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While it sounds silly, especially since I have a variety of construction skills, I lay awake some nights\u00a0stressing about<\/a>\u00a0our stairs. We had gotten quotes for replacing the carpet on our stairs with white oak, but the average estimate, not including materials, was $10,000 per flight.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Three flights of stairs, at $10K per? Sounded like another job for me \u2014 except I had never remodeled stairs, and everyone I knew, including contractor friends, said I shouldn\u2019t try.<\/p>\n What really\u00a0stressed me out<\/a>\u00a0was the fact I didn\u2019t know what I didn\u2019t know. It\u2019s one thing to think you know how to do something and worry about whether you can actually pull it off; it\u2019s even more stressful to know there are things you don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n So I stressed about it while we waited for the wood to arrive, and acclimate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Sound silly? On second thought, not really. Regardless of the worthiness of the cause, if you feel stressed, you feel stressed \u2014 and studies show four in five people\u00a0experience stress at work<\/a>.<\/p>\n