Quotes About Stress

Esta adicción no sólo es innecesaria, también es estúpida. Trabajar más horas no implica que estés más involucrado o que seas más productivo. Simplemente implica trabajar más horas.

Working more doesn't mean you care more or get more done. It just means you work more. Workaholics

el auténtico enemigo en un ambiente de trabajo a distancia de éxito es el exceso, no el déficit de trabajo.

Long lists are guilt trips. The longer the list of unfinished items, the worse you feel about it. And at a certain point, you just stop looking at it because it makes you feel bad. Then you stress out and the whole thing turns into a big mess.

Breathe in the smell of exhaust and body odor, breathe out your health and sanity.

long commutes make you fat, stressed, and miserable. Even short commutes stab at your happiness. According

Smart people in white coats have extensively studied commuting—this supposedly necessary part of our days—and the verdict is in: long commutes make you fat, stressed, and miserable. Even short commutes stab at your happiness.

If you're constantly staying late and working weekends, it's not because there's too much work to be done. It's because you're not getting enough done at work. And the reason is interruptions.

In reality, it's overwork, not underwork, that's the real enemy in a successful remote-working environment.

Why do we pay for psychotherapy when massages cost half as much?

You know the problem is her—she brings out your worst. But it is your worst. It's you under pressure, you in conflict. It's here that we often have the most room to grow. When we are under stress or in conflict we lose skills we normally have, impact others in ways we don't see, are at a loss for positive strategies. We need honest mirrors in these moments, and often that role is played best by those with whom we have the hardest time.

I definitely get the sense that you don't like discussing your schedule, at least not the way I bring it up. The problem for me is that I feel worried and I would like to share why in a way that's helpful. I don't seem to know how to do that, and I was wondering if you had any advice.

2 Timothy 3:1. Here it is in the Amplified Bible: "But understand this, that in the last days dangerous times [of great stress and trouble] will come [difficult days that will be hard to bear].

I don't need time, I need a deadline.

Whenever we try to be perfect, behind any noble purposes we have lies our desperate need to be accepted. It is this same unexpressed need that most often drives us to take on too much. In trying to be perfect we worked on the quality of our activities: Was that good or clever enough? Did I impress them with how well I did that? In taking on too much, we stress the quantity of what we do: Have I done enough? Perhaps if I do just one more thing they will be compelled to like me.

Worry is a word that I don't allow myself to use.

Whenever you become anxious or stressed, outer purpose has taken over, and you lost sight of your inner purpose. You have forgotten that your state of consciousness is primary, all else secondary.

Stress is caused by being "here" but wanting to be "there," or being in the present but wanting to be in the future.

You may remember the paradox of time we mentioned earlier: Whatever you do takes time, and yet it is always now. So while your inner purpose is to negate time, your outer purpose necessarily involves future and so could not exist without time. But it is always secondary. Whenever you become anxious or stressed, outer purpose has taken over, and you lost sight of your inner purpose. You have forgotten that your state of consciousness is primary, all else secondary.

When you want to arrive at your goal more than you want to be doing what you are doing, you become stressed.

When you want to arrive at your goal more than you want to be doing what you're doing, you become stressed.

Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry — all forms of fear — are caused by too much future, and not enough presence.

When there is stress, it is usually a sign that the ego has returned, and you are cutting yourself off from the creative power of the universe.

Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don't realize this because almost everybody is suffering from it, so it is considered normal.