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THE SINGLE GREATEST KEY TO
BEATING STRESS

PHIL COOKE

Is life, your job, or your career stressing you out? If you’re The bottom line is that far too often, we give up controlling
trying to accomplish anything with your life, and you were things we have power over, and when that happens, our
honest, I’ll bet you’d admit to being stressed out at least personal stress levels escalate.
some of the time. In fact, you may be stressed out pretty
much ALL the time. So if stress is a bigger and bigger part of LET GO OF THE THINGS YOU
your life, then here’s one important thing you need to learn: CAN’T CONTROL, AND START
The greatest key to beating stress is to control the things you CHANGING THE THINGS YOU
can. The truth is, we often allow simple things that we can
control to get away from us. And when we start harnessing CAN.
those things once again, the stress equation dramatically
changes. PHIL COOKE

Certainly we can’t control airline schedules, client behav- If you take this advice seriously, and do it on a daily basis,
ior, the weather, unexpected events, difficult co-workers, you’ll be amazed and just how quickly you’ll start relaxing
or other things out of our influence. But there are plenty of and getting your life back in control.
things we can control, and when we do, those issues start
making a much smaller impact. For instance, we can con-
trol our sleep schedule, and science has proven that simply
getting enough sleep will dramatically change our attitude
and productivity. We can control showing up late, and that
issue alone will reduce enormous stress.

We can control how we respond to a crisis, how often we
exercise, quiet times, our spiritual life, and our attitude about
work. When you stop and think about it, you have far more
control over life than you think.