Don’t Take it So Personally
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Letting your emotions rule is a sure recipe for increased stress
Why should getting too emotionally involved in what you say or do be a problem? Taking things that people say too personally will cause you stress when others disagree [...]
Enough With The Worrying!
Start taking responsibility for your own problems
Have you noticed the most typical sound in our society? It’s not muzak, or TV commercials, or the latest pop blockbuster. It’s people talking about their problems.
“Oh…my life is so difficult (I’m scared I’m going to lose my job, won’t be able to keep up my mortgage payments, won’t [...]
How busy lives ruin family relationships
When your child says, “I want to tell you something . . . ,” do you have time to listen?
We parents are caught in a bind. Trying to do the best for our children is often difficult and frustrating. We are busy running around on tight schedules. There are people who expect us to be [...]
Why now is the best time for a New Year’s resolution
Spring is the natural time for renewal
New Year’s Day is not the time to start planning for the future. You need time to go into full recovery mode from the ‘Holiday Season’. You’re too worried about all those bills which are coming in as a result of your holiday spending, too tired from trying to [...]
How to make your luck better
Blaming your problems on bad luck blocks the way to finding solutions
One of the habits that is best dropped as soon as you can is blaming your problems on bad luck. Sometimes the chances of life serve us all up some pretty nasty surprises. But attributing such problems to bad luck almost guarantees that you [...]
Creative ways to cope with stress
What to do when things start to get on top of you
Stress is a simple fact of daily living. We all experience stress at times. The questions isn’t how to avoid this happening—that’s impossible—but how to cope when it does.
There are hundreds—possibly thousands—of articles and posts on ideas to deal with stress, so it’s useful [...]
Is it quitting time?
Quitting may take more courage than carrying on
“But you pretend and I pretend
That everything is fine,
And though we should be at an end
It’s so hard admitting when it’s quitting time.”
Song by Mary Chapin Carpenter
One of the greatest skills is to be able to recognize when you’re in the wrong place, or doing the wrong things, [...]
How to deal with periods of peak activity
Sometimes you cannot avoid being stretched more than you would wish
There are bound to be times when everything seems to come due together: when your best attempts to schedule your life and activities break down and you face a crescendo of activity.
How do you cope? Do you allow yourself to become stressed and anxious? Do [...]
Tips to help you calm down in a crisis
Sometimes the only sane thing to do is walk away
When things go wrong and you start to feel overwhelmed, it’s easy to get stuck in the notion that you must somehow fight the problem. Our whole ethos is based on the idea of winning. But the wise person knows his or her limits and stays [...]
How to survive an explosion of tasks
How can you cope with a list of uncompleted tasks that seems to be exploding out of control?
Whether it’s at work or at home, a sudden jump in demands on your time and energy can leave you feeling panicky—about the worst state to be in to deal with the situation without also sending your stress [...]
