Productive people have a different relationship with stress. Now everybody has stress in life productive. People look at stress in two forms. One is good stress, you've given yourself a goal, you got to work towards it, you're going to have to really have tremendous focus, apply your energy, and you can make it work. So you feel this pressure you feel this stress to finish that book, that product that app that new service. But it works for you.

It is a motivator. There's also bad stress. If you find yourself in, have a commute that lasts say three hours a day, even though you're 25 miles away. That can create stress for many people. And if you find it's just so disagreeable, a productive person may say, let me sell the big house in the suburbs and move to an apartment in the city. That will be ultimately much much less stressful.

So productive people don't just say, well that's life. That's the way it is. They don't, as I mentioned to you before, look at themselves as passive pawns to the universe and just subject to fate. They take it upon themselves to control their own destiny. So if you have a three hour commute or for that matter, a 50 minute commute, and you just find it too stressful that to the first 10 minutes, then do what it takes, move, or work from home or get a different job. Life is too short, to have certain types of types of stress that will make you utterly miserable.