Five Easy Ways to Reduce Stress

I'm stressed out during much of my life as manynever finish anything! But deadlines, or actually
of us are. Although some forms of stress can betrying to make them, increases stress. I try to
healthy, excess stress is unpleasant and can leadbeat all long term deadlines by several days and
to medical problems. With 3 kids, a needy wife, ashortterm deadlines by an hour or so. It isn't
demanding paramour, and a wacked out job withalways possible, but it helps.
a near crazy boss, who wouldn't have some4) Exercise. Yes, it help. A lot, so just do some. It
excess stress?doesn't matter if all you do is an occasional walk
Here are five simple techniques I use to helpduring lunch or you train for a marathon,
control or at least limit my stress.exercising helps manage stress a lot. I at least try
1) Arrive early. I hate being late, although it seemsto walk during lunch a couple times a week when
to be in my DNA sometimes. By trying to arrivesuper busy, and otherwise have a pretty
a few minutes early, especially to things with hardextensive workout routine.
deadlines like airplane flights, that's one less thing5) Pick your battles. You can't argue about
to stress about.everything, whether it's with your kids, your
2) Caffeine - limit it. I love coffee! Hard to imaginespouse, your boss, your co-workers or anyone
a morning without it. But despite sometimeselse. Many things are just not important enough
literally having 10 cups a day, I really don't needto get worked up about.
that much. I find excess caffeine increases myI'm an overloaded wacked out psycho some of
stress, so I limit caffeinated beverages to a verythe time, or so it seems. But the above tips help
few times a day max.me control my stress to manageable levels.
3) Beat deadlines. Without deadlines I'd probably