What can I can tell you about handling stress? You be the judge….

I have lived through tornadoes, earthquakes, fire, floods, hurricanes, and IRS audits. I have been out to sea on a small ship (Navy destroyer) in a gale—30 foot waves can be very stressful on a ship that size. I once fell off a 230-ft tower, and—shades of Indiana Jones—found myself dangling from one arm while I held precariously to a small stub of steel (a thermocouple well) while awaiting rescue. I have stood in line at Wal-Mart on Christmas Eve, and I have driven a car in Boston. Yes, I can tell you about stress.

Then there are the more personal things, like being shot at by my (now ex) wife’s paramour (I love the sound of gunfire in the morning?). For a time in my life, too, I seemed to attract muggers (none of whom were successful)—with their various weapons, rottweilers roaming unleashed, and other threats to my person.

What about that time in my life when I took a year off work to finish graduate school and then couldn’t find work for nearly six months after I completed my Masters degree? Yes, that was stressful, especially when my savings were starting to run low.

I’ve been betrayed, lied to, heartbroken, scammed, taken advantage of, and generally treated about the way a baby treats a diaper. By people who had no reason other than their own meanness to treat me that way (hold on to that thought—it’s going to come in handy, later). Most of us have been through the broken-heart ringer, but I seem to have a knack for finding the most heartless of women (no offense to the few past romantic interests who were very special people and things just didn't work out). To top it off, telemarketers call me constantly.

I’ve had bad food, been forced to listen to country music, and endured allergic attacks that make breathing almost impossible. I’ve had to work for a company that cheats me every pay check. I worked for one that forced me to work every holiday unpaid, but kept telling me "we pay for holiday work at the end of the year"—they laid me off right before Thanksgiving! I’ve had to work for companies that insist I use a computer 8 generations behind what the job requires. That wouldn't have been so bad, if the computer at least had a working video card.

Some of the best friends a guy could ever have died on me. Some of the worst friends a guy could have wouldn’t go away for the longest time! And I have said goodbye to close friends with a series of job-related moves. I’ve had a parade of women through my life—some of whom I have just fallen head over heels for, only to be discarded (by some) like yesterday’s trash—now, that’s stress.

Family stress, job stress, financial stress—I have had it all. Yet, today, people routinely underestimate my age by 10 to 15 years. The stress doesn’t show. What I am going to share with you is how I have handled or mishandled stress, what things work and don’t work, and how you might learn from what I have done. And we’ll look at some ways to improve on that.

Don’t get the wrong impression. I have often mishandled stressful situations. And like everyone else, I have mishandled unstressful situations and created my own stressful situations as a result. You’ll see why we all do this, and maybe you can accept that you are going to make bad decisions. The idea behind this philosophy is you can avoid getting stressed out over the fact you got stressed out. That old saw about being able to accept what you can’t change and changing what you can is good advice you’ll get some specifics on implementing.

The main thing you need to know about stress is it can kill you or it can help you, depending on how you handle it. That is why we offer this course: so you can convert stressful inputs into progress rather than debilitation.

At this point, we are at a crossroads. We could write a few hundred words of promotional text and hope to bore you into a buy decision. Or, we could just tell you how to purchase the course. We decided to respect your time.

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