INTRODUCTION

   

Stress occurs when you're not in control, when outside events are driving you instead of you driving events.

Much of this book so far has been about trying to get to a situation where you are in control; where the uncertainty and guesswork surrounding your project have been reduced to a minimum, and where you know you have done all that can be done at any particular point. In Chapter 15 we looked at ways of overcoming problems and difficulties that might be causing you stress. All of the techniques presented in that chapter should cause a significant reduction in your stress levels.

However, even the bravest of us are still prone to anxiety, worry, stress, and so this chapter talks about some other things you can do. In general these things won't remove the cause of the stress “ it is up to other parts of this book to do that for you. What the methods in this chapter will do will be to change your attitude to the issue in question, and hopefully reduce your anxiety about it. Here's a quote to set the tone of this chapter.

You can think about your problems or you can worry about them, and there is a vast difference between the two. Worry is thinking that has turned toxic. It is jarring music that goes round and round and never comes to either a climax or conclusion. Thinking works its way through problems to conclusions and decisions; worry leaves you in a state of tensely suspended animation. When you worry you go over the same ground endlessly and come out the same place you started. Thinking makes you progress from one place to another; worry remains static. The problem of life is to change worry into thinking and anxiety into a creative action.

Harold B. Walker

With this idea in our back pocket, this chapter looks at twelve ways of reducing and controlling stress.

   


How To Run Successful Projects III. The Silver Bullet
How to Run Successful Projects III: The Silver Bullet (3rd Edition)
ISBN: 0201748061
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2001
Pages: 176

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