Secrets of Stress and Success - What if stress wasn’t a sign of weakness, but a whisper to ..
- Hardeep Mann
- May 1
- 2 min read
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Week#19 S is for Stress AND SUCCESS
Stress isn’t always bad. It’s just pressure: the kind that bubbles up when you’ve got more problems or opportunities than you think you can handle.
It’s your system’s way of saying, “This matters.”
But here’s the kicker: it’s often not the world demanding too much of us.
It’s us, demanding too much of ourselves. AND our emotive reaction to that kind of thinking.
stress is a metaphor
You are setting very hard frames in your mind. It’s not your fault. It’s just habituated thinking.
But, you have to decide if you want a better relationship with how you're feeling: or will just keep grinding away.
another way
I’ve learned this the hard way.
For years, I said yes to everything and everyone. Even when my gut said no. Even when my shoulders were up around my ears and I couldn’t sleep from the swirl in my mind.
The biggest shift came when I started using the gentler side of thoughts and thinking to ask: why are my ideas about stress and pressure so damned rigid?!
MENTAL FREEDOM DOESN’T HAVE TO BE DIFFICULT
I started with no's, but not the obvious ones:
No: stress is not a demon
No: the stress does not have to define me - i’m truly capable of being different with it.
No: to having to resort to coping mechanisms
And then i steeped myself in decades of training and lived experience of gaining mental freedom.
It’s a rich immersive one video today: no driving or operating heavy machinery. Includes a talk a gave at @clockwise albert dock.
Proven results
One client said to me recently,
"Stress used to flatten me. Now it flags when I need to slow down and check if I'm the one overloading myself."
That’s wisdom in action.
Stress is not failure. It’s feedback.
What might open up for you if you listened to what your stress is actually trying to say?
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