Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

Fun question for you today, and it's not a trick question, although some people think this is a trick

question when I ask them, okay? It's really interesting, too, how men and women tend to answer this question

differently, but I'm going to pose it to you right now. What is your stress tolerance? Think about

it for a second. What is your ability to tolerate stress? Is it high? Do you have this high threshold for it?

Would you say it's medium? How would you describe it? What's your stress tolerance?

I want to tell you mine. It's zero.

Zero. Not because I'm fragile. The opposite. It's because I am intentional. And if something is

showing up in my life that feels constantly stressful, something's wrong. I need to fix something. I need to

throw some money at the problem. I need to assess my options and choices. I need to do

something differently. Somewhere along the way, we started confusing stress specifically with importance.

It gives us a spike, this big feeling of importance and we're stressed out. So much to do,

so many places to be.

Got to get it done. I'm so in demand. Look how special I am. The world can't operate without me.

So if you're stressed, you're doing something big, right?

Wrong. What if you're just doing something that's badly designed? What if you haven't even had a review

in the areas of your life that are very stressful to understand what else you could be doing instead?

You know, I asked this gentleman recently, I could tell you he was a bit of a high-powered fella

with how he spoke about his work and his

lifestyle. And I asked him about his stress tolerance. And he was like, oh, it's so high. I managed so

many important projects. And I said to him, do you think managing important projects equals stress?

Like, does it have to? Sometimes the stress is the story that we love to tell because it suits our ego

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