Increasing Stress Solves Your Problems

There’s 2 types of stress— Distress and Eustress.

Distress comes from no control, long-term struggles, or feeling threatened for your life and other very negative things that can happen to you.

Eustress is short term stresses, you chose to do it, and they’re disciplined tasks.

You don’t need less stress. You need more good stress.

Every person you look up to is stressed, whether it’s good or bad, they’re under heavy stress.

From Elon, to Ronaldo, to Speed to everyone with a life worthy of living has stress.

So we need to increase our stress tolerance and levels, because it’s an excellent increaser of motivation, flow state, and overall performance.

When you’ve gone through something, anything that increases stress, you build a greater tolerance for it. Everything you’ll ever strive for will cause stress, the better you can deal with it, the greater your odds become.

The quickest way to increase this is by partaking in as many things as you can.

While you’re working, build a business on the side. Do something you don’t like, and spend your free time on something that makes you work.

Learning skills gives great stress. It’s a challenge and the stress/problems are very short term. Whether it’s learning a new martial art, language, or material in a class.

You can then use it in your next endeavour as well as later in your life.

The next fastest and consistent way to increase your good stress is being a very disciplined individual in your work or daily life.

When you’re disciplined you are in control of time, and the input. You also build your discipline muscle every-time you use it, and you don’t need to be disciplined to take action you just need to chose to.

Discipline isn’t a character trait but a decision, and as you keep forcing yourself into things by saying “do it” it becomes easier.

The actions I took that I think honestly led to the bigger things was by starting very small.

Making a healthy drink when I didn’t want too, cleaning all the dishes, making my bed and making one video a week is what I started with in the beginning of my stress tolerance journey and all these tasks still help today.

Don’t throw yourself into the extreme deep end right away, don’t add new tasks you’ve never done just for the sake of it.

Every time I’ve done that it just makes it harder because I hadn’t built the discipline muscle yet.

If your max bench press is 135 lbs, why would make yourself do 180 lbs without the training.

Short challenges has been my main way of increasing stress and also dopamine.

Since I got into business and the ventures that followed, my favourite thing has always been setting 1-4 week long challenges that involve me creating something new and putting it out by a certain deadline or achieving something by then.

The key to this working is to stick your word no matter what. Why would you lie to yourself anyway?

To others is something, but yourself. :0

Make the main focus of these challenges input related, you can’t control whether 100 people will buy or not, but you can control how much effort went into the sales funnel.

You can’t control whether you win, you can only control how hard you try.

This is a mental muscle that gets stronger every-time you reinforce it. The more you tell yourself to do something you don’t want to do, the closer you’ll be to being mentally jacked.

My greatest 1-4 week sprints have been starting this channel, my first profitable business, and learning to read a new language.

It’s very easy to have and increase your positive stress, but it’s extremely difficult when you have negative stress too.

It mainly comes down to blaming yourself for every problem that arises as it gives you ultimate control to end what ever bad is going on.

Focusing on what improves eustress also eliminates your bad stress.

As well as make sure that you’re at least “comfortable” financially. Not millions but “enough to get you by for a few months if you get a huge bill for something unexpected” comfortable.

The worst instigator for the biggest problems you, me and what most people go through is not having enough money.

That’s why I write about earning money and why it’s important to have it a lot on here.

Building something on the side will not only benefit you by causing short term stresses but could also get you to your comfort level financially.

The best moments of my life were when money wasn’t even a thought. Not because I have or had so much but because I didn’t need to worry about the next dollar, and it let me focus on whats going on in the moment.

If you have a $1000 credit card balance, but you have $300 in your accounts, then you won’t be able to focus on what you want too. Your family, misses, friends or even work.

Set yourself up as early as you can and focus on getting to an amount saved so you can live without having the stress of poverty.

It’ll either catch you or you’ll surpass it, there’s no middle anymore.

Hopefully this helps with increasing your good stress which is short term tasks and decreasing your “distress” which starts small but takes over your entire life, the 2 can make or break your life’s trajectory.

Thank you for reading.