13 Ways To Minimize Stress.
 1. Know where you are going, what you are meant to be doing, and what you want the future to hold.
2. Know your natural strengths and weaknesses.
3. Admit to yourself when things are getting too much for you, but separate fact from fiction, don't brood, don't feel sorry for yourself.
4. Review your priorities regularly. If you are not succeeding with one approach, don't try harder; think of a better way.5. Accept that you cannot do everything; learn to say NO to irksome tasks that are not essential; try to deter other people from passing their crises on to you.
6. Without being totally inflexible, establish some degree of routine in your working life. Set eating times. Decide your minimum sleep requirements. Plan holidays and days off in advance. Protect this time. If you have to let it go, reschedule it immediately.
7. Arrange at least half-an-hour a day when you can think things over with absolutely no interruptions.
8. Keep your life of priorities firmly in your mind or, preferably, on display where you are working.
9. Don't waste time on low priority tasks when you know you should be making a start on a higher priority task.
10. Try to pace your work, plan ahead and tackle potential problems before they blow up into crises, impossible deadlines, and sheer panic.
11. Learn to lose a few battles without feeling you are losing face.
12. Be tolerant about your own mistakes - will anyone care a hundred days from now. Even 10?
13. Try to have as much fun as possible in your work, and aim to have plenty of laughs (even if they are at your own expense!).
How To Make Opportunities
1. Know where you are going, otherwise you will not be able to tell a worthwhile opportunity from a waste of time.
2. Tell people what you are interested in, enthuse about your aims. Enthusiasm is infectious, and the more people you infect, the more channels of opportunity you will create.
3. Keep your eyes open. Succeeding is a full time job. Your next opportunity is likely to come in some sort of disguise. How will you spot it? Where could it come from? Which group of contacts? Which company? Which ezine?
4. Be flexible on timing. Opportunities don't come at the most convenient times. Don't miss your chance waiting for everything else to be in place. It may be inconvenient to take on extra commitments now but if it is what you have been waiting for, take it, and sort things out afterwards.
5. Expect your share of good fortune. That way you have a better chance of recognizing an opportunity when it presents itself.
6. Don't wait for others.
7. Don't over-analyze. It is easy to miss chances by pondering too long, or spending too much time researching the market. Try a more cavalier approach - but be rational, don't gamble. There is a difference, it's called a calculated risk. These are usually wrong no more than 30% of the time. If you never gamble, you will go back to letting life, your job, your narrow horizons, control you.
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