15 Steps to Raise Stress:
1. Expect someone else to reduce your stress
2. Decide not to change
3. Act like a victim
4. Try to play a new game using the old rules
5. Try to provide a totally stress-free life environment
6. Try to control the uncontrollable
7. Choose your own pace of change
8. Fail to abandon the expendable
9. Slow down
10. Be afraid of the future
11. Pick the wrong battles
12. Try to psychologically unplug from disagreeable situations
13. Avoid anything new
14. Work on eliminating uncertainty and instability
15. Assume it is the responsibility of others to keep you “comfortable”