The document discusses stress and strategies for reducing and eliminating it. It lists eight common factors that cause people stress, such as financial issues, relationships, health, and having too much to do. However, it argues that the real reason for stress is having a rigid idea of how things should be that is not aligned with reality. It claims that trying to have control is an illusion and the key is accepting a lack of control. It provides several strategies for reducing stress, including focusing on the present through mindfulness, appreciating the process rather than outcomes, and changing one's mental chatter.

1. Prof. Srikumar Rao
Author, Happiness at Work
How to definitively, completely, utterly
eradicate stress from your life

3. Prof. Srikumar Rao
Author, Happiness at Work

4. How to definitively, completely,
utterly eradicate stress from
your life

5. Stress
Reduction
Kit
Bang
Head
Here
Directions
1. Place kit on FIRM surface
2. Follow directions in circle of kit
3. Repeat step 2 as necessary, or until unconscious
4. If unconscious, cease stress reduction activity

6. Most people report there is more
stress in their life than ever before

7. Eight major factors why people believe
they are undergoing stress

8. 1. Financial

9. 2. Relationships

10. 3. Children

11. 4. Career

12. 5. Health

13. 6. Big external stuff: Politics,
environment, climate change,
animal welfare, crime, species
extinction, etc.

14. 7. Too much to do

15. 8. I’m not where
I want to be

16. Only ONE reason you feel stress

17. You have a rigid idea of
how the universe should
be and the universe is
not playing ball

18. Your life is an endless
quest to have control

19. You DO NOT have control

20. You NEVER had control

21. You will NEVER
have control

22. Control is a myth.
You have the ILLUSION
of control

23. Mental Chatter

24. Appreciation
and Gratitude

25. Invest in the Process,
Not the Outcome

26. Good Thing, Bad Thing, Who Knows

27. Mindfulness
Strive to focus on the present

28. Be a Civil Engineer

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