Alleviate Your Stress by Reducing Your Sense of Time Urgency

By Lance Winslow -

Have you ever wondered why some people put so much stress on themselves? You know the Type A personality that is under constant stress, loading themselves up with work, all under severe and near impossible time constraints. Sometimes you marvel at their abilities but then you recognize their sacrifice to their lives, loved ones and their health.

Often what these people are doing is putting themselves under an artificial sense of time urgency. Corporations often do this to their business units, requiring revenue results for ever week, month and quarter. Sales departments do this, as well setting intense sales goals and then quickly wash out anyone that cannot perform. This constant pressure to perform takes its toll on the psyche and the constant long-term stress causes distress on one’s family, life, relationships and eventually health.

If you are someone in this high-risk category, perhaps you might consider balance, that’s right, getting some balance in your life and learn to relax. Not only will you prevent a future heart attack you may very well increase your life expectancy a good ten years. So what is the answer for the Type A personality that sees a sense of urgency in everything?

Well, first they need to realize that their success did not merely come from their sense of urgency and fighter like attitude, but rather it was a combination of their sense of urgency and other factors such as their aptitude, organizational abilities, observational awareness, talent, fast learning and ability to commit to tasks others refused to do.

The success of the Type A personality is not guaranteed, as many end up in prison or lose everything, but someone that has all the right other attributes plus has a sense of urgency blitzing each challenge immediately ends up successful in spite of their flash temper, and quick draw rather than because of it. It is only one important part of their personality.

To reduce the sense of urgency it makes more sense to rely on the other attributes in equal amounts and use the wisdom and knowledge from past endeavors to work smarter. Please consider all this.

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