How to Turn Everyday Stress into Optimal Stress

Managed well, stress can be an ally rather than an enemy. This article by Jan Ascherand Fleur Tonies provides some advice on how to use stress to your advantage. Here are some of the key points:

Stress isn't bad per se. We just need to learn to optimize it rather than minimize it. Turn it into learning, growth, and better performance.
Recognize what stress actually is in order to manage it effectively. Understand it to minimize the downsides and capture the upsides.

-Use it as an engine of personal growth and peak performance.

- Locate and describe your stress, and learn to harness your own response to it. If you understand your stress, you can move deliberately between an energized focused, and creative engaged state and a recovery state, where our brain processes and recuperates.

-Create space for engagement and focus.

-You need cognitive recovery and physical rest. See what works for you and make it a habit.

-Switch between engagement and recovery.

-To help your team manage their stress, create positive conditions for focus and recovery. Be watchful and provide supportive and compassionate leadership.

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