Comments on: Doing Too Much Got You Stressed Out? http://advancedlifeskills.com/blog/doing-too-much-got-you-stressed-out/ Strategies for Positive Change Wed, 23 May 2012 08:08:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: One Dozen Simple Stress Busters http://advancedlifeskills.com/blog/doing-too-much-got-you-stressed-out/#comment-27647 One Dozen Simple Stress Busters Mon, 17 Oct 2011 19:15:25 +0000 http://advancedlifeskills.com/blog/?p=381#comment-27647 [...] Get plenty of exercise. This is common advice for stress relief, and that’s because it works. In addition to relieving stress, exercise also helps prevent it. A [...] [...] Get plenty of exercise. This is common advice for stress relief, and that’s because it works. In addition to relieving stress, exercise also helps prevent it. A [...]

]]> By: Balancing Stress Instead of Being Consumed by It http://advancedlifeskills.com/blog/doing-too-much-got-you-stressed-out/#comment-19034 Balancing Stress Instead of Being Consumed by It Tue, 29 Mar 2011 01:24:43 +0000 http://advancedlifeskills.com/blog/?p=381#comment-19034 [...] you right over the edge? That’s how stress usually hits me. I won’t even have a clue that I’m stressed out until I respond inappropriately to [...] [...] you right over the edge? That’s how stress usually hits me. I won’t even have a clue that I’m stressed out until I respond inappropriately to [...]

]]> By: EMotivate http://advancedlifeskills.com/blog/doing-too-much-got-you-stressed-out/#comment-426 EMotivate Thu, 11 Sep 2008 01:54:11 +0000 http://advancedlifeskills.com/blog/?p=381#comment-426 I personally struggle with the too many goals problem. I guess I am something of a renaissance soul. I pursued music as a career (it was surprisingly hard to make a living as a trombonist), then my own business, then my writing, then I went back to school to teach history, then back to business, then I started writing again…etc. I was easily distracted by anything shiny that crossed my path. Something I found that helps is sitting down and breaking things down to what are the values that I really want to live by. I like independence, I like teaching, and I like to be creative…really everything revolved around those things. So I try to pursue goals that meet one or more of those. If I can write with the intent to teach, and incorporate that into a business I am pursuing multiple goals in some ways without spreading myself too thin. I personally struggle with the too many goals problem. I guess I am something of a renaissance soul. I pursued music as a career (it was surprisingly hard to make a living as a trombonist), then my own business, then my writing, then I went back to school to teach history, then back to business, then I started writing again…etc. I was easily distracted by anything shiny that crossed my path.

Something I found that helps is sitting down and breaking things down to what are the values that I really want to live by. I like independence, I like teaching, and I like to be creative…really everything revolved around those things. So I try to pursue goals that meet one or more of those. If I can write with the intent to teach, and incorporate that into a business I am pursuing multiple goals in some ways without spreading myself too thin.

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