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Seven Tips to Process Your Stress Faster by Carl Stab of Digtofly.com.

And I'm Justin Mollock, your personal narrator, and we're going to get right to it as we optimize your life.

Seven tips to process your stress faster by Carl Stabe of dig to fly.com

Last week I had a day that was going along smoothly until my boss asked me to have the report I was

currently working on done by the end of the day. My stress level shot up and I began to work like a wild turkey,

no rhythm or reason to my actions. The funny thing was that I was probably going to finish

before the end of the day anyway. Earlier that morning I predicted that I'd be done around 3 p.m.

The extra stress only freaked me out and didn't help me work any faster. I finished the report at 3.30,

and I attribute the extra half hour to me getting all worked up and having to calm myself down.

That's what spurred on the idea for this post. I wanted to share both the mistakes and the

positive aspects of how I processed my stress. I lost half an hour and I don't

want the same to happen to you. If you lose a half hour every day because of stress, that adds up to

91.25 hours every year. That's over two weeks of work that could have been more productive

if you could have released your stress faster.

I'm not even factoring in the toll that is taken on the mind and body or the level of

happiness that is probably decreased because of your worry. It's up to you to notice the stress

and work with its effects. You can do this by applying a few tips from this article.

Number one, become a watcher of your reactions. When my boss told me that the report was due by the end of the day, my heartbeat picked up,

and a rush of thoughts bombarded me. My first instinct was to go to the bathroom and calm down.

My thoughts were rebelling. Who was he to tell me when to get my work done? Duh, my boss. Maybe I can't get it done. I need more time.

After I calmed down, I came out of the bathroom and I knew that I needed a plan. Number two, plan out what needs to get done.

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