The Root Cause of Stress

Stress.

The reason you can’t sleep at night.

The reason why you can’t seem to enjoy anything.

The reason you can’t live in the moment.

But why are you stressed?

What’s causing that unearthed, deep-down feeling of uneasiness?

“Stress doesn’t come from hard work. Stress primarily comes from not taking action over something that you can have some control over.”

That was by Jeff Bezos, and not one quote I have read has ever hit me nearly as hard.

Do the THING.

It’s different for all of us, but each of you reading this knows exactly what you have been putting off.

Whether it’s that business, that long essay, or that first YouTube video,.

Whatever it is that has been eating at you every day that you know you need to do,

In other words — the root cause of your stress,

Do that.

Remember when you were back at school and you put that piece of homework off until the last night of its deadline?

Remember that feeling of stress you had growing exponentially every day until it was done?

Well, on the contrary, what happened when you did it on the day you got it?

You lived the rest of that week without a stress in the world, as that piece of homework was the only obligation you had at that age.

What if you approached your life in that same way?

What if you actually did the thing you had been putting off?

Don’t you think you’d feel so much better?

So much more fulfilled?

I know there may be so much weight,

So much friction,

and so much resistance to doing that task.

But I promise you, as soon as you take that initial leap, and break through that barrier of resistance, everything becomes so much easier.

And what’s even better is the fact that the more you do it, the easier it becomes.

So whatever it is that you’ve been putting off and know you need to do if you ever want to get anywhere, do it NOW

Otherwise, you’ll get to your deathbed and look back at your life in regret, realising that you could have been so much more but will never get that chance back.

“The more important a call or action is to our soul’s evolution, the more resistance we will feel toward pursuing it” — Steven Pressfield

Whatever your thing is, if you want to relieve yourself of any stress, now is your chance to take action on it.

Otherwise, nothing is ever going to change and you only have yourself to blame.

I’ve missed writing these.

-Oli