Do one thing at a time.

When you are with someone, be with that person and with no one or nothing else.

This is the most recent installment in an ongoing series elaborating on 52 proven stress relievers identified by researchers at Texas Woman’s University.

“Worry about the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves.”

That’s another way of saying:

Take care of today as best you can.

Yesterday is gone and tomorrow will take care of itself.

This is the most recent installment in an ongoing series elaborating on 52 proven stress relievers identified by researchers at Texas Woman’s University.

Use your weekend time for a change of pace.

If your work week is slow and patterned, make sure there is action and time for spontaneity built into your weekends.

If your work week is fast-paced and full of people and deadlines, seek peace and solitude during your days off.

Feel as if you aren’t accomplishing anything at work?

Tackle a job on the weekend which you can finish to your satisfaction.

This is the most recent installment in an ongoing series elaborating on 52 proven stress relievers identified by researchers at Texas Woman’s University.

Eliminate destructive self-talk: “I’m too old to. . .,” “I’m too fat to. . .,” etc.

These kinds of thoughts do no good, and undermine confidence and faith in yourself.

Be your own greatest fan, your own best advocate.

Start with yourself. It’ll grow out from there.

This is the most recent installment in an ongoing series elaborating on 52 proven stress relievers identified by researchers at Texas Woman’s University.

Become more flexible.

Some things are worth not doing perfectly and some issues are fine to compromise upon.

This is the most recent installment in an ongoing series elaborating on 52 proven stress relievers identified by researchers at Texas Woman’s University.

Schedule a realistic day.

Avoid the tendency to schedule back-to-back appointments; and allow time between appointments for a breathing spell.

Take a few minutes every hour to stretch, relax, and breathe.

This is the most recent installment in an ongoing series elaborating on 52 proven stress relievers identified by researchers at Texas Woman’s University.

Do something that will improve your appearance.

It doesn’t have to be time-consuming or costly. Just a little pick me up.

Believe it or not, when we make the effort to look better, we actually feel better.

This is the most recent installment in an ongoing series elaborating on 52 proven stress relievers identified by researchers at Texas Woman’s University.

Focus on understanding rather than on being understood; on loving rather than on being loved.

Take a page from St. Francis of Assisi…

Make me a channel of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury,pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
And where there is sadness, joy.

Please grant that I may not so much seek
To be consoled as to console;
To be understood as to understand;
To be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

This is the most recent installment in an ongoing series elaborating on 52 proven stress relievers identified by researchers at Texas Woman’s University.

Do something for somebody else every single day. Your life, the way you feel, will improve exponentially.

This is the most recent installment in an ongoing series elaborating on 52 proven stress relievers identified by researchers at Texas Woman’s University.

Feeling tense?

Take a hot bath or shower (or a cool one in summertime) to relieve tension. Add sea salt for even greater effect.

Close your eyes. Lie back and let the water wash over you; let the tension ease out of every pore.

This is the most recent installment in an ongoing series elaborating on 52 proven stress relievers identified by researchers at Texas Woman’s University.