Sometimes we need stress to take action, but we get to teach ourselves some discipline on how to turn stress on and off. Generally speaking, we cannot control all causes of stress, but we should identify the triggers for each episode of stress and design their equivalent for something we can control for two reasons. One, to trigger some stress in moments we are lacking motivation; and two, to turn off the stress we can control in those moments that we are in situations we cannot control and are a source of bad stress.