Work without Stress: Building a Resilient Mindset for Lasting Success

3. Compare the current situation to your life experiences.

Being bored with something is in part a decision you’ve made about it, although how quickly you become bored is in part hardwired, depending on where you are on the continuum from extravert to introvert.

Acknowledge that you can do anything in a mechanical, automated way, or you can be awake and aware of what you’re doing. This brings you out of waking sleep, and it is also what will bring you out of stress.

The problem for perfectionists is that they just can’t see the threshold of added value,

2. Talk more about what is not changing.

one of the criteria for being a leader instead of a manager is to assume that everyone wants to do the best they can.

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

some of our best ideas come during waking sleep, but a closer examination will show that in fact, most creativity is 90 percent perspiration and 10 percent inspiration. Sweating it out happens in reflection, not waking sleep.

5. Clarify who actually owns the problem.