Those who live in cities around the world are likely going to have similar experiences about living and the associated challenges regardless of their location on the globe. Most of these challenges revolve around stress which studies have shown is a part of living. Regardless of what you do and your profession and place stress is not avoidable but could be minimized. Those who see stress as an enemy will probably live an irritable life which is quite unnecessary.

不管你生活在世界上哪一個城市,你都很可能會遇到類似的生活經歷和各種各樣的挑戰．研究證明，大部分這些來自各種壓力的挑戰已經成為人們生活的一部分，無論你干什么，從事何種職業，身處何方，你都無法避免各種壓力，但你卻能最大限度的減少壓力．因此人們大可不必將壓力視為敵人從而使生活煩躁不安．

How then do we cope with stress? I am going to give you tips that have helped and are still helping me in coping with life in the city of Lagos Nigeria, the most populous African city, where orientation of people is quite different in many ways about stress and living with others.

那么我們應該如何應對壓力呢？讓我來告訴你一些小竅門，正是這些小竅門讓我在尼日利亞的拉哥斯那樣一個人口稠密，人們目標迥異的城市得以應付生活中的各種壓力，處理各種人際關系．

1. Wrong views on stress

1 正確地認識壓力

Get the right meanings and impression on stress. Those who misconstrued some daily activities or physical exercises as stress will likely be over burdened by what stress is not. You could read up some literatures, journals, or visit some websites and publications like this website to get to know more on stress. I believe when you can relate your activities and place them in right perspectives on what stress is then you could avoid being overwhelmed by some wrong thoughts about it.

我們對壓力要有正確的認識,那些錯誤的把根本算不上壓力的日常活動和身體鍛煉看做是壓力的人就會覺得負擔過重,你可以通過讀一些文學作品,雜志或者訪問一些網頁或類似的刊物來更多的了解壓力.我相信如果你能正確的認識你所從事的活動,并且能夠以正確的眼光來看待什么是壓力,你就不會被那些實際并不存在的所謂壓力所折服.

2. Do not make stress an issue

2 不要過分擔心壓力

Those who will readily be devastated by stress are those who see it as an issue. It is better to ride on the wave of stress rather than be consumed and overtaken by it. So do not see stress as a problem but as a challenge of living that can be handled and live with, with few consequences.

被壓力所催垮的往往是那些過分擔心壓力的人.我們應該把壓力看作是可以應對的生活中的一些無法避免的挑戰,它們并不會帶來多么嚴重的后果,因為積極面對壓力總比被它壓倒好.

3. Schedule your activities right

3 合理安排好你的活動

It may sounds strange to be advised on scheduling your activities which you have been doing for many years. If you have been bothered by stress then I think it is advisable to reappraise your activities in the light of this understanding in order to identify some probable flaws that may hitherto be hidden. It could be revealing. Do not therefore live on assumption but know that the way you schedule your activities can out blow the impact of stress on you. For instance schedule only the number of activities you could take per day. Do not over estimate your abilities but take only the number of activities you think you could successfully carry out in a day. An uncompleted task could leave you spent.

有人建議你合理安排好你的活動,聽起來也許覺得很奇怪,因為幾年來你一直都在安排.我覺得如果你一直被壓力所困擾的話,從這個角度出發重新安排你的活動是一種明智的做法.這樣一來可以發現一些迄今為止仍然隱藏在你計劃中不足.因此不要生活在假想中,你必須明確,你的安排可能會消除你的壓力.比如說,擬定好你一天能完成的事情的數量,不要高估你的能力,只要列出你能在一天能成功完成的即可.因為沒完成的任務會讓你覺得筋疲力盡.