Stress Quotes

15 Steps to Lower Stress: 1. Invest 30 minutes in vigorous exercise 3 to 5 times a week 2. Learn relaxation techniques 3. Cut down on caffeine 4. Eat right 5. Meditate 6. Develop better time management habits 7. Play 8. Get plenty of sleep 9. Smile more. Laugh. Use humor to lighten your emotional load. 10. Count your blessings – daily 11. Say nice things when you talk to yourself 12. Simplify 13. Set personal goals. Develop a sense of purpose. 14. Forgive 15. Practice optimism and positive expectancy

15 Steps to Raise Stress: 1. Expect someone else to reduce your stress 2. Decide not to change 3. Act like a victim 4. Try to play a new game using the old rules 5. Try to provide a totally stress-free life environment 6. Try to control the uncontrollable 7. Choose your own pace of change 8. Fail to abandon the expendable 9. Slow down 10. Be afraid of the future 11. Pick the wrong battles 12. Try to psychologically unplug from disagreeable situations 13. Avoid anything new 14. Work on eliminating uncertainty and instability 15. Assume it is the responsibility of others to keep you “comfortable”

50-70 % of medical complaints contain some element of stress. Top 3 drugs: Valium; Tagament (ulcers); Interall (heart control) You can’t function under a heavy load all the time. Imagine making a tight fist and holding it for 20 years! Just as you rotate tires so that they wear evenly, so you need to rotate or balance your activities in life.

When bad things happen to you, use the Ready, SET, Go approach: S – See it as temporary (will this be a big deal 10 years from now?) E – Externalize (step back and see the big picture; don’t take it personally) T – Take action (make plan/formula for correction, focus on things you can control) This will generate a positive frame of mind that is future oriented.

(Other possible contents for your “toy box”: clown nose (try putting on one of these the next time someone yells at you – the effect may turn out to be more of an adjustment for the other party than for you!); bubble blower; silly putty; juggling balls; special momentos from past vacations (a piece of shell that you picked up on that beach in the Caribbean, a small rock from that hike in the Grand Canyon (oops – probably a national park violation!), that piece of volcanic rock from the big island of Hawaii, etc.); a transformer (no, not something that connects to a model railroad – ask your kid.)

I have a toy box with an assortment of energy toys in my office – a bola paddle (paddle with ball on a rubber string), a dart board, sunglasses with pop-out eyes, and a kazoo. Whenever I finish with a frustrating meeting or situation, I close my door and get out that paddle to relieve stress and recover my energy.

TRY THIS STRATEGY TO OVERCOME BURNOUT: ?? Admit to yourse1f that you are burning out, and that it is a result of the way you invest your energy. Don?? blame it on anything or anyone else. ?? Don?? give up and stop investing energy. Instead change how and where you invest it. ?? Decide what you want ??then invest your energy accordingly. ?? Tell someone how you??e going to change the way you??e investing your energy and make sure that person will hold you accountable to your commitment. ?? If you know certain behaviors leave you drained of energy, align your choices and behaviors with your commitment. Limit your contact, or at least your investment, in people or activities that are nothing more than a drain.

When my work pile is getting deeper that I can handle or want to handle, I’ll let myself get lost in my picture of West Texas bluebonnets on the wall.

When facing a stressful situation, the amount of stress you will feel is inversely proportional to the amount of information you can get.

What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in an awful hurry.

The other day I got out my can-opener and was opening a can of worms when I thought, “What am I doing?!”

Remember: “STRESSED” spelled backwards is ” DESSERTS “!!

Pain is God’s megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.

No Pressure ….. No Diamond No Irritation …. No Pearl No Struggle …. No Butterfly No Endurance …. No Success

Make your vocation your vacation.

It’s always easier to ride the horse in the direction that it’s going.

In one of our concert pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 pounds on an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.

He who laughs, lasts.

Don’t count on anybody else coming along to relieve your stress. Put yourself in charge of managing the pressure. You are probably the only one who will, or even can, do much to lighten your psychological load.

Death is nature’s way of saying “Slow down!”

Character, like sweet herbs, should give off its finest fragrance when pressed.

A diamond is a chunk of coal that made good under pressure.

A butterfly must struggle to break out of its cocoon. But the struggle to emerge from the cocoon forces the fluid from the butterfly’s body into its wings – a necessary process for enabling it to fly.