- “Success in Green Team was about managing stress and performing at your peak level—all the time.” No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden (Owen, Mark Maurer, Kevin) Page 13
- “Comfort is the biggest risk to, and enemy of the otherwise economically productive entrepreneur. Risk, stress and critical decision making are our constant companions and are welcome in the context of making significant changes in our lives and circumstances.” Jeffrey Peterson, CEO of Mobile Corp, Founder of quepasa.com
- “If stress is what’s causing restless nights, exercise is one of the best things you can do to stop worries from keeping you up. In one study, Texas A&M University scientists found that the fittest people exhibited lower levels of stress hormones in their bloodstreams than subjects who were least fit.” The New Abs Diet: The 6-Week Plan to Flatten Your Stomach and Keep You Lean for Life (The Abs Diet) (David Zinczenko and Ted Spiker). Page 21
- “When you pack on extra padding around your gut, your heart pumps harder to force blood into all that new fatty tissue. When you nosh on potato chips and other high-sodium foods, your body retains water in order to dilute the excess sodium, increasing overall blood volume. When you line your arteries with plaque from too many fatty meals, pressure increases as the same amount of blood has to squeeze through newly narrowed vessels. When you let the pressures of the day haunt you into the night, your brain pumps out stress hormones that keep your body in a perpetual state of fight-or-flight anxiousness, also forcing your heart to pump harder. High-salt, high-fat diets and an excess of stress all combine to create a dangerous situation.” The New Abs Diet: The 6-Week Plan to Flatten Your Stomach and Keep You Lean for Life (The Abs Diet) (David Zinczenko and Ted Spiker). Page 22
- “For me, the nerves usually kick into high gear in the middle of the night. I’ll sleep for a few hours, then—bang!—my brain is up and spinning. “Should I have done this, should I have done that? God, what a terrible call in the fourth quarter. Maybe I should have called a different play?” And so on. Sometimes I have to sit and meditate for a long time before the noise settles down and I can go back to sleep.” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success (Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty) Page 333
- “Worrying won’t stop the bad stuff from happening, it just stops you from enjoying the good.” Charlie Brown
- “Lieutenant Nelson also learned something else: that foxholes invite serious introspection. One evening the M.A.S.H. unit where he was working came under attack. He and Dr. Simeone shared a foxhole for most the night. “Dr. Simeone, devout Catholic, and I, a devout Latter-Day saint, prayed unitedly in our foxhole that our lives might be preserved,” he recalled. Lieutenant Nelson later reflected later how much it meant to face life-threatening danger with a man of faith whose beliefs may have differed from his but looked to the same Source for comfort and strength. Their combined faith was a boon to both that stressful night,” Insights from a Prophet’s Life: Russell M. Nelson, Page 42
- “The top “stress maladies” involved arrhythmia, chest pain, hernia indicators, headache symptoms, and stomach ulcer symptoms. As compared to pre-recession statistics, searches on the internet for these symptoms were up: Arrhythmia up 32%, Chest Pain up 35%, Hernia up 37%, Headaches up 1935, Ulcers up 228%” How a Lousy Economy Can Make You Sick, Gil Weinreich