Andrew Russell

It's got a bad rap, but it gets to a point when it's a bad thing.

is a threat or whatever's going in your life is a threat and you go into survival mode and you start to spiral and you feel like you can't control that situation, then you have an issue.

Versus it's stressful, it's challenging, but you're in a mindset that you feel like I can deal with this challenge.

You don't actually have to change the outcome, but the process of working towards the outcome is what really matters when reducing stress.

Don't ignore it.

And don't push it away.

Because what happens is it just sits in your subconscious.

So although you might not be thinking about it all the time, it is there and it is affecting you at a hormonal level and it's affecting everything in your life.

So just deal with it.

They feel like they're just getting stuff done.

And then they go, I'll deal with that at four o'clock in the afternoon or five.

And then something else pops up and then I just go to the next day and the next day.

They need to test the theory.

They need to try it out.

They need to say, is that working?

Did that work well?

That reflection piece is a critical part of our development and reducing stress.

And if we actually really listen to ourselves, our body gives us amazing information.

So listen to that information.

So if you're making poor decisions consistently, not a one-off bad decision, but consistently poor decisions day after day after day.