Chapter 5 Control your attitudes

What is important to you?

What is really important to you?

What things drive the decisions you make in your life? 

One of the major sources of stress is a conflict between these values and some of the requirements that work, or our relationships, or our other choices put upon us. Sometimes it’s a conflict between our values and what we are asked to do, sometimes it’s a conflict with the values of our employer, and sometimes it’s a conflict with the values of the people around us: our bosses, colleagues, customers, family members or social contacts. Sometimes it’s a conflict with the values that we believe will make us successful.

Values conflict ...

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