We hear a lot today about reducing stress and the health benefits of living with less stress.

The question is, how do you do it? How do you keep your cool when the pressure heats up?

How do you stop stress before it starts? Don't go away.

Thanks for being with us for this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram.

Chip serves as our Bible teacher for this global teaching and discipleship ministry,

helping Christians develop an authentic faith.

Well, in just a minute, you'll hear the second half of Chip's talk,

learning how to stop stress before it starts, which is from our series, Overcoming

Emotions That Destroy. And be sure to keep listening after the teaching as Chip share some

additional insights that'll help you in your struggle to control anger. Don't miss it.

Well, with all that said, here's Chip as he begins by continuing to unpack the ways we can

minimize stress. Let's get going.

Number four, admit mistakes and imperfections. If we could just liberate one another,

one of the core values, we only have four at living on the edge, and we did it with the acronym,

L-O-T-E, and the L-L isT-E. And the L-O is for live it out.

We just got, we got to be what we want others to become. And the O is for own your stuff.

Don't blame. Don't tell someone else. It wasn't on time. It was you're late. I love it when

someone says, one of the new guys that's

working with us, and I get this email, hey, Chip, sorry, man, haven't done this in years. I thought

my plane was to leave it this time. It's no one else's fault. I didn't look at the thing. I missed

my plane. I'll miss the meeting. I blew it. Sorry. I wrote him an email back. I said, hey, Rick, let me tell you this. You made my day. Thanks so much. You didn't tell me it was someone else's fault. You didn't tell me your assistant blew it. You didn't tell me that you'd renegotiated things and thought it might be better to come a second day, but you're really sorry.

There was no smoke.

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