 There's two types of stresses. There's acute stress and chronic stress. Acute stress is something that happens periodically. Example, you go to the gym once in a while or every other day. That's acute stress. Chronic stress is something that happens on a day-to-day basis that elevates your heart rate, that makes you sweat, and guess what? 99% of the time you're not even aware of it. I'll give you some examples. Your alarm clock, that's stressful. The job you don't like, that's stressful. The foods that you shouldn't eat, that is stressful. The sour relationship that you're in, that is stressful. The lack of money that you make, that is stressful. The lack of spirituality that you have in your life, that is stressful. And all these small things in your life compound to guess what? Be one enormous stress ball. And it eats on you and eats on you until you realize, damn, my life sucks. But I want you to erase that mentality because I'm going to be teaching you some simple things to manage stress and to handle yourself better. See, most people in a stressful situation, they'll do this. They will react to the situation. They hear, oh god, these bills are coming or unexpected bills arise and they'll start reacting. They don't know what to do. They start stressing out, oh my god, what am I going to do? I need to make more money. And this is the problem. They go into fight or flight mode right away. They're reacting. I'm going to keep on repeating this word, react, react, react, because it's a very poisonous and dangerous thing to do in your life, is to react. You get this bad news that you need to pay more bills or some type of new, you know, financial responsibility came on your plate and now you're stressing. You're like, I already work enough. How am I going to make more money? How do I get more free time? Now your brain shuts down. You start seeing things in black and white as opposed to seeing things in many different colors. And now you have these blinders on. It's called willful blindness. This is one of 25 cognitive biases. And that's the biggest problem when it comes to stress is reacting. What are you supposed to do though instead? So instead of reacting to a situation, you got to respond to a situation. The Stoics are really good at this. Aristotle, Socrates, Plato, and all the mystics back in the day. The difference between reacting and responding is this. If a stressful situation arises such as unexpected bills, instead of you reacting saying, Oh, shit, I'm screwed. I have no time or where I'm going to get the extra income. You should start dissecting the problem be like, Okay, I got this bill. This is a fact. This is reality. Let me dissect the situation at the moment. Maybe I can get the bill reduced. I didn't think about that before. Maybe I shouldn't even be working this hard in the first place. Maybe this makes you rethink what you're doing in the first place. So the whole idea of the response situation is you need to understand your problem and you need to understand your solutions, plural, not singular. And that's the problem. Most people have with stress is they're reacting and only looking at yes or no, black or white or I'm screwed or hell. Yeah. In response mode, you're looking at million different options both from you as a receiver and the stressor as a sender. You're dissecting and investigating like a detective, the actual stress itself. And what you're investigating is maybe the stress shouldn't be here in the first place. Maybe I can eliminate this through a couple of phone calls or maybe through my lifestyle changes, the stressor can be eliminated. Or if you're looking at how you can deal with the stress, maybe if I do X, Y and Z. So what I want you to do is on a piece of paper, you're going to, you know, here we go. I'll just do this right now. I don't know where that thing went. Here we go. On a piece of paper, you're going to draw a big line. And on the top, you're going to have stressor and you're going to have you or you have options actually. Okay. So what you want to do is write down the stress over here. So let's say more bills. And then I don't want you to write down the options. So this is respond mode. And you can do this for any single stress. It can be like, for example, here, weight loss. Oh, you're stressing. You got a wedding to go and you can't lose 20 pounds. Instead of stressing, which shown scientifically to actually cause you to gain more weight, you break down and you start responding to a wait a second. Maybe my diet is no good. Okay. My sleep pattern is no good. Okay. Oh, my relationship, my toxic relationship. So you start breaking down everything and you start doing your due diligence on the actual stressor and what you can do about it. And you go on and then you need to do a deep dive on this. And what's really good about this is this, listen, regardless of who you are, you're always going to be facing stress in the future. This is where the superpower comes in. The more you understand and master responding instead of reacting, the quicker turnaround time this happens. Example, unforeseen bills, some bullshit lens on your lap. It took you last time three weeks to handle that problem. It's going to happen again. I guarantee it. So this time around, instead of taking three weeks, you're doing two weeks because you've been in this situation before. You responded instead of reacting. You know exactly what to do. You're priming your mind, creating new neural pathways, creating new habits, creating a growth mindset, as opposed to a static mindset where you're reacting, stressing your style flow, you're responding and becoming the master, which takes me to the secondary part of this. When you become the master or responding, you take away the power of victimhood. And that's the biggest disease in the world is victimhood. I'm a victim. Something happens. The stressor happens to you gain weight. I'm a victim. More bills happen. I'm a victim. I don't have a job. I'm a victim. My boss fire me. I'm the victim. As soon as you declare yourself a victim, you have lost. You are a slave to that mentality. So let me repeat that again. You are a slave to the mentality. As soon as you say you're a victim of something. So X-nade that, scratch that, become the master instead of the slave. Respond eloquently and adequately towards your situation. And that's that. We're going to keep it very simple for today's video. Respond instead of reacting, master your life, master your mind. Don't play the victim card. And you're going to kick some freaking ass. Booyah. Adios. Peace.