“If you can’t handle stress, you won’t manage success.”

Nope. I don’t equate being able to handle to stress to always being successful. But success means different things to everyone. I just know stress shut me down this year and I still managed to come out of everything breathing and thriving in my own way. I didn’t try to handle it at all. I simply let it exist because it was that big of a force and honestly I was too small to conquer it. It was sheer luck that success came anyway.

But at work I do handle it because it benefits the overall success of the machine functioning efficiently and I’m very much aware that I have to be the bigger force against the stress others can’t manage properly.