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Modern life is stressful. In small quantities, stress is good -- it can motivate us and help us be more productive.

Persistent and unrelenting stress often leads to anxiety and an unhealthy lifestyle.

Anxiety is perhaps one of the most common emotions experienced when a person is stressed.

Research shows that anxiety can make you sleep fewer hours, get sick more often, remember less, become more prone to long-term disease and—as if you needed reminding—eat more. No wonder up to 90 percent of doctor visits are for stress-related complaints.  Anxiety is a form of stress that we all want to avoid.

The lives of the majority of female entrepreneurs today are out of balance. And this imbalance is a reasonable source of stress. And stress feeds anxiety. And anxiety feeds stress.

Let's look at an example of how stress overload and lifestyle factors can contribute to anxiety.

You are entrepreneur and you work 70 hours a week for several years. This puts excessive stress on your body. To make matters worse, you are so busy working that you only manages to get five or six hours of sleep a night, you do not exercise regularly, and you eat mainly fast food. You cant even remember the last time you took time out for yourself.

Sounds familiar?

Your lifestyle creates stress in your life and produces a negative snowball effect.

Over time your body starts perceiving these constant stressors as a threat to your survival. Your body eventually gets "burned out" from repeated unnecessary stress reactions. It is on a constant state of alert - contributing to the physical and mental symptoms of anxiety.

Can You change it?: Yes.

You have the power to reduce or eliminate many of the stressors in your life.

How ?

Take Action:

First step - setting up the basics. Integrating healthy lifestyle habits into your busy life - by making choices that promote calmness, self-care, and a balanced lifestyle:

- Sleep eight hours a night instead of six (You could find useful to support healthy sleep patterns with soothing relaxing music and natural remedies ).

- Eat well-balanced, healthy meals.

- Work 40-50 hours a week instead of 70.

- Learn to view stressors in a less anxious way so your body does not overreact to stressors when they occur.

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