Nigel Buxton Update
Stress: the right kind? June 2005

 
  Dear Nigel,

Good Stress: Bad Stress

In my first Nigel Buxton Update I set out to avoid the word "Stress", because of all the negative connotations. But then a friend said to me, "You know there is good stress and bad stress".

This reminded me of the story of tuning a guitar: if the string is too loose, it will not play the note - if it is too tight, it will snap. To play the note in tune, the right amount of tension is needed.

Staying with the guitar, when you have finished to play, you release the tension to rest the instrument.

Do you release the tension from the strings when you have finished to "play"?

 
 
Lions, flexibility and relax

The lion - sorry about the quick switch from music to wildlife, but you know mental flexibility can be a useful attribute - does not run around at high speed all day long, but takes time to relax between bursts of energy.

 
 
Work-horses and Race-horses

The work-horse pulls the plough steadily all day and then rests. The race-horse, however, might find it stressful to plod away all day; just as the work-horse might not like to gallop giving everything he has got over a short distance.

There is a reason why some people go into sales and others into finance/accounting, for example.

Do you know and respect the kind of animal you are?

 
 

Do you have the right kind of stress?

I work with people in business who want to do more with less - to make a greater contribution with less effort - to be more themselves with less holding them back.

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nigel
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