Most people think about stress as a tensing up of the muscles and mounting of frustration. Such as the picture in your mind that you visualize when someone says, “I’m stressed out” or “You are stressing me out.” Did you know that you could be in a fine mood and still be stressed out? I didn’t until recently and apparently many other entrepreneurs may be suffering from stress without knowing it.

You see, whether your mind or your body is under stress your adrenal glands kick in to help you handle the negative effects of stress. They are responsible for fighting off the negative effects of every kind of emotional, physical and mental stress. Some of the symptoms that your adrenal glands are functioning insufficiently are:

• Fatigue
• Allergic Hypersensitivities
• Muscular Weakness
• Hypotension
• Low Blood Sugar
• Food Cravings (salt and sweets)

According to some recent data, millions of people suffer from one or a combination of adrenal exhaustion due to some mixture of severe stress and unbalanced dietary habits. You can actually eat quite well and still suffer ill side effects from stress. If you are eating the daily recommended doses of your fruits, vegetables, vitamins, minerals, etc., you may still be under nourished. Those doses are based on normal circumstances. Your severe stress is not a normal circumstance, hence your adrenal glands require more tools to help them repair your body back to a homeostasis.

I am a rather positive person who does not let the day to day grind of business get me down. I am an entrepreneur. I love the business aspect of things. It makes me happy when I am involved in sales, marketing, networking and deal making. Setting goals, achieving various milestones and enacting plans are part of my everyday routine. It keeps me competitive and motivated to always try to out do myself. To strive and constantly try to achieve more. I suspect that many of you entrepreneurs are the same way. It is this type of behavior that can cause you mental and physical stress. If you constantly push and push and never take time to relax at all, you are stressing your body and your mind past the point where they are supposed to operate on a continual basis. It is similar to running a car at full throttle all of the time. It can be done. And on a well built car, you may be able to do it for a while. But, you are prematurely wearing out your engine, transmission and other parts of your car.

Did you know that getting insufficient sleep is worse for your body than smoking cigarettes? So, going all of the time at full speed without a proper diet and inadequate sleep means that you are killing yourself. Slow down, eat right and get appropriate amounts of rest and relaxation. I am not the poster child to be the example for this. But, I am trying and I implore you that you do the same. Live a healthier life and live a longer life.