How to Keep Your Composure in Stressful Situations

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In a day and age where everyone and everything around us is moving at lightning speed, it can often be a struggle to constantly try to keep up. The pressure to keep up or be at risk for getting left behind has become an innate mindset, which is now especially ingrained in those of us who were molded throughout the rise of the internet.

I, being one of those individuals, am no stranger to that mindset. Getting things done quickly (and, of course, efficiently) has been a skill that I’ve strived to master over the past few years. And it’s been a particularly necessary skill to have mastered catering to the specific career that I’m currently in. However, constantly moving at such a rapid pace can be extremely stressful and will eventually take a toll on our overall physical and mental health.

Since graduating college and entering my career path, I’ve encountered many situations where tasks were considered urgent and required a very quick turnaround time. In those situations, I’ve often been panicked, frantic, and overwhelmed. Sure, I would get always things done, but not without high levels of anxiety. The art of staying calm in stressful situations was never my forte and frankly, it still isn’t. However, I can in fact say that I’ve come a long way from how much my past self was prone to meltdowns. That’s because I realized that if I…