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You Can’t Avoid Stress - and sometimes that is a good thing.
Tuesday, August 15, 2023
|Lost your keys, car broke down, an extra assignment at work. Having a stress-free life is like finding a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. It doesn’t happen. Sorry for the spoiler.
So, minimize stress and embrace it to perform at your best and to stay healthy. To learn more, take our quiz. Don’t worry. To make it less stressful, it is true and false, and all the answers are false.
Now that the scary stuff is out of the way, short-term stress is actually good for you. According to a study from the University of California, Berkley, short-term stress can help you be more alert and improve your focus and memory.
According to Harvard Health, analyzing your stress can help you avoid the negative side effects. Figure out what is causing you to be stressed and consider options to fix it.
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