you’re submerged by the flood of feeling that you have too much to do. Resilient people know there’s no flood to survive—just pressure that comes and goes.