Stress: Too Much and Too Little – Part Two
In a previous post, I talked about the importance of maintaining margin. Too much stress for too long a period is unhelpful and destructive.
But as I also demonstrated from the life of Paul, we must not avoid all stress at all costs. I am afraid that far too often I have said “no” to an opportunity simply because it would have stretched me beyond my comfort zone. But I need to be stretched if I am to grow.
I see many parallels to physical training. When I started running (again) in 2009 after knee surgery, I was not able to run more than a kilometer before being totally exhausted. Over the period of a couple of months, I was able to extend that to almost 5 km, a distance with which I was quite satisfied. After all, I was not a serious runner, and already in my late 40’s,… Read the whole post
Ken Guenther