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The Power of a Positive Attitude: Discovering the Key to Success
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The Power of a Positive Attitude: Discovering the Key to Success

by Roger Fritz
June 2008
Beginner
128 pages
1h 59m
English
AMACOM
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Chapter 9. Conquering Burnout and Stress

 

“Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, ‘I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.’”

 
 --ANN LANDERS

All jobs have their share of stress. If they didn’t, they would quickly become boring. It’s when stress becomes distress that problems occur. The stress may show up in the way our behavior has changed. People who had always been patient become impatient. Calm people may become tense. Employees, who before were always cooperative, rebel. Others may show physical symptoms or complain that they have trouble falling asleep or in sleeping through the night. They’re often tired all the time—even if they do get a good rest. ...

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