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Stress Management
A lecturer, when explaining stress management to an
audience, raised a glass of water and asked,
"how heavy is this glass of water? "
Answers called out ranged from 20g to 500g.
The lecturer replied, "The absolute weight doesn't
matter. It depends on how long you try to hold it.
"If I hold it for a minute, that's not a problem. If
I hold it for an hour, I'll have an ache in my right
arm.
If I hold it for a day, you'll have to call an
ambulance.
"In each case, it's the same weight, but the longer I
hold it, the heavier it becomes. "
He continued, "And that's the way it is with stress
management.
If we carry our burdens all the time, sooner or later
as the burden becomes increasingly heavy,
we won't be able to carry on. "
"As with the glass of water, you have to put it down
for a while and rest before holding it again. When
we're refreshed, we can carry on with the burden. "
"So, before you return home tonight, put the burden of
work down. Don't carry it home. You can pick it up
tomorrow. Whatever burdens you're carrying now, let
them down for a moment if you can. "
"Relax; pick them up later after you've rested.
(Added: Give them to God and leave them with Him! Do not pick them up
again!!--Eydie)
Life is short.
Enjoy it!
And then he shared some ways of dealing with the
burdens of life:
* Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and some
days you're the statue.
* Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case
you have to eat them.
* Always read stuff that will make you look good if
you die in the middle of it.
* Drive carefully. It's not only cars that can be
recalled by their maker.
* If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to
be vague.
*If you lend someone $20 and never see that person
again, it was probably worth it.
* It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply
to serve as a warning to others.
* Never put both feet in your mouth at the same time,
because then you won't have a leg to stand on.
* Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up
and dance.
* Since it's the early worm that gets eaten by the
bird, sleep late.
* The second mouse gets the cheese.
* When everything's coming your way, you're in the
wrong lane.
* Birthdays are good for you. The more you have, the
longer you live.
* You may be only one person in the world, but you may
also be the world to one person.
* Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once.
* We could learn a lot from crayons. Some are sharp,
some are pretty and some are dull. Some have weird
names, and all are different colors, but they all live
in the same box.
" A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the
scenery on a detour.
Have an awesome day and know that someone has thought
about you today.
I thought it was irresistably cute. And funny. And true. I got it from Eydie, one of my friends' (from Owatonna) mothers and was a mentor of mine during Jr. High. Much love, much love.