Aurora63
<font color=0066CC>I do look ravishing, don't I?<b
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I co worker e-mailed this to me today, I found it to be quite insightful, and something we should all do once in awhile.
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A lecturer, when explaining stress management to an audience, raised a
glass of water and asked, "How heavy is this glass of water?" Answers
were called out ranging from 20g to 500g. The lecturer replied, "The
absolute weight doesn't matter. It depends on how long you try to hold
it."
"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."
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."
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
carryng 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:
*Accept that some days you're the pigeon and some days you're the statue.
*Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the
middle of it
*Drive carefully. It is not only cars that can be recalled buy their
maker.
*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
*Never buy a car you can't push
*Never put both feet in your mouth at the same time, becasue you
won't have a leg to stand on
*Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
*Since it is the early worm that gets eated by the bird, sleep late
*The second mouse gets the cheese
*Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once
*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 lecturer, when explaining stress management to an audience, raised a
glass of water and asked, "How heavy is this glass of water?" Answers
were called out ranging from 20g to 500g. The lecturer replied, "The
absolute weight doesn't matter. It depends on how long you try to hold
it."
"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."
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."
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
carryng 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:
*Accept that some days you're the pigeon and some days you're the statue.
*Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the
middle of it
*Drive carefully. It is not only cars that can be recalled buy their
maker.
*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
*Never buy a car you can't push
*Never put both feet in your mouth at the same time, becasue you
won't have a leg to stand on
*Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
*Since it is the early worm that gets eated by the bird, sleep late
*The second mouse gets the cheese
*Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once
*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.
