Your impossible boss will never get any better than he is now. Your family-related problems are standard issues incorporated into your life. Your personal problems just will not go away if you worry about them. But you can take charge of stress, which by the way is often a result of your poor coping mechanism. [...]

Every situation is not stressful in its own right. It is the way we perceive each situation and the way we judge it according to our current condition and past experiences that make it a cause of worry and stress. In other words, it is our own interpretation to the presented situation that decides if [...]

While some form of stress are beneficial for anyone to function more effectively and efficiently, the majority of stress poses harm if not brought down to manageable levels. Job related stress is especially so since this brings down productivity and in some cases, results in job burnout aside from other ill effects on your health. [...]

The focal point of stress management is to prevent it from affecting you. There are a million things everyday that could put you under relative levels of stress. You also could have various degrees of reaction responses to stress that can lead up to more severe cases of breaking down. It may seem a bit [...]

Competitiveness, the desire to excel and the drive to achieve personal goals all contribute to today’s fast paced world. Nowhere in man’s history has it the parallel as today. The irony is that the desire for better performances creates anxiety that reduces achievement of desired goals. Complications are that performances are based on good health, [...]

The recent economic failures did not only lead to lower standards of living but also added more stress in the workplace. Workers have felt the added pressure of being more competitive to counter the possibility of getting laid off. On top of this, the troubled economy makes workers feel more fearful, more anxious and more [...]

It is not a question of what you are dealing with, is it your co-workers? Your problematic relationships? Personal issues?; but the question of how you deal with them. You cannot control the uncontrollable and the sooner you accept this truth, the sooner you will live the utopian-style stress-free life.
So how do you [...]

Stress is good but only to a certain point. Once you reach your threshold, you need to either eliminate the cause of stress or limit the extent by which it affects you. Prepared below are five reasons that would help convince you to take charge of your stressors, now.
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The most common source of stress is the workplace where various types of people with dissimilar attitudes and personalities, and with contradicting interests who are trying to exist together harmoniously and are constantly failing to achieve this. These natural conflicts lead to stress and other types of negative emotions that impede you from working at [...]

We have all heard about the usual lament that stress makes people overweight. This is another of those supposed coping mechanism that people under stress adopt. It is only partly true. In reality, when people are stressed out, the body releases cortisol. Cortisol is a hormone in the body that is often triggered by stress. [...]