Stress: Don't manage it, cure it!

Everybody complains about stress nowadays. The unlimited techniques offered for "Stress Management" are enough to stress one out! We also try to justify stress by using phrases like "Jobs are much more stressful nowadays", "Life is much more stressful nowadays", "A rapidly changing business environment makes stress inevitable" What is stress really? Are we over-complicating it and making it worse? Is 'managing' it useful in anyway? Are we just scratching the surface instead of trying to cure it? Can we dare to take a closer look at this ugly problem, understand, and hence cure it?

Keeping the customer happy

Most of the times we focus on not keeping the customer unhappy, thinking that we are making the customer happy. The former demands following the same old customer practices without making mistakes - keeping things fine; the latter demands relookng at things which might already be fine, and making them better, inventing new practices, hence making mistakes, managing the change resistance and then relishing the happiness that comes out of the final success

Planning can sometimes be very difficult, but never optional

When things are predictable, planning is easy. When things are unpredictable, or circumstances are not conducive to planning, planning might become very difficult, so diffilcut that plans might have to be revised frequently; it might seem that planning is not possible. 

But we need to remind ourselves that planning is never an option, it has to be done no matter what. It can get difficult sometimes, thats it