Keeping Your Cool

Deadlines and goals to meet, performance expectations to measure up to, partners and employees to get along with, hectic commutes, technical difficulties, worries about business success, the struggle to achieve a decent work/life balance — it all adds up to stress.

If you work in a high-pressure career or industry, you already know what it feels like to experience occasional bouts of job-related emotional, mental and sometimes even physical distress. A small amount of stress can actually be a positive motivator, keeping us excited and on our toes, but studies show that Americans are putting in longer hours and working harder now than ever before, and it’s definitely taking a toll.