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How Is Stress Affecting Your Success, Health, and Happiness?

They say a good scare is worth more than good advice. Pain is one way to get your attention, a crisis is another. To illustrate, here is a short story about Larry King (the radio and TV talk-show host) and the heart attack he suffered:

You have a heart attack, first thing you think is, “I gotta change my life.” You know that saying, “Today is the first day of the rest of your life”? Well, you survive a heart attack and that’s it: the day after really is the first day of the rest of your life. What you don’t know is how long that life’s gonna be. All of a sudden, you gotta deal with the fact that you are going to die one of these days. Death becomes real. And if death is real, then ...

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