10May23

What does stress feel like?

• butterflies
• feeling bad
• overwhelming feeling of dis-ease
• sleep issues
• heart racing

The above are actually all symptoms of stress (a disease) so let’s find cure

• the breakdown of stress happens are 3 levels
  • physical level: body failures
  • mental level: mind becomes weaker (i.e. second guessing oneself)
  • intellectual level: issues around decision making
• Symptoms of stress happen at all 3 levels
• So what is stress?
  • Series of all thoughts
  • Thought is just how we relate to an experience

• Economy: supply + demand
  • supply>>demand, less stress
  • supply=demand, no stress
  • supply<<demand, more stress
• What are we trying to balance when it comes to stress?
  • time
  • resources
  • people
• Time- everyone has the same amount of time each day– but how we spend our time is on us in terms of efficiency and effectiveness (efficiency= supply, effectiveness=demand)
  • We can quicken our routines- don’t delay waking up to our alarm clocks, saying no to the transactional
• Activity: Quantifying all the activities we engage in over the period of a week and assign hours/week. Take that number and subtract from 168 hours (# of hours in a week)
• RAW: Take 15 mins to read/write/reflect each day.