Those that say you can’t take it with you never saw a car packed for a vacation trip.
— Unknown
I grew up in Chicago. My parents wanted to live in a warm climate – Chicago can be a bit cold, and gray and wet and smoggy. When it’s not cold and gray and wet and smoggy, it’s hot and sunny and humid and smoggy. Both of my parents had grown up in Chicago and they both longed for a cleaner, more hospitable place to live. Since we couldn’t live anywhere else, every summer we took a three week driving vacation to the Left Coast – though back then it was just the west coast.
My parents must have been nuts: three weeks in a car with three little kids. OY! To make sure that we all returned home in one piece and NOT in a casket, Mom made sure that we had lots of toys to entertain us during the 8-10 hour days as we went across Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas. Because she also believed that our education shouldn’t stop during the summer, she also brought library books for us to read at night. After all, everyone knows you get sick if you Continue reading » Scenic Outlook Ahead
I’ve tried yoga but I find stress less boring.
— Anonymous
Have you ever had a meltdown? You know what I mean… extreme stress, the heebie jeebies, sour stomach, wanting to scream and/or beat on someone. Your mind is a jumble of useless thoughts ricocheting all over the place from one catastrophe to the next one – none of which have actually occurred.
Some days, we seem more susceptible to mental meltdowns. The really uncomfortable part is the feeling that there’s nothing you can do about it. You just have to let it run its course and then, once it passes, you’ll feel better. I have an alternative suggestion – Re-Boot!
Ctrl-Alt-Delete
Having spent a significant part of my life as a computer nerd, there’s one thing I know how to do really well: Continue reading » How to Recover from Mental Meltdowns
It’s always your next move.
— Napoleon Hill
Do you know what you believe and do your beliefs empower you? We may think we know what we believe but over time our beliefs change. We can be so busy that we don’t notice and unconscious beliefs can be the most helpful/hurtful beliefs that we hold.
For me, I find that I can be a great cheerleader for other people, because I see the possibilities in other people more easily than I see them in myself. AND I believe that other people can achieve, while being not so sure about what I can achieve.
Lately I’ve been suffering from writer’s block. For me writer’s block doesn’t mean that there’s nothing out there to write about. Rather, it means that there’s nothing that I want to write about. The problem is that after a while, I begin to believe that the writing drought is reality – forever. As a result, I Continue reading » Protect Yourself
Too much bad stress, too often can make you sick. How do you relieve tension and anxiety?
Don’t let your mind bully your body into believing it must carry the burden of its worries.
— Astrid Alauda
With apologies to Paul Simon’s 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover, take a listen and let his music inspire your creative release of whatever tensions plague you. Of course, the problem isn’t all inside your head – bad stress permeates your body, your heart and your soul… and it’s as damaging as can be. Shaking off your stress is well worth the struggle.
Stress is the trash of modern life – we all generate it but if you don’t dispose of it properly, it will pile up and overtake your life.
— Terri Guillemets
There Must Be 50 Ways to Shake Off Your Stress
- Just slip out the back, Jack.
- Make a new plan, Stan.
- Bake some bread – beat that dough into submission!
- Learn to forgive. Really, do it, forgiveness matters!
- Make funny faces to a mirror.
- Yawn on purpose. Do it again.
- Remove yourself from the situation. (Hop on the bus, Gus.)
- Turn on a radio talk show, talk back or mimic the commentators.
- Help someone who needs help.
- Take off your shoes and soak your feet. Continue reading » 50 Ways to Shake Off Your Stress
If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness.
— Les Brown
I am not the only crazy person in my circle of friends. Several of us are learning how to trade stocks and options.
One of my trading friends, Susan, was just kicked out of a leading well-known brokerage firm because her account had been hacked. The hack was part of a “pump and dump” scam. The crooks buy a lot of a stock at a low price. Having cornered the market on a bunch of ABC Company stock, they then go out and buy a bunch more using other people’s accounts which they’ve hacked (the pump). When they have run up the price of ABC Company’s stock, they sell their own shares and then dump the shares that they bought using the hacked accounts. The end result is that they’ve manipulated the stock price and made a bunch of money over a short time-frame.
None of this is legal, nor is it my friend’s fault. The brokerage firm reset her account to remove the effects of the “pump and dump.” Shortly after all had settled down, they asked Susan to move her money elsewhere, claiming Continue reading » Just Ask
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