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The Reason You Feel So Burnt Out and Overwhelmed? Maybe It's Microstress Network Strategy: Elevate Personal Performance and Well-beingThe Reason You Feel So Burnt Out and Overwhelmed? Maybe It’s Microstress

Inc.

Why do so many of us feel so exhausted despite our seemingly stable and successful lives? Because of microstress, argues a new book.

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Photo by Elisa Ventur on Unsplash Network Strategy: Elevate Personal Performance and Well-beingHow to Cope When Your Job and Your Values Clash

Washington Post

In their new book, The Microstress Effect: How Little Things Pile Up and Create Big Problems — and What to Do About It, Rob Cross and Karen Dillon explain that when jobs include tasks that challenge employees’ personal values, it creates stress in part by undermining their sense of identity. That can gradually wear people down.

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Tiny stressors, major impact: how to keep ‘microstress’ from wrecking your health and happiness Network Strategy: Elevate Personal Performance and Well-beingTiny Stressors, Major Impact: How to Keep ‘Microstress’ From Wrecking Your Health and Happiness

Fortune Well

Many people who feel like they’re under immense pressure aren’t facing any big, obvious culprit. They might not even be able to pinpoint why they’re so stressed, despite an unshakeable feeling that they’re barely holding things together. What’s going on? In their new book, The Microstress Effect, Rob Cross and Karen Dillon argue that tiny aggravations can take a major toll on your mental and physical well-being.

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The Microstress Effect by Rob Cross and Karen Dillion Network Strategy: Elevate Personal Performance and Well-beingReview of The Microstress Effect

Porchlight

“The Microstress Effect is a great read for anyone, but especially for the person who wants to understand where their mental energy is going and how best to rebuild and protect it. After reading this book, I feel better equipped to understand the underlying and accumulating causes of stress we all encounter and to move towards creating a more resilient and healthy life for myself and for others.”

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Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash Network Strategy: Elevate Personal Performance and Well-beingMicrostresses Derail Our Goals. Counter Them and Keep Them in Perspective

The Globe and Mail

“Look for opportunities to connect with people beyond your closest circle of friends, which will take you away from those who reinforce self pity or anger at microstresses. Finally, look at how you create microstresses for others. Cut it out.”

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Microstress Effect Network Strategy: Elevate Personal Performance and Well-beingFT Business Books: What to Read This Month

Financial Times

You can do this short summary: From the Financial Times What to Read This Month:  “Through their research, which involved hundreds of interviews with high performers across a multitude of companies [Cross and Dillon offer] strategies to make small adjustments that reduce the impact of microstress — in particular, by strengthening connections with others.”–Financial Times

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Be Mindful of Microstress with Karen Dillon Network Strategy: Elevate Personal Performance and Well-beingBe Mindful of Microstress with Karen Dillon

Karen Dillon talks with Caroline Dowd-Higgins about the hidden toll of microstresses that infiltrate our whole day, sap emotional reserves, and challenge our identities. Learn the 2-2-2 strategy to help you fight back from her book with Rob Cross, “The Microstress Effect” on #yourworkinglife 

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