Mastering: Strategies For Creating Success In College And In Life

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Mastering or maintaining stress can and sometimes will be challenging, though it is always possible to get through it. Stress is comes from multiple things such as, major life changes, work or most commonly school. The problem is maintaining stress and not letting it affect your self esteem or the way you feel about yourself. Skip Downing On Course : Strategies for Creating Success in College And In Life says,” Effective at identifying their distressing feelings early, Creators take positive actions to avoid being hijacked by emotional upset”(218).Creators unlike victims, boycott waiting until the last minute to do something then have to stress over the fact that they did not complete an assignment or something of that nature, the day before

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