Effective Habit of a Top Executive: Stress Less, Work Smart
Posted by Marg on December 20th, 2008
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Executives eat stress for breakfast, lunch, and dinner but they do not complain. To an executive, stress is as much a part of the job as the salary and the job description, and some even become “stress junkies.” They seemingly thrive on it… for a while.
Executives do whatever needs to get done without minding the clock or how worn out they have been feeling. After all, they spent years doing things better and faster than their peers so they could get ahead. Now that they are where they want to be (at the top or close to it), it’s the deadline and the output that matters more than anything else.
Or is it really?
To Chris Green, the answer is a resounding “NO!” The author of ‘Conquering Stress – How To Find Natural Anxiety, Depression and Stress Relief’ suffered chronic stress for years before he came to recognize the wear and tear that stress was putting his body. Eyebags and depression were the least of his worries. He was losing weight, was constantly unhappy, experienced headaches and back aches all the time, and always woke up tired.
There’s a real problem with feeling all of these every day. Instead of allowing you to function at the optimal levels expected of a hardworking executive, stress makes you work slower, lousier. You do see the irony in this, don’t you? You push yourself to do more only to end up achieving less - a lot, lot less.
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