Strategy for Stress Management

Here is a checklist to get your day started right!  

We found this posting on a Internet news group. It was posted by Cathy R., who runs a New Jersey-based support group called People Helping Others Become Independent.  She said it was fine to share it with you!  Isn't the internet a wonderful place?

1. Find supportive, understanding and encouraging friends.
2. Don’t put off till tomorrow what can be done today.
3. Leave the past behind.
4. Take care of yourself, physically.
5. Avoid the impossible dream.
6. Know your value, strengths and weaknesses.
7. Don’t say yes when you mean no.
8. Get mad, vent anger in a positive way.
9. Talk, talk and talk. Find a support group.
10. Visualize methods of coping if things go wrong.
11. Avoid stressful situations.
12. Laugh
13. Be polite, you’ll like yourself better.
14. Be well groomed, you’ll feel better.
15. Be flexible, adapt to change.
16. Communication, don’t shut it off.
17. Take responsibility.
18. Relax, yoga, meditation and massage.
19. Slow down.
20. One step at a time.
21. Spirituality, go to church.
22. Manage your time.
23. Organize your life.
24. Be spontaneous, 24 hours a day.

Contribution: People Helping Others Become Independent