I’ve been doing a lot of personal development work lately in order to become the very best version of myself.
Most recently, I did a transformative workshop with Dr. Eugene Choi and came to a realization: I’m addicted to stress and pressure.
So often, we talk about wanting to alleviate stress, but I think that I’ve become physically addicted to stress and adrenaline and will even create stress out of relatively stress-free situations to feel “normal.”
I have this belief that stress and pressure are what keep me performing at high levels and getting results.
I’m coming around to the idea that I might have been wrong. (Clutch pearls here).
Being a type-A high achiever in school and then a high-performing nonprofit executive meant that stress was a constant.
What if I could have accomplished all that I have and will accomplish without the heart-racing stress reaction?
What if I could have been as equally successful without the self-created stress?
What if we could thrive in the nonprofit field without sacrificing ourselves, burning out or stressing about money?
What if we could experience joy, abundance and rejuvenation from our work?
It’s never the thing that happens to us—it’s the interpretation of the event and the story of meaning we keep telling ourselves.
Who would we be as a sector if we stopped telling ourselves the story that succeeding as a nonprofit leader means failing to take care of ourselves?
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