Posts Tagged ‘stress’

Take It Easy: 12 Ways to Kill Stress Before Stress Kills You!

There’s been a lot of fuss around the blogs about the New York Time’s silly article about bloggers killing themselves. It’s clear to anyone who reads it — and should have been clear to the reporter, Matt Richtel, even before he wrote it — that blogging isn’t killing anyone. Writers don’t blog ’til they drop.

Rather, Richtel offers a picture of several driven bloggers who, quite simply… » Continue

April 11 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: health, stress, work, work-life balance | 14 comments»

Save Your Sanity: Have a Communications Blackout Day

Technology is great, but there can be too much of a good thing. E-mail results in faster communication, but it also leaves overflowing inboxes, spam attacks and the need for lengthy messages. RSS, Twitter, Facebook, StumbleUpon and instant messaging programs can also be great, if the 24/7 uninterrupted stream of information doesn’t drive you crazy first.

My suggestion is that for one day each month, have a… » Continue

January 15 2008 | By Scott H | Tagged: Communication, e-mail, internet, messaging, network, simplicity, stress, unplug | 9 comments»

How to Let Yoga Make 2008 Your Best Year Ever!

People today, are under fire.
Relentless stress, longer workdays, fewer vacations, destructive nutrition and an epidemic of inactivity have led to an adult generation plagued by chronic pain, fatigue, disease and frustration. In search of an answer that does not require a lifetime of medication, many have turned to complimentary and alternative medicine and more conscious forms of movement.
For many, yoga has led the way.
While more than 16 million… » Continue

January 3 2008 | By Jonathan | Tagged: exercise, fitness, health, meditation, stress, yoga | 39 comments»

Withstanding Personal Attack in the Workplace

It’s been said that a man who stands on principle is bound to face personal attack. In my line of work, school administration, this has certainly been true as attacks can come literally from out of the blue. A longtime colleague can take you on, seemingly out of the blue with a laundry list of complaints. The next day, an attack might come from a parent… » Continue

September 25 2007 | By Mike | Tagged: attack, Communication, Management, stress, workplace | 7 comments»

Combat Mental Entropy With These 10 Tips

Entropy in physics is a measure of disorder. The second law of thermodynamics states that entropy will tend to increase. It isn’t uncommon to see an egg break, but it is extremely unlikely that a broken egg will spontaneously reform. Entropy increases with time.

Along with physical entropy I believe we all have mental entropy. This is the amount of chaos present in our minds… » Continue

September 18 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: energy, mind, organized, stress, thinking, zen | 7 comments»

10 Ways to Conquer Boredom (and Feeling Too Busy)

Boredom and feeling too busy are the same problem. Some people might claim I’m being too ambitious trying to strike down chronic boredom and busyness at the same time. I’d argue that the only way to take them out is simultaneously.

The problem stems from how you manage your attention. Both boredom and busyness stem from feeling there is a lack of quality in what is covering… » Continue

September 10 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: boredom, busy, emotion, frustration, Lifehack, mental, Productivity, stress, time-management | 11 comments»

How to raise the odds that it’s going to be a fantastic day

Got that Monday (and every other work-day) morning feeling? Here’s how to begin each new day as if you can’t wait to get started.

This is my 100th article for Lifehack.org. That set my mind thinking about beginnings and endings. Last week, I wrote about how to leave work gracefully, so it seems natural to follow that by considering how to start your working day on a truly positive… » Continue

September 10 2007 | By Adrian | Tagged: Lifestyle, morning, schedule, stress | 30 comments»

9 Ways to Take the Stress out of House Repair

There’s no doubt that repairing a house is worthwhile but the amount of stress it produces can be overwhelming. Having just moved from a newer four bedroom colonial to a smaller (and older) Cape Cod style house, house repair has been a reality for the last five weeks. Here are some simple ways to lessen the stress of working on a home:

Doing it yourself might not be… » Continue

August 1 2007 | By Mike | Tagged: house, repairing, stress | 3 comments»

7 Practical Steps to Turn Around a Bad Experience

Failure sucks. But if your planning on doing anything important you are going to have to get used to it. Embarrassment, frustration and even bad situations you can’t control are going to be part of life. What can you actually do about them instead of just having a “positive attitude?”

I definitely haven’t reached the pinnacle of human enlightenment. So I can’t boast that harsh criticisms… » Continue

July 9 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: bad, experience, relationship, stress, support | 11 comments»

Feeling stressed? Here are some recipes for slowing down

A handful of ideas to help you live your life and career with less stress and greater enjoyment.

Always move on.
“Move on.” These two simple words will save you more stress than any others I know.

Don’t dwell on your mistakes or other people’s successes. Don’t wonder “what if.” It will drive you insane. The past is past and cannot be changed. Move on.
Don’t corrupt your mind with jealousy. It

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July 9 2007 | By Adrian | Tagged: comfort, enjoyment, relax, stress | 8 comments»

19 Stress Relief Tips For Work

Building stress at the workplace is often unavoidable. We can attribute the amount of stress related articles here at Lifehack to that. The Ririan Project has, what I think, is an excellent list of tips to help handle work-related stress.

Throw your head back and shout loudly.
Shout and screaming is a great way to let go of all that pent-up tension that causes stress. Rather than risk being carted… » Continue

June 11 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: stress | 5 comments»

Your “personal stress detox program”

I have been thinking recently about the importance of taking enough vacation to get a real break from work. Here’s how to use the upcoming vacation season to make a huge impact on the load of stress that you’re almost certainly carrying around.

Make sure that you take a long-enough vacation for the program. You need at least seven days, preferably more if you can manage it. Any less won’t give

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June 4 2007 | By Adrian | Tagged: relax, stress, vacation, work | 18 comments»

Stress And You

Are you addicted to stress? Do you thrive under tight deadlines and adrenaline fueled situations? Do you take on more than you can handle or create bigger problems out of small issues? Here’s some information from About.com that might help define a few things.

1. You can begin to keep things exciting, but take the ‘crisis edge’ off, paring down unnecessarily stressful activities and distinguishing the subtle difference between a… » Continue

May 31 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: stress | 2 comments»

10 simple ways to save yourself from messing up your life

Stop taking so much notice of how you feel. How you feel is how you feel. It’ll pass soon. What you’re thinking is what you’re thinking. It’ll go too. Tell yourself that whatever you feel, you feel; whatever you think, you think. Since you can’t stop yourself thinking, or prevent emotions from arising in your mind, it makes no sense to be proud or ashamed of either. You didn’t

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May 21 2007 | By Adrian | Tagged: career, feeling, life, personal, pressure, prioritizing, stress | 218 comments»

37 Ways to Defuse Stress

Calm down! You can’t be that stressed. It’s not healthy! If you’re having trouble letting go of that little ball of stress, here are 37, yes Thirty Seven, things you can try from Reader’s Digest. You’re bound to find something that works. After all, who needs stress?
1. Embrace the number one truth about stress: Only you create it. Embracing the fact that stress is your reaction to external stimuli… » Continue

March 5 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: stress | 2 comments»

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