"Me, I'm efficient. Very efficient." PSC 13: Managing your everyday stress
"Me, I'm efficient. Very efficient."
That's what a client told me, all smiles, when I talked to him about the importance of taking breaks between meetings.
"I don't need a quarter of an hour. In 5 seconds, I move from one subject to the next. I know, I decide, I lead. All day long."
I said nothing. But I thought of PSC 13, managing your everyday stress.
This competency has nothing to do with fragility or a lack of efficiency. It's a competency of endurance. A tool for sustainable leadership.
Managing your everyday stress means:
• Learning to reduce the pressure before it becomes chronic
• Avoiding the pressure-cooker effect: the more you compress, the more you risk exploding… or imploding
• Knowing how to anticipate, organise, and create breathing spaces
• Maintaining your inner balance even when the outside world speeds up
When you manage your stress, you don't wait until you're at breaking point to act. You create micro-rituals to keep a clear head, make better decisions, stay calm even when things lurch.
And above all: you stop confusing tension with performance. Because no, being tense doesn't make you useful.
🎯 Today's micro-action: Do as the pros do, take a half-time It's as if all the footballers stayed on the pitch without ever taking a break. Even the best need recovery.
- Between two meetings:
- Look at your diary for the next 14 days (or the first 14 days of the new term):
It isn't a luxury. It's professional life hygiene.
PSC 13, managing your stress, means understanding that stress is part of life… but that the way you live it can change everything.
And tomorrow, we'll look together at how to face adversity without tipping over.
Krumma
PS: Book a FLASH coaching session to prepare for the new term, for you and your teams.
