Managing Stress #5 Uncomplicate your life.

Step 5: Uncomplicate your life.

Reduce the amount of time you spend on people who do not positively contribute to your life. Some people hang around with us, but do little to contribute to our life. While we are in a precarious state, these individuals are a drain on our energy.

Create a list of your best friends. This is your ’A list’. It should have no more than 5 or 6 people on it. These people you can prioritize. For a couple of weeks at least, these are the only people you need to feel any need to be with.

About the ‘A list’. For the purposes of this exercise, only people you are actually close to can find their way onto this list. Someone you haven’t seen in the last month may be dear to you, but does not get on the list. It’s about people who are actually participating in your life directly today.

Managing Stress #1

When addressing either anxiety or stress we are forced to acknowledge something. Things are not working the way they should. If we do nothing, they will continue to ‘not work as they should’.

Step 1: Change what you do. It will change how you feel.

Much of life is trial and error. If what you are doing already isn’t working, that’s ok. It just means you have to do something very differently. Our first step is to acknowledge that we do need to change.

Many people fail to see this. They continue doing what they have always done, and so they feel the same. And then they are surprised. Allow yourself to try doing life differently, after all what do you have to loose?

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