1. Identify potential causes of stress

Someone once said that worrying is praying for things you don't want to happen.  What a great saying, and, like all sayings, there's a lot of truth in it.  When you think about it, praying is when you concentrate on one thing and then you meditate or "pray" on it to the exclusion of all else.  Usually, too, when you pray you put a lot of emotion into it and, of course, you have a lot of faith in what you are praying about.  When you think about it, isn't that what you do when you worry about something as well?

What Causes Stress For Sales People?

The countless stress factors field salespeople are faced with in their daily life - they come across traffic, visit difficult customers and are often separated from their families for days at a time. In addition to that there is stress between the sales person and the sales manager, as a result a reduction in performance is almost unavoidable.

For business owners that employ people to work for them, the attitude of their staff towards customers is obviously key to building a successful business. But when employees become stressed, even the most productive and successful businesses can suffer.

In August 2010, a fed up and stressed out air steward ranted at passengers for not doing as they were told, opened the door of the plane and used the emergency slide to get off the plane. He snapped and this was his way of handing in his notice.

Ask any small business owner their number one desire on a daily basis, and many will tell you they need to get a handle on their seemingly endless to-do list. In fact, in a recent online survey, small business owners ranked feeling overwhelmed by the sheer volume of their day-to-day activities as a major source of stress. The good news is that, with a few tweaks, the tried-and-true pen and paper to-do list can once again become your ally in efficiency, providing you learn to avoid the 5 biggest "to-do list" mistakes small business owners make.

Longer hours and increasing workloads means that the average weekend lasts just 39 hours and 42 minutes - rather than the full 64 hours - according to new research by female friendly insurer Sheilas' Wheels.

Researchers found employees do not relax and unwind from the office until the early hours of Saturday morning (1.48am) and start worrying about the week ahead from 5.30pm on Sunday. More than a quarter of Brits (29 per cent) surveyed claiming to never switch off from work at all.

Researchers have suggested that unfit men who work long hours are more likely to die from heart disease than those who are fitter, or work shorter hours.

Senior cardiac nurse, Cathy Ross, said: “The study identified that men in general who work between 41 and 45 hours a week can increase their risk of dying from coronary heart disease by 59% compared with those working less than 40 hours a week. Interestingly, there was no increase in risk for men who worked more than 45 hours a week if they were physically fit.