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Bless Your Holiday Stress, Revisited 2022
Here it comes again – the season of giving AND receiving. You know how you’ll be “receiving” some family and friend obligations you never receive except during this season? Once you CHOOSE to receive, you now get to choose your attitude and behavior. I always say, “Bless your stress.” I even wrote a book about…
Read MoreThe Case for the Verbal Colon
I love the colon. Not just the punctuation mark, although I’m a big fan. I encourage you to speak using the colon. It says, “Listen up; I’m about to say something important.” Colon. Pause. Tell ‘em what you’re gonna tell ‘em. That’s the colon. Then, tell ‘em. Then, tell ‘em what you told ‘em. When…
Read MoreKnow When to Hold ‘Em
These last two years seemed all about the choices we constantly were making, even when it didn’t feel like choosing. And now we have to deal with those. The famous song about choosing I’ve been hearing in my head was written by a 23-year old unknown composer. Made famous by Kenny Rogers. The Gambler. It’s…
Read MoreBless Your Holiday Stress, Revisited
Here it comes again –the season of giving AND receiving. You know how you’ll be “receiving” some family and friend obligations you never receive except during this season? Once you CHOOSE to receive, you now get to choose your attitude and behavior. In my book, Bless Your Stress: It Means You’re Still Alive! I define “bless”: to redirect the…
Read MoreBless Your Holiday Stress: Part Two
We are in the middle of it: the season of giving AND receiving. You know how you’ll be “receiving” some family and friend obligations you never receive except during this time of the year? Once you CHOOSE to receive, you now get to choose your attitude and behavior. Last month, I shared two tips on…
Read MoreBless Your Holiday Stress: It Means You're Still Alive!
Here it comes again –the season of giving AND receiving. You know how you’ll be “receiving” some family and friend obligations you never receive except during the two months ahead? Once you CHOOSE to receive, you now get to choose your attitude and behavior. In my book, Bless Your Stress: It Means You’re Still Alive!…
Read More5 Tips for Handling Holiday Stress – #5
Practice the fine art of patience Practice “Wait Lifting.” This is the ability to wait and have patience in today’s 24/7, frenetic “now” culture. Patience is how you handle the wait of the world. By starting with light waits – not getting frustrated when the computer doesn’t boot up fast enough for you, or the…
Read More5 Tips for Handling Holiday Stress – #4
4. Make full use of your “Internal Whistle” This means what it means in football. To stop the action, the whistle blows. We need to take a deep breath and take stock before letting a stress trigger or a whiney nephew make you go nuts and say something you’ll regret. And before you scream at…
Read More5 Tips for Handling Holiday Stress – #3
3. Check your mental baggage We all have memories from past holidays. A lot of us haul around a hefty load of stress connected to the holidays of the past. According to Mental Health America “memories” account for close to 50% of all the sources of holiday stress. The problem is we don’t realize it.…
Read More5 Tips for Handling Holiday Stress – #2
2. Tap into your “personal control panel.” This controls what happens in your mind. Remember to “Play,” but skip the “Fast Forward,” because, as Gandhi famously said, “There is more to life than increasing its speed.” Also, “Fast Forward” can lead to “self-fulfilling prophecy” scenarios in your head like, “Oh I know what’s going to happen:…
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