Stress!
We all experience it. Even reading the word increases stress.
When you feel it, your adrenal glands go to work to produce stress hormones that prepare your body for emergency action – fight or flight – like running from a grizzly bear.
But normally, we aren’t running from bears (at least not actual bears). Rather, we are dealing with modern “bears”: relationships, financial worries, work issues, time constraints, and more.
Some stress is good. Too much, though, is not so good. Here are five insights I gained reading Allan Kehler’s book Goodbye Stress, Hello Life:
- Stress can kill brain cells.
- Stress can make you gain weight.
- Stress is linked to all six leading causes of death.
- Stress is subjective.
- You were born resilient.
“Oh, great,” you are likely saying, stressing about stress.
But in a recent study of 1,200 elderly people, the participants were asked what their biggest regret was in life. Many stated, “I wish I hadn’t worried so much.”
The study showed that from the vantage point of late life, if people had the chance, they would love to be able to regain all the time they had lost fretting anxiously about the future.
Stress is an obstacle to living an abundant life. It robs us of joy. Having the right plan in place will significantly reduce your stress about the future and can change your perspective on it.
Do you experience anxiety over the future of your finances? What obstacles are you facing that is causing unwanted stress?
Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
