Stress is a byproduct of subconscious beliefs you have about the world. You can't choose not to believe something. You believe it because you think it's true. To eliminate stress, you must learn to challenge these beliefs so that you see them differently.

To believe that your husband, wife, parents, kids, boss, job, bank account, or body is even partly responsible for your emotions, to think that there are bullets 'out there' that you have to contend with, that there are stressful life events to overcome, is to miss something vital.

If you're successful and stressed out, you're succeeding in spite of your stress, not because of it.

People around the world now complain about stressors everyday, and the word shows up throughout professional and lay literature. But in reality there is no such thing as a stressor. Why not? Because nothing has the inherent power to provoke stress.

People often say that stress is a motivator. What we're referring to when we say this is really better described as stimulation and engagement.

We all enjoy pushing ourselves to accomplish our objectives. But we don't need stress to get there.

Stress is the negative whirlwind of emotions that gets imposed on top of our stimulation and engagement.