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Stress: The ability to maintain action.
By Oswaldo Koch

Without Stress, Who Can Survive?

Stress helps us get things done. Without stress, we would live dull and boring lives. No one would care about health, work, money, politics, or anything else that makes our lives interesting. Yes, stress can be helpful.

Too much stress is not good for your health, but it turns out too little isn't ideal, either. Stress can benefit the immune system, preparing the body to withstand things like infections, and also pushes us to be most effective at the tasks at hand.

While chronic stress-the kind that never seems to let up-can set off dangerous inflammation in the body, increasing your risk for heart disease, obesity, and cancer, it turns out that in small doses, stress is actually healthy.

Many people don't think about stress management unless they're already on the verge of burnout. With our busy lives, it doesn't always seem obviously important to take on the practice of stress management before a worn-out body or an overly taxed psyche force the issue.

The key, to manage stress is balance. Too little stress and you're bored and unmotivated; too much and you become not just cranky but sick. Stress management brings positive outcomes like increased productivity, better health and more happiness in general.

One of the best ways to manage stress is to set personal goals. Goal setting techniques are used by top-level athletes, successful business people and achievers in all fields. Goals give you long-term vision and short-term motivation. Goals provide definition about how to think and act; goals help you organize your time and your resources efficiently; goals helps you manage daily stress by taking consistent action and becoming more productive with your time.

Live a Fit and Prosperous Life!