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Me Vs The Television Remote

July 23, 2008 – 3:04 pm
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The enemy!"The fancier the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain."            —  Scotty, from Star Trek

Television remotes remind me why I spent over three years sitting in the woods.  Tying to figure out the current television remote makes me long to go back to the woods, at times.  Weren’t these things supposed to make our lives easier?  No longer did we have to get out of a chair and twist knobs and then fiddle with aerials.  Not that I was inconvenienced, but one consulted me on these things.  I hate TV remotes. 

I hate them mainly because they make me look stupid.  I managed to hook a DVD/VCR player to my Mom’s old television, but I can’t figure out how to use the remote (unfortunately, the TV will ONLY work by remote).   I have two college degrees and I can’t use the remote.  And I have to get my Mom to turn on the television whenever I want to watch something.

And now, she’s going on vacation.  How will I survive?

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Managing Fear

July 5, 2008 – 4:01 pm
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Managing Your Persistent Fears

By: Stanley Popovich

 

One Step at a Time

When facing a current or upcoming task that overwhelms you with a lot of anxiety, the first thing you can do is to divide the task into a series of smaller steps. Completing these smaller tasks one at a time will make the stress more manageable and increases your chances of success.

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Smiling Is Not Always Best

June 21, 2008 – 10:35 am
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happy horseOne of the best ways to relax is to smile, even if you don’t fell like smiling.  Because we’ve gone through years of smiling when happy, our subconscious is conditioned to always pair the act of smiling with feeling happy.  This is what I’ve read for years, and it does work … to a point.

A German study has shown that smiling at work when under job stress can do you more harm than good, because you have to go through long periods of being someone you’re not.  Scientist Dieter Zapf for two years studied 4000 human guinea pigs working at a fake customer service call center.  How he measured stress was by monitoring their heart rates.  (Even though call center workers can’t see the people they’re talking to, they are often instructed to smile, anyway).  The more stressed a worker was, their heart beat faster and the easier they got tired.

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Your Cuppa Is Good Enough

June 7, 2008 – 11:02 am
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suggestive_mug_2"I always fear that creation will expire before tea-time."  –  Sydney Smith

I love tea.  No offence is intended to coffee drinkers, but I prefer tea.  As long as you don’t consume too much caffeinated tea, it becomes a great way to relive stress and enjoy one of life’s affordable luxuries. 

That is, if you let it.

One of the most stressful things about living with my ex is that he sniffed at my lack of preference for tea rituals.  We were both homeless most of our relationship (what there was of it) and I was foolish enough to be grateful for any cuppa we could get our freezing cold hands on.  You can get rid of a lot of daily stress by enjoying what you have — if you truly enjoy it.  Don’t let anyone else tell you that you wouldn’t enjoy it so much if you knew about luxury brand X. 

And don’t let them make you do silly tea rituals if it doesn’t make any difference to the taste of your tea.

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Dealing With Cheapskates

June 3, 2008 – 12:05 pm
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cash_flowOne of the most stressful things about running a home business is that some of your clients suddenly decide that they’re not going to pay you.  Let me point out that the Admin for this blog has ALWAYS paid in a timely manner, so I’m not talking about him!

Or, perhaps a good friend or significant other has borrowed a large sum of money from you — and then refuses to pay it back.  This is also stressful.

I call people who promise to pay and then don’t "cheapskates".  You might have another word for them, but let’s stick with one I can print.  How do you deal with these cheapskates?

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