#330: Stay uptight a little longer

Here is a healthcare warning. As the economy recovers and business picks up, your health and the health of your business may suffer.

Remember what often happened to you after exam time or some equally stressful period? Did you, like many others, end up with the flu or in a minor accident as you relaxed?

An executive recently told me that his heart attack was not triggered by long-term work stress. He believed it was triggered because he was so relaxed after he leaving the stressful job.

It seems that your body becomes so used to fight-or-flight mode that when you finally relax, it struggles to catch up on basic maintenance ignored for too long.

How will you and your business react coming out of this period of stress? Have you delayed basic maintenance? Will you relax your operational and fiscal disciplines? Will you loosen up and mellow out?

Better to stay uptight a little longer, I think.



I’m James McIntosh at nonsenseatwork.com

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