Control Stress Today - Managing Stress

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Forget car accidents and plane crashes, stress kills thousands more
people each and every year and the figures are not falling. People
need to work harder and longer each day just to make ends meet, but at
what expense? We are forced to work, without working we can not afford
to live in relative comfort. The cost of wanting to better our
lifestyle can have a large price tag, our health. The expression
"working themselves into an early grave" was probably written with
stress in mind.
Stress causes anxiety which in turn prevents us from functioning at
one hundred percent of our ability. You may actually feel as though
you are working harder and harder, and doing more and more work. In
actuality you have probably got the same amount of workload as you had
prior to suffering from stress. You are not getting more work and the
tasks are not getting harder, your body is talking to you, it's saying
"relax". If you don't relax you can not continue for long before
something gives, you could be headed for a mental breakdown.
Managing stress will only work if you acknowledge the fact that you
are suffering from it. Many people think that they can deal with their
problems later, this is almost laughable, it can't wait until later. I
am not talking about people who feel a little under pressure to
perform a certain task well. I am talking about people who feel like
the problems of the world are resting on their shoulders, and it's not
just the people who have management positions either. Anyone who works
in an office is part of a team; the team is only as good as each
person. If one person starts to cause stress between their colleagues,
it won't be long before a stressful situation arises.