Stress isn't something to eliminate but a signal that tells you something about how you're operating. The key is giving yourself time to process it, then using small daily habits to build resilience from it.
Any stress that I feel or any anxiety that I hold, I typically see as an entry point into a self-reflection process journey. It's a test for my own operating system to see, am I working my best or not? So the key here is to inject enough recovery time so that I can process and, as you said, metabolize the stress, use that as a learning practice to say, what new micro practice am I going to test today or this week, this month that is going to help me become stronger, my team gets stronger, my institution gets stronger so that it's not like I'm ignoring the stress or the anxiety or the fear. I'm staying with it, but then I'm metabolizing that.
Reducing Regrettable Attrition in Organizations by Fixing the System, Not the People Reducing Regret
