I am a person who used to stress in a big way. I then received or heard a comment from a person that I had recently starting working with who basically stated that he had never met anyone who seemingly stressed as much as I did. Things though had to and were about to change.

I then went about reading lots of books about mind over matter and positive thinking.

I soon learnt that worrying and stressing about a situation does not make it go away or make it any easier. In fact it makes it a whole lot worse. I had to realise that I can do no more than to give one hundred percent to each task I perform. When a negative thought or worry enters your head you need to immediately ignore it and to change your thought processes into thinking about something which makes you happy or smile. You have to treat these demons as your worst enemy and fight them away. Treat it like a war and be determined not to let them win the battle of minds.

I had always been a worrier; this is something that commenced in childhood probably due to the fact that I had a stutter. I did attend stuttering treatment however I only managed to overcome my stuttering problem when I was aged twenty-two after watching a seventy minute self-help therapy DVD which I bought from The How To Stop Stuttering Centre in Birmingham, England.

The next lesson I learnt was that a life spent constantly stressing is a waste of a life and the last piece of advice is to think about other people in the world who are not as fortunate as yourself.

These things have helped to improve my life in a big way; as an example I am now a successful business man selling a upvc front door and I also offer a professional medical negligence claims service.

I hope the above stress-relief tips help other people as much as they have helped me.