excercise, drinking, eating, anger.... How do you tend to deal with stress in your life? I was a stress eater, got fat that way. Now I'm working so hard on the weight issue while also changing careers, housing, city and all that brings stress. I'm trying to excercise daily to help, but it only helps a small amount. Any thoughts on stress?
Get a hobby that allows you to give your mind a break from the stress. I have a pretty nerdy hobby, but it keeps me centered.
do what you enjoy as often as possible, and try to not focus too much on what society tells you that you SHOULD enjoy.
I would like to get into sea kayaking. In Seattle there are plenty of opportunities to do that. But, right now my hobby is board games and a living card game (netrunner).
i love a good bike ride, but that's often not a choice since taking three + hours out of the day is often excessive. I've been drinking more wine, but since that's my new career, it's not quite as relaxing to read, talk and think about now. I still love it, but there is some stress in that now since it's a reminder of all I still need to learn and do. I'm basically fine, but it would be nice if there were an eating equivalent that wasn't bad for me. And yes, rubbing one out works too.
Everything, booze, food, exercise, is just postponing the correction. You need to figure out what causes the stress and fix it or throw it away. Replace the stressful activity (even difficult customers) with enjoyable activity. No other way. Too much booze just leaves you with the need to learn, you don't need to do it. You have already found excess food requires the same learning. Bad knees or whatever happens from trying to exercise stress away, will also take the same learning process. So, might as well put the learning time in the right place right up front. Find your cause ( the real cause) of the stress and fix a fault and/or eliminate an excessive cause. It can be done.
The stress is normal to big life changes. I am entering a new program to change my career, which means a lot of uncertainty about my future, getting a new job, moving to a new town, and of course with all that I need to start being very frugal since my savings are limited and schooling and living costs money. Also I'm working nonstop on my weight, (89lbs lost so far) which means tons of doctors visits, excercise, dieting and buying new clothes since all my old duds don't fit. So as you see, all the stress comes from doing good things and trying to improve, not something I really want to give up. I am just looking for better ways to manage. And I'm doing ok, just the last few days have been exceptionally hectic and stressful. But regardless of how well I deal with it, I'll end up a happier, healthier person in the long run.
I don't think so. A big part of managing stress is understand what causes it, often it is the need for more information or the need to learn. As long as you are making progress and understand you are making progress, then there should be no stress, but you may need to forgive yourself for being slow on the progress and allow for mind time. I like walks in the woods.
Korean massagi girls, son. Or go to hawaii. you can do it pretty cheap if you know how to hack it. Three days of chillin at the beach and wearing sandals and board shorts and not giving a fuck does wonders.
