How NOT to cope with CHANGE and reduce your STRESS levels: 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”