Managing Stress and Time

Controlling stress and time is a worthwhile accomplishment that all must control in order to reach victory. Each day we awake, we begin by emphasizing our need to meet deadlines, demands grab our attention, and we stress over finding the balance to spend with our family, selves and friends. 

To some of us achieving, the correct balance seems practically impossible since there are only 24-hours in a single day and at least of eight of those hours are consumed with sleep. The challenge of managing stress and time creates many obstacles, and for some of the times, we find it hard to maintain the balance we need. 

Stress is a direct result of not handling your passions in accordance to with the many stressors that overwhelm you. The key is finding a solution to get in touch with your emotions. When your emotions are prone to sudden outburst, you often suffer tremendously. Control of our emotions affects how we hear people talk, and how we talk to people. 

This lack of emotional control is called irrational behaviour since your mind is not being used fully. Our emotions are a strong force and we need to take control of them to get on with our lives. If we have too many negative emotions, it affects our ability to manage time since negative emotions put fear and doubt into our heads.

You are responsible for all of your decisions and behaviours, and that stress can be the product of irrational thinking. By learning how to think rationally as well as holding a positive outlook on life, it is possible to control stress and manage your time. 

To learn to think rationally and be positive, we must practice. How do you practice? One way is to take a few minutes per day to tell have some positive self-talk. Tell yourself that you are responsible and that you have full control of your mind and the decisions you make. Tell yourself that you have control of your behaviour and no one else can control you.  Over time you will soon realize that you are making wiser decisions. You are learning that you can trust self and accept that we all make mistakes.

We all make mistakes they are common, but the key to success is learning from your mistakes. If you are stressed as a consequence of too much happening in your workplace, your home, and your world, then you may need to find time and space for yourself. This means that your time management will need thoughtful planning so you can build in time for yourself. In that time you can work on how to manage the stress in your life. 

Under stress, many put off dealing with their responsibilities. When this is done, it actually creates more problems. When you create your plan for dealing with all of the stressors in your life it is important that you start to take action as soon as possible. The action you take is the process of making something work. When you are working toward goals, things may not run smoothly because your plan is in place but you will be in a position to deal with any problems as they come up.

Take time out each day to think positive. Negative self-talk is harmful and you should make sure you eliminate it from use. Remember, risks are fine and taking risks is a part of life. and by controlling your emotions, you can reduce your stress and by controlling your time you can reduce your stress and move toward meeting your goals.

Parting shots

I saw this in the local paper and I thought I would share. For all dog lovers, this is funny.

More fun with English

Oddities of the English Language--thanks to Ernie for these gems.

The longest words containing only one of the six vowels including Y are the words Defenselessness, Respectlessness, close behind are Tennessee.  And subbookkeeper (Some dictionaries consider subbookkeeper to be a word, in which case it's the only word with 4 consecutive doubled letters).

  

Forty is the only number which has its letters in alphabetical order. One in the only number with its letters in reverse alphabetical order

Bookkeeper is the only word that has three consecutive doubled letters.

Despite the assertions of a well-known puzzle, modern English doe not have three common words ending in “gry.” Angry and Hungry are the only ones.

“Ough” can be pronounced in eight different ways. The following sentence contains them all.

“A rough-coated, dough-faced ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough, coughing and hiccoughing thoughtfully.

Due do and dew seems to screw people over just as bad as they're there and their...

Ten two-letter words in a proper sentence: If it is to be, it is up to me!

There are a number of English words that are pronounced differently when you capitalize them and the term for this is Capitonyms. In English, this means words that when capitalized are pronounced differently than if they are written in small case

Polish: from Poland; written in small case the word becomes polish which means to create a shiny surface by rubbing; a compound used in that process

Reading: a personal or place name; written in small case it is reading which means to read some words

The following poem from Richard Lederer's The Word Circus is an example of the use of capitonyms:

Job's Job

In August, an august patriarch

Was reading an ad in Reading, Mass.

Long-suffering Job secured a job

To polish piles of Polish brass.

Fun with English

Lessons My Grammar Taught Me

·       A dangling participle walks into a bar.

·       Enjoying a cocktail and chatting with the bartender, the evening passes pleasantly.

·       A bar was walked into by the passive voice.

·       Two quotation marks walk into a “bar.”

·       A malapropism walks into a bar, looking for all intensive purposes like a wolf in cheap clothing, muttering epitaphs and casting dispersions on his magnificent other, who takes him for granite.

·       A mixed metaphor walks into a bar, seeing the handwriting on the wall but hoping to nip it in the bud.

·       Three intransitive verbs walk into a bar. They sit. They converse. They depart.

·       A synonym strolls into o tavern.

·       The subjunctive would have walked into a bar, had it only known.

·       A misplaced modifier walks into a bar owned by a man with a glass eye named Ralph.

·       The past, present, and future walked into a bar. It was tense.

·       A verb walks into a bar, sees a beautiful noun, and suggests they conjugate. The noun declines.

·       Hyperbole totally rips into this insane bar and absolutely destroys everything.

Questions My Grammar Asked Me

·       What if there were no hypothetical questions?

·       Is there another word for synonym?

·       Can vegetarians eat animal crackers?

·       How is it possible to have a civil war?

·       If a parsley former is sued, can they garnish his wages?

·       If you were to eat pasta and antipasto at the same time, would you still be hungry?

Thanks to Denis O. Vaughn W. and Soren K for these gems