Christian OsgoodCEO, Multifamily Strategy · CEO at Multifamily Strategy

How To Manage Stress

24 May 2023 · 1 min

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In this short talk, the speaker shares a personal method for eradicating panic attacks and maintaining zero stress by classifying every concern into three distinct buckets. The first bucket contains items that are neither controllable nor influenceable; the speaker advises not to assign stress to these because they are beyond any personal power. The second bucket holds issues that can be influenced but not directly controlled; by taking modest actions—such as apologizing during a heated argument—one can shift the situation out of the influence zone, thereby removing stress. The third bucket comprises matters that are directly controllable; for these, the speaker argues that stressing is wasteful and the appropriate response is immediate action to resolve the problem. By consistently sorting concerns into these categories, stress cannot affect the individual beyond the initial classification.

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How I cured all my panic attacks and eliminated stress from business. A big question we get asked, how do you manage stress? I have a method for this because I am someone who used to have panic attacks. There's a lot going on. So how do I have zero stress all the time? I put them in a few different buckets. So there are things that you cannot control and cannot influence. You're not allowed to assign stress to those. If you can identify, I can't do anything, I'm not allowed to stress about this, that's going to be fine. Next things are things you can influence. I might not be able to directly control it, but what things can I do to impact what is happening. And this can be basically anything in your life. But if you're having an argument and both people are mad, maybe you can't fix that right now, but maybe you could apologize. Just basic things. Once you influence it, it's now back out of your control. No stress allowed. And then the last, what things you can directly control. If you can directly control something, you're wasting your time stressing about it. Just go out and fix your problems. And if you put those in those buckets, they can't impact you beyond that.