Coping with Stress

You just can’t say enough about laughing as a method of stress relief. Not only does laughing relax your mind, it invigorates your body.

If you deny your sense of humor because you are worried about everything, you deny life. If you can just see the humor in your own situation, you can laugh at yourself and your fears. Besides, if you laugh at yourself first, you beat your enemies to the punch.

So read this joke. Motorcycle and Squirrel Then share the joke, share the laughter.

I am in the process of upgrading my blog to the newer version and so well I am not doing (as my daughter would say)

until next time - hopefully I won’t lose everything on this blog.
Sharon
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We all know that procrastination leads to stress. You may be a person that gets a rush from waiting to the last moment to finish an important task, but then again you may the person who ends up telling lies about why you are late.

Telling that little lie about why you didn’t get “it” done may seem like such a small thing. You may exaggerate your busy multi-tasking life. You may even believe it yourself.

But, that little lie just increased your stress way out of proportion to the lie. Now you have to make that lie into a truth. And you still have to complete the task.

First, “fess up” to the lie. You may be embarrassed but I’m willing to bet most of the people who know you, know you procrastinate. If the source of your procrastination was that you did not know how to do the task, say that too. Get the help you need.

We all multi-task at times. We all know that each of those tasks suffers because of all the other tasks. You might say that the multi-tasker is the opposite of the perfectionist.

The perfectionist may end up as a procrastinator because it is just never good enough. The multi-tasker just can’t get it all done completely.

Mothers are famous multi-taskers. It may seem to be the only way to get it all done, but consider the cost to mind and body.

Completing more than one task at the same time can put a strain on your brain and your physical body. When we feel rushed, we breathe quickly and usually with shallow breaths that rob us of needed oxygen.

So, slow down, delegate tasks when possible and breathe deeply and slowly.

Oh, and forget the little white lies, unless you are commenting on your mother-in-law’s new dress.

until next time - smile and take a long slow deep breath
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