Is Stress Making You Look & Feel Old?

Are you swamped with stress? Does corporate management keep raising the amount you need to sell each year? Is there not enough money at the end of the month? Are you worried about your children's university tuition? Has your belt gotten tighter or your waist line expanded? Do you look in the mirror and wonder when you started looking old and tired.

Stress is part of life. It can you help you reach your goals or make you sick when it overwhelms you. Researchers discovered that it all depends on how satisfied you are. You may be in stressful situations but when you derive a lot of satisfaction from them you don't age as quickly. It is when you are in stressful situations and you are not satisfied then you begin to look and feel old. Here is an example.

Fred, age 46, decided to resign from his "government job to work with a group of missionaries helping to feed starving children in Africa. He said that the transition was bound to be very stressful but that short of a heart attack or serious illness, it would be "stress well spent."¹ Six months later he was back in North America and tested younger than before he left! Why? He was doing something that he loved and using stress well.

Not everyone can leave their home, children and responsibilities to help starving children in Africa. The question is, "What 2 small steps can you take starting today that will help you manage your stress energy?"

Here are a few tips:

1. Recognize some of the signs and symptoms of stress.

• Are you always tired?
• Do you sleep poorly at night?
• Do you have difficulty concentrating
• Do you have poor habits with personal care?
• Others?

2. Ask yourself, "What will motivate me to make a change in my current situation? Hint: Pain and discomfort is a strong motivator. Be aware that changing habits is not easy. However, it is not impossible. Begin with the next step.

3. Start with drawing a self-portrait of what a healthy you looks like. This is different for each person. You are not aiming for perfection. You are drawing you being very satisfied with your life.

4. Meditate on and visualize your healthy self-portrait everyday.

5. Affirm positive statements throughout the day. For example: If you are trying to lose weight; state, "I am lean and sexy."

6. Journal your progress. Solicit the support of two or more like-minded people to help you stay motivated and accountable.

7. Savor your successes. Share and celebrate them.

The goal is to live life filled with so many satisfiers that you get a high rate of return managing stress!

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Abraham Hicks - INSTANT ENERGY SHIFT! This is BIG!

When Life Hits You Between The Eyes And You Are Better For It

We all go through things: Bad things, good things, and in the middle things. But, however good or bad we have it, we want it better and not worse. Human nature is a funny thing, but if it is not convenient and "perfect", we get angry usually unless we develop patience, work ethic and understanding that it will not always go "smoothly". I remember my Dad, and that one "negative" trait he had that my Mother genuinely "hated". He was insufferably patient and acted with this fact of life with a resignation and understanding so "amazing" that it seemed natural and not developed. I have the same "problem".

The way I look at things is this: We are as satisfied, understanding and happy as we make up our minds and spiritual beings to be. It does not matter where I am, how it is going or "why it screws up" or "messes up". I am patient. Sure, I have the same feelings as everyone else, but I just deal with them differently in an insufferable way instead of getting angry or letting them get the best of me. Even my therapist says under her breath sometimes: "Does this guy ever lose his cool in a genuine way?" Well, I can answer that here, I do not. What is the point of "losing cool", "going banana crazed" or imploding or exploding with anger. It genuinely solves nothing.

Abraham Lincoln, Henry Ford and Marshall Field were amateurs compared to me when it comes to being insufferable in my opinion. You can turn your back on me and I will not care about attention or fear being left alone. If something does not go smoothly, "Oh well, just another way it did not succeed. I will do something else." Note, I did not say the word "try". Weak people try, strong people will do and do what they need and want to do ultimately.

Another thing, most women do not "like" me because of the facts I have just mentioned about myself, and I genuinely do not care. I am a results oriented man who does not care what anyone thinks. I just care what I want done genuinely, that is it. Call me "Jute Mill Man", or "Mister Chain Gang Worker" or whatever, but I am patient with everything including the public transit buses around where I live. You may not like the realities and truths I have to say, but I like them, that is what counts. If you like them, fine, if you do not, fine. I am saying what I am in this article.

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Knowledge Is NOT Power

We always hear the phrase knowledge is power, and yes in some ways it is true. However I believe that knowledge is potential power. A person can be very knowledgeable in many areas but it is what he does with this knowledge that matters. What is the use of knowledge if it stays trapped in someone's mind?

First let us take a look at what Knowledge means; according to Wikipedia, it is a familiarity, awareness or understanding of someone or something, such as facts, information, description, or skills which is acquired through experience or education by perceiving, discovering or learning.

To let this knowledge come full circle and really be powerful and that is when you do something with this knowledge. Helping others, teaching others, here lays the true value in making knowledge powerful.

One should always aspire to seek knowledge and self-development, keep evolving benefiting oneself and others. The majority of us know what needs to be done to be healthy, happy and more satisfied in our lives, yet we do little to accomplish these things; as usual, it requires a lot of hard work, discipline and perseverance to reach the things we aim for. It takes strength and a lot of faith to do the things that one is supposed to do, not just feels like doing. Instead of spending endless hours indulging oneself in meaningless activities and actually getting up and doing what counts is not always appealing. I am not implying that one does not take a break every once in a while and relax and enjoy doing nothing, but that should not be the norm, but more like a reward after tasks are completed and goals reached.

We always talk about "the day" when our life will magically fall into place and we will find happiness then, the thing is the path we are walking and the journey to getting to where we want should be part of the happiness and satisfaction, the journey is every bit as important to where we are getting. Dreaming alone of that magical happy time and place, will only be that, a dream... unless one makes use of the path being walked on and learn from all experiences along the way whether good or bad, for it will make reaching the end goal so much sweeter and worth it.

So next time you learn something new, and realize of the knowledge you hold, keep in mind it will only truly be valuable with what you do with it. Make a difference, make knowledge become powerful with your actions.

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