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Taking Stock of What's Happening

Guest post by: Donna Karlin

Article Overview: There's a lot going on these days. People are stressed, no two ways about it. I'm observing a 'tired' group of executives whose staff are looking to them to 'fix' things. Well, no one has a magic wand, or... does everyone have a magic wand?

Taking Stock of What's Happening

There's a lot going on these days. People are stressed, no two ways about it. I'm observing a 'tired' group of executives whose staff are looking to them to 'fix' things. Well, no one has a magic wand, or... does everyone have a magic wand? It's the latter as you are your own magic wand.

It's time to take stock of what's happening that's within your control and perspective and make necessary and wanted changes accordingly.

"Stress is the body and mind's response to any stressful pressure that disrupts the balance in the mind or body. It occurs when our perceptions of events don't meet our expectations and we don't manage our reaction to the disappointment. As a response, stress expresses itself as resistance, tension, strain or frustration, that throws off our physiological and psychological equilibrium, keeping us out-of-sync and stressed-out." - Doc Childre and Howard Martin

What magnifies stress even more is when one dwells upon that which upsets them in the first place, rather than creating a future they want. If you dwell on that which you don't want, you will continue on that downwards spiral.

Sowhat are some key points to that magic wand?

1. Stop doing what you don't want to do. I'm not talking about your job. I'm talking about every day things you got talked into or felt you were obliged to do. Do things because you really, really want to do them. When it comes down to it, if you stopped doing things out of obligation, chances are most people won't even notice anyways. Doing things you don't want to do depletes your energy and when you're stressed you don't have a heck of a lot of extra energy to waste.
2. Guess what I'm about to say! Start doing what you want to do. Fill a part of your days with things you love to do. When you're doing what you're passionate about you'll be energized, optimistic and a downright pleasure to spend time with. Know what that'll do? People will want to spend more time with you and if you're having fun, stress flies out the window.
3. Speaking of which....find someone you want to spend time with and visa versa. That goes for just being, 'playing', talking, mentoring, sharing and brainstorming. That best friend, partner, reality checker...someone who will accept you at your best and worst and visa versa. It's been proven if you don't have that close friend and feel like you're in this life on your own, you'll be wearing the problems of the world on your shoulders. Why in the world would you want to do that?
4. Don't let doubting Thomases talk you out of your dreams and while you're at it, make those dreams really big! It's hard to be stressed when you're working towards your dreams.
5. Need less. I'm not saying want more. That's different. Needing things because you want them is a whole other ball came. Wanting things and being able to have them now and then is a gift. Needing them and being unhappy until you get them will shift the focus away from what you truly have right now...and to appreciate it all.

I'll leave you with this....

"It's not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it." - Hans Selye

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