Mastering Stress: Proactive Strategies from a Navy SEAL Leader (Full Transcript)

Speaker 1: And that's how you handle stress. You attack it. In any environment, whether it's combat or whether it's the business world, as a leader, you're gonna feel stress. You're gonna feel pressure. When I was in the SEAL teams, obviously deployed overseas, as the leader in a leadership position, I would feel stress. And there's some things that I had to figure out to learn how to deal with that stress. The number one thing you need to look at is, am I stressed about something that I can control or is it something that I cannot control at all? And if you discover that it's something that you can't control, that you are getting stressed about, the best thing you can do is look at it, assess it, realize that you have no control over it whatsoever, and then not worry about it. Just say, okay, I'm good with it. I'm gonna move on. Focus on the things that you can do something about. And then what do you do? You attack those problems. When I get into a situation like that, oh, I think there might be a problem over here. It's causing me stress. Guess what I'm gonna do? I'm going to attack it. Instead of being in a defensive mindset, be in an offensive mindset. Think to yourself, okay, I'm not going to get ridiculed in this meeting. I'm going to attack this meeting. I'm gonna crush this meeting. I'm gonna do a great job. That's what I'm thinking. I'm not worried about what if I look funny? What if I say something bad? I'm not thinking that. Why? It goes back to preparation. And what this boils down to is, do you have the discipline up front to be prepared for these situations that you're going into? Because if you slacked off and you didn't prepare properly, guess what? You're going to be nervous. And you know what? You should be, because you didn't prepare properly. So what you should do is wake up early, know your material, train hard, study hard, be prepared for the situation that you're going into, and then there's no stress. There's just, quite honestly, fun. And that's it. I hope you enjoyed this video. If you did, make sure to like, subscribe, and I'll see you next time. Bye.