Fred Harteis Editor's Review: In maintaining a business, it is very important to manage stress. Here is a great article concerning this very topic. Fred is the owner of Harteis International, Inc.
A lecturer, when explaining stress management to an audience, raised a
>glass of water and asked, "how heavy is this glass of water?" Answers
>called out ranged from 20g to 500g. The lecturer replied, "The absolute
>weight doesn't matter. It depends on how long you try to hold it."
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>"If I hold it for a minute, that's not a problem. If I hold it for an
>hour, I'll have an ache in my right arm. If I hold it for a day, you'll
>have to call an ambulance. "In each case, it's the same weight, but the
>longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes."
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>He continued, "And that's the way it is with stress management. If we
>carry our burdens all the time, sooner or later, as the burden becomes
>increasingly heavy, we won't be able to carry on." "As with the glass of
>water, you have to put it down for a while and rest before holding it
>again. When we're refreshed, we can carry on with the burden."
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>"So, before you return home tonight, put the burden of work down. Don't
>carry it home. You can pick it up tomorrow. Whatever burdens you're
>carrying now, let them down for a moment if you can." "Relax; pick them
>up later after you've rested. Life is short. Enjoy it!
>
>And then he shared some ways of dealing with the burdens of life:
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>* Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the
>statue.
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>* Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat
>them.
>* Drive carefully. It's not only cars that can be recalled by their
>maker.
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>* If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.
>
>* If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was
>probably worth it.
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>* Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
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>* Birthdays are good for you. The more you have, the longer you live.
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>* You may be only one person in the world, but you may also be the world
>to one person.
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>* We could learn a lot from crayons. Some are sharp, some are pretty and
>some are dull. Some have weird names, and all are different colors, but
>they all have to live in the same box.
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>* A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.