Simple tips to help reduce stress

- Go to bed on time.

- Get up on time so you can start the day unrushed.

- Say 'No' to projects that won’t fit into your time schedule, or that will compromise your mental health.

- Simplify and unclutter your life.

- Less is more.

- Allow extra time to do things and to get to places.

- Pace yourself. Spread out big changes and difficult projects over time- Don’t lump the hard things all together.

- Take life one day at a time.

- Live within your budget and don’t use credit cards for ordinary purchases.

- Have backups of your important data, an extra car key in your wallet, an extra house key buried somewhere in your garden and keep extra stamps.

- Do something for the kid in you everyday.

- Get enough exercise.

- Eat right.

- Get organized so everything has its place.

- Listen to a tape while driving that can help improve your quality of life.

- Write thoughts and inspirations down.

- Every day, find time to be alone.

- Laugh.

- Laugh some more!

- Take your work seriously, but yourself not at all.

- Develop a forgiving attitude.

- Be kind to unkind people (they probably need it the most).

- Sit on your ego.

- Talk less....listen more.

- Slow down.

- Remind yourself that you are not the general manager of the universe.

- Every night before bed, think of one thing you’re grateful for that you’ve never been grateful for before.

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