Constant high stress levels are not conducive to a healthy lifestyle. If you want to live to a ripe old age then you must do something to relieve the problem.

Now I am not saying the all stress is bad. Moderate levels of stress are an essential good component of the life-mix. We need to be able to cope with the normal pressures of life around us. When we are under stress our heart rate increases our muscles get tense and our senses heighten in order to be able to react quickly to rapidly changing events. Now this is part of out natural survival mechanism.

Now many people work much better under stress assuming that the stressor is related to the work you are doing. So, for example:
If you have a deadline to meet for getting a piece of work done and that deadline is close, your stress levels will increase as you rush to complete the job. Usually your output will increase because you can make decisions quicker and are less prone to deliberating about what to do next. You just think it through and do it. We certainly tend to be more motivated when under this type of stress.

Now this is good assuming that it is in relatively short bursts. But if you try to sustain this high stress working then productivity will drop and your health may be affected. You will start making mistakes and then have to spend even more time correcting things which in turn puts pressure on future deadlines. The problem occurs when we have deadline after deadline and impossible targets to achieve.

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