There are some sure fire ways to reduce stress: sleep more, laugh more, eat better, exercise often.
But for some leaders, it takes week-long vacations every few months or even sticking their bare feet in the soil to reconnect.
For others, a morning ritual of doodling on a napkin does the trick.
Whatever their quirky routine, the goal is the same: stop stressing out.
Bill Clinton takes private mediation lessons with a monk.
After Bill Clinton underwent a quadruple heart bypass surgery in 2004, he has taken extra precautions for his health by becoming a vegan.
Although it's been years since Clinton has dealt with being President, he still travels often as an ambassador for the U.S.
To keep his mental and physical stress in check, Clinton takes private classes with a Buddhist monk in order to learn the art of meditation, which he says helps him stay focused and calm.
Robert Freedman, former CEO of ORC Worldwide, draws on napkins.
When Freedman was CEO of ORC Worldwide, now renamed as Mercer, he drew about 300 sketches on paper napkins each morning with his coffee. He told us the napkins were in fun shapes and they inspired him to circle the shapes and doodle with his flare pen.
The ritual gave him a chance to clear his head and do something creative before the day began.
After he retired he self-published the drawings in a book titled, "Morning Coffee: Drips and Drabs Musings from a Manger."
Patrice Tanaka, CEO of Patrice Tanaka & Company, manages her stress by ballroom dancing.
Tanaka's business, Patrice Tanaka and Company, was suffering post-9/11 and she fell into a depression from all of the stress. She came out of it and still manages her stress today by ballroom dancing.
Dancing was so effective for Tanaka that she wrote a book about it called “Becoming Ginger Rogers.” The book talks about re-energizing and re-engaging yourself when life has taken a toll on you.
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