This is a YouTube video titled "What stress really is. #businessowner #stress #stressmanagement" featuring Rich Schefren discussing the true nature of stress, emphasizing that stress arises from inaction over controllable situations rather than hard work itself. The content was created in October 2023 and focuses on stress management for business owners.
Most people misunderstand what stress really is. See, stress doesn't come from hard work. You can be working incredibly hard and loving it. That's how I feel when I work out. And likewise, you can have no work and be incredibly stressed over something related to that. For example, if you're out of work or don't have any business coming in. But still, if you're approaching it in a disciplined way, like structured prospecting or, you know, a series of job interviews and so on, and working to remedy that situation, you're going to be a lot less stressed than if you're just worrying about it and doing nothing. So the reality is, stress primarily comes from not taking action over something that you can have some control over. I find that if some particular thing is causing me to have stress, that's a warning flag for me. I find as soon as I identify it and make the first phone call or send off the first email message or whatever it is, that I'm going to start to address that situation. Even if it's not solved, the simple fact that I'm addressing it dramatically reduces any stress that might come from it. So stress comes from not taking action over something that you can have some.
