Sir Roger has been doing a little scientific reading over the break and noticed something that he thinks is very relevant to all of us and could help everyone do our jobs better and enjoy them more.

Amazingly enough, scientific studies show that many of us experience our highest stress levels immediately before we return to work from the holidays that we’ve taken in order to reduce our stress levels in the first place!

So it’s quite likely that your own are dangerously high right now in anticipation of your imminent return to work and you need to take swift action to lower them.

Here’s a clever little test Sir Roger found that will help you decide what you need to do next:

STRESS TEST

This quick test will accurately deter­mine your stress levels.

Read the fol­low­ing descrip­tion com­pletely before look­ing at the picture.

The pic­ture below was used in a case study on stress lev­els at St. Mary’s Hos­pi­tal. Look at both dol­phins jump­ing out of the water.

The dol­phins are iden­ti­cal. A closely mon­i­tored, sci­en­tific study revealed that, in spite of the fact that the dol­phins are iden­ti­cal, a per­son under stress would find dif­fer­ences between the two dol­phins.
The more dif­fer­ences a per­son finds between the dol­phins, the more stress that per­son is experiencing.

Look at the pho­to­graph, and if you find more than one or two dif­fer­ences, you may want to request additional days off, or at least get a massage.

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