> Never accept that you are too stressed to deal with your stress What are you supposed to do then? How do you "not accept"? > stop and recover that control.

> Never accept that you are too stressed to deal with your stress What are you supposed to do then? How do you "not accept"? > stop and recover that control. Let's say there's a severe security issue in the software you've shipped. The production servers are down, at the same time, bad luck. And you've promised to ... something, on Monday. And dinner with your girl/boyfriend in the evening, or you've promised the kids [...]. (Or replace the above, with something more applicable in your case?) What would you do? One thing could be to power off all you servers and software (to temporarily stop the security problem), and take a few days off, email auto responder. But is that going to cause less stress or more