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As an entrepreneur or a solopreneur we want to enjoy stress management at work. However chasing this dream can easily destroy your health because we are moving so quickly and determined to succeed at any cost.

Wayne: Cecil, why is that a myth?

 Cecil: It’s a myth because sometimes we lose focus.

Let me tell you a story about an experience I had while working in the corporate world. There was a young gentleman who was determined to become the president of this particular company where I was working. He was going to do any and everything to accomplish this.

He and his manager got along quite well. He would offend a lot of people and do a lot of things he wasn’t supposed to do in order to get in his opinion where he needed to be going. He offended a lot of people in many different ways.

When you’re focused, it’s amazing how much you can accomplish.

He and the manager were doing well and he offended people. Then the manager got promoted and left him where he was.

There were about 25 or 30 people with the same qualifications in the organization. It wasn’t likely for him to move up.

He had created so much havoc among the sales reps that nobody really liked him.

His manager had been promoted. The next thing he knew, he was off from work and having health issues. I don’t know if it was a nervous breakdown.

The challenge wasn’t the outcome to reach whatever position he wanted to reach in the company. His challenge was he didn’t care how he did it. He was ruthless about it.

The myth is that he had to be ruthless in order to get what he needed to get. The consequence of his ruthlessness was that his health suffered.

There was no reason for him to treat anybody the way he did. They were not children, but he treated everyone like a child. That was the challenge he had.

Simply follow the story above to determine how well you are applying stress management at work and are you headed for a nervous breakdown. You can achieve your goals without pushing other people around. Now here’s my challenge to you: Think of three ways in which you can achieve your goal by helping others get what they want.

Cecil McIntosh guides solo-preneurs and entrepreneurs worldwide to slow down, learn to relax, stress less and overcome chronic symptoms so that you can quickly experience profound peace, power and work life balance. You can get the other 20 Tips of 21 no-brainer shortcuts to achieving health and happiness at http://eycfreebook.com You can reach Cecil at http://www.cecilhelpdesk.com

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In my many years of working with entrepreneurs and solopreneurs they are so busy that they do not even recognize the affect of stress on their dream.

The myth is: Stress causes you to be in the hospital with chest pains.

Wayne: That is stress, isn’t it? How can that be a myth, Cecil?

Cecil: I can use myself as a personal example. I had my physical yesterday. I have a doctor I’ve known now for over 35 years.

I went to his office with a pain in my chest. I remember this very vividly. He actually personally took me out of his office, downstairs to his car and to the emergency room.

When I got to emergency room, I said, “What am I doing here?” That’s when I discovered I had some issues. The myth here is not about stress causing you to be in the hospital with chest pains.

Tip #1:

I was working for a major corporation which was very stressful. I wasn’t making the adjustment very well.

Tip #2:

The whole problem was that I wasn’t taking care of myself.

Tip #3:

I was very busy working at their schedule.

Tip #4:

Yes, it was a very stressful situation but I never took control.

Tip #5:

I never was focused enough to solve the problem.

When I got to the hospital, I realized, “I have to have a different look at my life.”

Tip #6:

When I looked at my life, I discovered I wasn’t focused enough.

I was taking too many breaks.

I was goofing off. I decided, “I have to solve this problem.”

Tip #7:

I decided to work from 9 to 3. It was a very high-paying job and very stressful but I was working all weekends and nights. I thought, “This is ridiculous.”

I decided I would work from 9 to 3 but it would be tight, meaning my breaks would be very tight and whenever I finished a sale I would write up the sale then and there.

I would do everything tight, and at three o’clock, I would be finished.

Tip #8:

Whatever got done between 9 and 3 would get done and there would be no more working on weekends, nothing.

It was the most productive year I ever had. All of a sudden, I didn’t blink. I just said, “This is what I want to do.” This was a message to me to smarten up.

I was amazed at how much I accomplished and how sharp, effective and productive I was.

Simply follow the steps above and you will avoid the affects of stress in your sales career. Now, I challenge you to do something about your problem by finding a piece of paper and getting busy following the strategy I outlined above.

We eagerly look forward to hearing your stories of success and even enjoying life’s challenges by means of these new approaches. Peace.

Cecil McIntosh guides solo-preneurs and entrepreneurs worldwide to slow down, learn to relax, stress less and overcome chronic symptoms so that you can quickly experience profound peace, power and work life balance. You can get the other 20 Tips of 21 no-brainer shortcuts to achieving health and happiness at http://eycfreebook.com You can reach Cecil at http://www.cecilhelpdesk.com

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