| January 3, 2006 | Keeping An Open Mind |
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I hope you had (and are still having) a wonderful holiday. It always seems a little hard to believe that another year has gone by. It is generally at the end of the year that we look back to evaluate the blur that was the last 365 days. Most of us have had a combination of good and not so good days. It is, after all, the human condition to have ups and downs. Coping well with the events of one’s life is the real challenge. Stress is a reality for all of us so having and using stress reducing strategies can be very useful. In this issue of the Newsletter I listed 10 stress busting strategies for you to employ in the New Year. Some will fit your style and some won’t but the idea is to use whatever you can to cope with the stress in your life better in 2006 than you did in 2005. In the next article, Commit To Change, I offer a simple technique that can help you to achieve the goals you decide to set for yourself this year. |
10 Stress Busting Strategies
1) Begin to see things for what they are. Many stressed out people think of most things as urgent. Therefore everything is an emergency that needs immediate attention. This tends to make them and the people around them edgy and irritable. Get perspective. |
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Commit To Change
At the end of every year many of us will make a New Year’s resolution to do something different. The end of the old year and the beginning of the new one has always been symbolic. We look ahead to a better time and say to ourselves that we are leaving the old year behind and many of our bad habits along with it. The problem with New Year’s resolutions is that they are often half hearted attempts at change or simply an exercise in wishful thinking. The word resolute means to be firml... |
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