Stay Scheduled, Turn Stress into a Positive, Just Get Going
Hi Folks! Connor and Nick here from Healthy Living With Nick and Connor. Thanks again for being on our email list, it means a lot, and we are excited to share our weekly email with you. We hope you enjoy it! Here is what we hope you take away from this one:
1. We miss 100% of the appointments we don’t schedule. Get your priorities down on the calendar.
2. Stress is all what we make of it. Learn to reap the benefits and don’t let it get the better of you.
3. Sometimes we need to just get started and not worry whether we are fully prepared.
Starter Mindset Tip: Get Friendly With That Calendar
As our lives get busier it becomes challenging to squeeze everything we want into our days. Exercise, sleep, leisure activities, socialization, relaxation, things on the to-do list can get left in the dust. Work, commitments and the chores of daily living tend to dominate our schedules. If we want to get better at those things we wish we could keep up with when times get busy we need to plan accordingly and get them in the schedule well in advance. Try making a point of inking things onto the calendar to ensure you carve out the time for them. Watch how much more time you seem to have, and how much more likely you are to get those things done. Remember those things we consistently do in life are whatever we choose to make time for.
Health Recipe: Turn Stress into a Good Thing
Timing: A few minutes every day until it becomes second nature
Level of Difficulty: Medium
Serving Size: Small
Spiciness: Medium tang
INGREDIENTS
You and your stress
REASONING AND BENEFITS
Stress is all what you make it. It can be extremely detrimental, or a very good thing. Those people that tend to perform best in life and stay healthy late into their lives are not the ones who avoid stress, but the ones who learn to harness it. So, we have to ask ourselves how do we make stress a good thing? The first order of business is to become self-aware enough to recognize stress when it is present. The next step is to determine what is driving the stress. The big thing here will be to let go of the stress that is caused from things we have no control over. This can be tough, but that stress will not be helpful. Stress from things we need or want to do is what we are after. When this stress is present do not view it as a bad thing. To be functional in society means we will have degrees of stress. Start to view it as fuel to get you going and something that can be honed into energy, focus and motivation.
INSTRUCTIONS
First, recognize when you are feeling higher levels of stress and acknowledge that it can be a good thing.
Figure out what is causing your stress and whether or not it is something you can control.
Try to let go of the stress caused from things out of our control.
The stress that remains from those things we need or want to do can then be looked to as a source of energy, focus and motivation.
PRO TIP: Start to look at stress as a good thing. If you don’t have stress maybe you are not getting enough new experiences, or you are maintaining too much comfort.
* Be aware that sometimes no matter the cause of stress, it can be too much to handle so have ways of coping with it such as increased rest, help from friends, offloading things to others.
** Utilize the energy of stress to stay focused and energized by reframing it as a fuel to get stuff done.
*** Seek out new opportunities or experiences that lead to healthy degrees of stress but match it with the capability to harness it.
Dessert Quote:
"The key to success is to start before you are ready." – Marie Forleo, Everything is Figureoutable
