A Little of Everything

Global recession. It’s eating into everyone’s life.

While many of us already have a plateful of daily issues and worries and financial concerns to deal with, the current bad economic situations are making our lives more difficult and stressful.

While we generally think that a little stress in life is actually good, because it could push you to function at your best. However, if you are overstressed, the mental burden could take a toll on your overall well being - both mind and body. Therefore it is important to manage stress to prevent depression or anxiety.

Below are some helpful tips on managing stress.

1. Write down a to-do list

Having a things-to-do-list will help you to manage more easily errands that are all crumpled up in your head. Write down your tasks, put a specific time to do them. Once you accomplished them, cross them out from the list. You will feel more efficient and are more relaxed when handling other tasks at hand.

2. Do things one at a time

Focus and put all your attention specifically on one task at one time. It won’t help you or make you feel good if you go panicky about the other undone or to-do tasks. Thinking about them only adds unnecessary stress and distracts your mind, which could hamper your progress in attempting the present tasks.

3. Take it slow

Try not to expend too much energy on activities that are not in your priority list. Save those energy for more important tasks. If things can wait, let it wait, at least for now.

4. Delegate the tasks

You need not do everything all at once, and you need not do everything on your own. Get help - free or paid. If you feel you are overwhelmed with tasks at hand, then hire someone to mow the lawn or get a sitter for your children. This will remove a heavy load of unnecessary worry and anxiety off you.

5. Reward yourself

It is important that YOU acknowledge yourself for your own accomplishment, and that you deserve a reward (e.g. a nice meal on the weekend) for being efficient. This will help reduce stress and even make you happier in doing the next task.

6. Give yourself a break

Take short breaks during work helps to refresh and recharge yourself. It will make you more productive. Have a cup of coffee, take a quick brisk walk, or do anything to put your mind off work for a while. Actually you can still stay in your work and take a break - just sit with your eyes closed as you visualize a peaceful landscape or a serene and calming place you like.

7. Relax and be cool

You will be healthier, happier, and a lot more productive if you can stay relax and cool all the time.

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Wow! It has been 2 months since I last wrote here! Sorry for the long absence.

Life was pretty busy, if not hectic, in the past 2 months with family affairs and writing assignments to take care of. To further spice up an already-buys life, I have embarked on a self-learning journey on internet business, in hopes to build a successful online business of my own in the near future.

So my daily life now practically revolves around my freelance writing tasks, internet business study, and family affairs. I suppose I could start a self improvement plan as well…

All of these, what do you call it? Living life to the fullest? Haha!

Anyway, today I would like to share something about self improvement and success here.

In life we always look for ways to improve ourselves, because it is undeniably THE essential factor if we want to become successful. Agree? Below are some tips for self improvement I came across recently which I think it would be helpful to share them here.

1. Stop thinking and feeling as if you’re a failure, because you’re not. How can others accept you if YOU can’t accept YOU?

2. When you see hunks and models on TV, think more on self improvement, or setting a goal to become healthy and build self confidence, and NOT self pitying. Self acceptance is not just about having nice slender legs, or great abs. Concentrate on inner beauty.

3. When people feel so down and low about themselves, help them move up. Don’t go down with them. They’ll pull you down further and both of you will end up feeling inferior.

4. The world is a large room for lessons, not mistakes. Don’t feel stupid and doomed forever just because you flopped your science test. There’s always a next time. Make rooms for self improvement.

5. Take things one at a time. You don’t expect black sheep’s to turn goody in just a snap of a finger. Self improvement is a one day at a time process.

6. Self improvement leads to inner stability, personality development and eventually …. SUCCESS. It comes from self confidence, self appreciation and self esteem.

7. Set meaningful and achievable goals. Self improvement doesn’t mean turning yourself to be the exact replica of Angelina Jolie or Ralph Fiennes. It hopes and aims to result to an improved and better YOU.

8. Little things mean BIG to other people. Sometimes, we don’t realize that the little things that we do like a pat on the back, saying “hi” or “hello”, greeting someone “good day” or telling Mr. Johnson something like “hey, I love your tie!” are simple things that mean so much to other people. When we appreciate beautiful things around us and other people, we also become beautiful to them.

9. When you’re willing to accept change and go through the process of self improvement, it doesn’t mean that everyone else is. The world is a place where people of different values and attitude hang out. Sometimes, even if you think you and your best friend always like to do the same thing together at the same time, she would most likely decline an invitation for self improvement.

10. We should always remember that there’s no such thing as ‘over night success’. A very nice quote says that “When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.” We are all here to learn our lessons. Our parents, school teachers, friends, colleagues, office mates, neighbors… they are our teachers. When we open our doors for self improvement, we increase our chances to head to the road of success.

Hope the above tips for self improvement will help you in one way or another…

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