Chapter One
Treading the challenge and stress path
I try not to listen to the shoulds or coulds, and try to get beyond expectations, peer pressure, or trying to please – and just listen. I believe that all the anwers are ultimately within us.
KIM CATTRALL
Our business lives are becoming more and more pressurised. We’re so caught up in the frenetic pace, with higher levels of demand and more resource constraints, that we don’t recognise when the pressure becomes too much. Or, worse still, we ignore it.
So a good place to start on your pressure journey is by developing the ability, at any point, to recognise where you are with the demands you face. This will prompt a greater desire for you to look after yourself and will provide you with an ...
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