Too much stress can be caused by many things. Routinely too many demands without enough capacity leads to a loss of margin. Poor alignment between what you are doing and your motives for why. Working in a toxic culture that you have no control to change. However, as this post by Eric Geiger points out, all stress is not bad. This is a great read for all of us:
“Right before Dr. John Townsend walked up to shred a guitar to some old Blink 182 songs with the band he has with his sons, I asked him if he was nervous. In a brief moment he talked to me about leaders and the three different types of stress for leaders we can face.
Before I share his insight, let me set the scene.”