Maybe you’re like me and have tried everything else.

Here’s a guaranteed way to reduce stress immediately.

Simplify your life.

• Digital communication makes our lives richer but more stressful.  Consider that more than 95% of our digital and social interactivity is an interruption to productivity and rarely brings us happiness.  It can wait, so let it.
• Multitasking sounds good but it induces even more stress.  Since when does doing two or three things simultaneously make us happier and more successful?  Actively and constantly look for ways to do less.  Twenty percent of what we do everyday gives us 80% of our productivity.  Doggedly search for the things that make up that 20% and do only them.
• Use focused attention.  Work uninterrupted.  Break tasks into small pieces because it is a fact that the bigger the task ahead of us, the harder it is to get the time to work on it.  Divide it into smaller steps and do one at a time.
• Who are the most important people in your life?  Spend your time with them first, not interrupters, usurpers or less important people demanding your precious time.
• Yes, exercise, diet and a positive attitude contribute to stress reduction but actively looking for things to let go of is the Holy Grail of stress reduction.

Eliminating stress will always be replaced by more stress unless you focus your attention on only that which means the most to you in life.

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