A positive mindset about stress is all it takes to make stress work for us, not against us. There is broad and growing research which shows that a positive mindset about stress can help you live longer, be healthier, positively affect work performance, and help one have a better sense of well being. One study suggests that just by changing one’s mindset from a stress-is-debilitating mindset to a stress-is-enhancing mindset improves how we respond to stress and can reduce the negative impacts of stress (Crum, Salovey, Achor, 2013). Stress can good for us no matter how much stress we have. With nearly one-third of Americans reporting a great deal of stress it is understandable that the focus has been on stress’s negative aspects. The negative
