Handling Stress

Stress affects the mind, body, and behavior in many ways, stress grinds away at your mental health, causing emotional damage in addition to physical ailments. Long-term stress can even rewire the brain, leaving you more vulnerable to everyday pressures and less able to cope. Over time, stress can lead to mental health problems. How to you know when you are reaching the point of being completely over stressed? Below I have included some of the signs and behaviors issue that you may begin to experience.
· Memory problems, Poor judgment, Moodiness, Short temper
· Depression or general unhappiness, Headaches or backaches, Chest pain, rapid heartbeat.
· Sleeping too much or too little, Over reacting to unexpected problems.
These are just a small amount of symptoms that are associated with stress. Taking charge of stress.
· Learn how to say "no" – Know your limits and stick to them. Whether in your personal or professional life, refuse to accept added responsibilities when you’re close to reaching them. Taking on more than you can handle is a surefire recipe for stress.
· Avoid people who stress you out – If someone consistently causes stress in your life and you can’t turn the relationship around, limit the amount of time you spend with that person or end the relationship entirely.
· Take control of your environment – If the evening news makes you anxious, turn the TV off. If traffic’s got you tense, take a longer but less-traveled route. If going to the market is an unpleasant chore, do your grocery shopping online.
· Avoid hot-button topics – If you get upset over religion or politics, cross them off your conversation list. If you repeatedly argue about the same subject with the same people, stop bringing it up or excuse yourself when it’s the topic of discussion.
· Pare down your to-do list – Analyze your schedule, responsibilities, and daily tasks. If you’ve got too much on your plate, distinguish between the "should" and the "must." Drop tasks that aren’t truly necessary to the bottom of the list or eliminate them entirely.

Don’t Be a Failure

Have you fail at anything lately? If you answer no, you may assume that to be a good thing. You would not be alone in assuming to not fail always mean good. As children we are taught that to fail is one of the worse things that can be experience through out our lives.
But my belief is that had we been taught that to live a successful fulfilling life there will be times that we should expect and except some failures. My reason behind this statement is that if you are not willing to take a chance because you are scare that you will fail, that is the biggest failure that anyone could experience.
Would you believe that there are individuals who are in the world right now that have some of the most amazing talents that will go to waste because they are scare of failure? This is because they are not willing to take a chance and that is failure in itself. Don’t let the ideal of failure keep you from moving forward, to fail in some things do not make you a failure, but to not be willing to take chances does.