Article November 1, 2004 Issue

THE PAUSE THAT UNSTRESSES

By Kathy Ream

I was Really Stressed Out at work—so much so that I had to give myself a pep talk each morning just to leave my house.

I was in charge of several projects at the same time, none of which had ever been done before. We were missing deadlines for the manufactured items, and vendors were not coming through with what they'd promised. My assessment of the situation: There was no way it was all going to happen, and I was responsible.

One day, sitting at my desk with eight hundred zillion things to do, I was so stressed out that I literally did not know what to do next. This is ridiculous, I thought. I can't live like this anymore.

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