10 Things that Accumulate Stress & Ruin Careers

1. Guilt/Wasted Emotions
1. Regretting what you could have done

Why didn’t you accept that first position? Why did you pass up on the small business that is now huge? Why didn’t you have that salad instead of a taco for lunch? You have to STOP it! You can’t keep replaying the past over and over in your head. It will literally drive you insane. What’s done is done. Get over it.

2. Always look forward with a positive attitude

You have to stay positive and keep looking ahead. It will keep you not only happy, but with a rewarding career that you won’t be regretting later. See a pattern?

2. Discipline- The foundation of Greatness
1. Start from the beginning to build up

You have to start from the beginning with anything in business is you want this to work. You can’t take that project from the middle. And you can’t change yourself or your career if you just go at it from here and now. You have to start from the beginning and the get at the root. It’s that only way to uproot a stump and weeds. 

3. Rejection- Don't take it personal
1. Don't wear the nos

Someone told you no. Obviously that makes you a failure at life, WRONG! It means the person you interacted with is human, just like you. So, why are you so fixated on this one no? It’s only going to hinder any yes you will receive, what you need right now. 

4. Disappointment- Don't be afraid of what the other people think
1. Keep going despite the odds

Please please please stop caring. I can’t stress this enough. You want to wear a sponge bob tie and have a puzzle party every Tuesday, do it! You want to create a campaign that no one else thinks will work? Just try it! If you the worst outcome is that you fail, then you are only where you started. But, what if you succeed? What if you achieve greatness? What if you become awesome?

5. Schedule- Write down what you can’t do
1. Keep it up & keep the accountability

Daily Docket. Weekly planner before you start each Monday. It’s not that hard. Take less than an hour each weekend to prepare for next week. Then take 10 minutes each morning before you do anything to fill in your daily docket and make sure you know what needs to get done. Then do it. Have someone keep a copy with them and check in on you at the end of the day for the next week. Make sure it’s someone you trust and don’t want to disappoint. I bet you’ll be a time and task master after just two weeks of that. Well…. maybe not master. But way better than where you were before. 

6. Fear- Do things you're scared to do
1. Stay out of the comfort zone

Do you like to stay in your office? Lock yourself out of it an hour a day. Do you like socializing a lot with everyone? Lock yourself in for an hour a day. Hate doing lead calls? GO in person. Love leading the meetings? Have someone else do them this week. It’s hard, yes. And you’ll hate it at first. But it is necessary to grow. You can’t stay in that little pot, you’ll only bloom in the garden soil.

7. Procrastination- Waiting to get things done
1. Why wait?

Really. Why? Just freaking do it. Now. Seriously. GO DO IT!

2. Laziness

Lazy people are like zombies. You don’t notice they’re dead just yet, but then you do. They continue to do things the same way over and over despite their continual failure and self injury. They don’t know their dead. And you can’t tell them. It’s a vicious cycle that never ends. If you are thinking of that lazy person right now, email them this. Several times. With this paragraph highlighted and font sized to 320. Then, maybe, they will get it. Eventually. If you can’t think of anyone like this, then it’s probably you. Sorry for the future emails.

8. Quota- Motivate people
1. Goals to keep us focused

Don’t you dare just right a number on a post-it and call it a goal. That my friend is not a goal. A SMART Goal must be made, not just write. You need goals, you need Quotas. You need motivational means. Don’t just set them, go after them. 

9. Deliverance- Explain why good things happen
1. Proving the system

So, why did that work? It’s an odd question that you don’t get a lot. Everyone wants to know why it failed, but when it works they just smile and pat you on the back. Do you even know why it worked? If you know, you could make it better. Think about it. 

10. Peer Attack- In the office complications
1. Hostile work environments

You have at least a person or ten on your mind right now. It’s normal, unfortunately. You could change that you know. Find just one good thing about that person or situation, anything good about it (without being sarcastic in the answer). Fixate on that one thing, that small glimmer of hope. Fan that beautiful flame and it will ignite a true goodness in the person or situation. Just try it. What’s the worst that could happen?