See Stress as a Good Thing

See Stress as a Good Thing

Stress is what you feel when facing a challenge in your goal-related efforts. - Alia Crum

This means you ONLY stress about things you care about. So stress is not bad. It's inevitable and you need it to push yourself to success. . Instead of avoiding stress, it's better if you leverage it to your advantage.

See it this way: if it wasn't for stress, you would've never accomplished the things you've done.

Action steps:

1. Accept your stress when it comes today. Do not try to suppress it. Say: "Oh I'm feeling a bit agitated"

2. Notice it's because you care. "this is probably because i want this project to work out"

3. Utilize the stress response as fuel. "This alertness is good for me, I will use to get more work done"

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This is from a profound episode about mindsets with Dr. Alia Crum.