Lower your stress ..

One of the best ways to be able to slow down and lower your stress is to save yourself trouble, especially the kind that others so often cause you. And the best way to save yourself from that kind of trouble is to avoid causing trouble to others first. Really. You may want to believe that other people are natural a**holes (some, sadly, are), but most are behaving that way because they think they have to deal with an a**hole . . . you!

(from Slow Leadership)