Handling Stress: Is Stress Your Friend, or Enemy?

Whether it's in your personal life, professional career, or involves some leadership position, you either hold, or seek, it's important to realize, stress will always exist. The Nobel Prize winner, Dr. Hans Selye, broke stress into 2 categories: 1) Harmful stress; and 2) Eustress, or useful stress.

Unfortunately, most of us, experience stress, but few take advantage of the experience. One's options are to either let it defeat you, and emit fears, uneasiness, etc, or to learn and become better, and developing the ability to, not only experience stresses, but become better because of them!

When we let stress become harmful, some of the side effects include:

1) Almost - debilitating fears
2) Losing control
3) Losing one's focus
4) Stop considering alternatives
5) Become nearly paralyzed, by the emotions.

However, when one learns to transform his stresses, from harmful, to eustress, he becomes stronger and more capable. Some of the advantages include:

1) Eliminating wasting time, by thinking on your feet
2) Learning, gaining experience, and getting better, after every experience
3) More focused judgement and acumen
4) Open - minded, alternatives/ options based
5) Far less wasted time!

It's up to you - Will your stress be harmful, or transformed to eustress? Become a better person, and potentiate your possibilities, to excel, by proceeding with a consistent, can - do, positive attitude!