Simple Stress Relief Tips: Why Make Yourself Crazy

These stress relief tips have been distilled from Gaynor McTingue’s book titled: Why Make Yourself Crazy.

What I like about this book is that there are tips for virtually every stress inducing situation you find yourself in and they are simple enough for any stressed out individual out there to implement.

Why don’t you try them out and several others from the book and see how much your life gradually shifts into calmness as you wave goodbye to stress.

Stress Relief Tip # 1
One Task At a Time Please

Whilst multi-tasking sounds like a fabulous skill to have, it is always a better idea to do one thing at every given time. Apply your mind to what you are doing and please do it well.

Leave multi-tasking to those objects called computers. They are excellent at multi-tasking. Not us humans. Multi-tasking leads to poorly and shoddily finished jobs which eventually results in visiting the task again to correct errors sometimes costly errors.

Stop distracting yourself by dividing your attention between too many tasks in one go. Give the task at hand its deserved attention. Take your time to get it right first time and enjoy the experience. Incorporate this stress tip and strategy into your life and see the difference.

Stress Relief Tip # 2
Get Rid of Mindless Deadlines

You know the ones I’m talking about. Our lives seem to depend on them but are they really worthy of a decent place in our lives? Probably not! Unnecessary deadlines only pile on the pressure on us which inevitably leads to stress. Don’t fall for it.

Whilst goal-setting is good for success in whatever task we undertake, setting unrealistic time frames for completing tasks is absolutely detrimental to your health. Take time to complete tasks in a manner you will be pleased with.

Getting the job done properly is more important than completing it in a hurry without paying attention to details because “we had a deadline to meet”. Only deadlines like Tax Return are worth the attention in our lives.

Stress Relief Tip # 3
De-Clutter Your Life

Clutter, clutter every where – the car, the garage, the house, the office, the loft. Why? How much stuff do we need to make our life meaningful? We acquire stuff everyday without getting rid of the ones we acquired yesterday. Soon we will be tripping on our own possessions.

Some of the stuff we’ve never touched for months, sometimes years. Either use it or lose it! It’s very easy to do just that. Get rid of one such item every day. Throw it away or give it out to someone who really needs it and has use for it.

Doing this will gradually create room and space in your life, so you can have order; you can  “breathe” and see the things that deserve to be seen in your life.

Stress Relief Tip # 4
Reduce Stress Due To Competition

What’s one of the most powerful driving forces for stress in today’s modern world? Yes. you guessed it – Keeping up with the Joneses. We vie and compete for everything. We want to be next big thing.

Be the envy of the guy next door. Have more money, be the prettiest or the most handsome, have more possessions, have the nicest car in the neighborhood. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not suggesting you shouldn’t have that slight competitive edge that will enable you succeed in life but you need to tone it down to reasonable levels.

If you don’t, your health suffers. Compete for calmness in your life starting today and watch the stressful race for material things from a distance and see how your health benefits.

Stress Relief Tip # 5
Less Is More

Most people don’t realize this. Do you want a fulfilling life or one that is just simply crammed? The secret to happiness is not ultimately measured by our material possessions or how much activities we undertake but by how much we enjoy each experience in life.

Having too much in our diary is not necessarily enriching, but much more of an emotional and physical drain leaving us with very little time and energy to enjoy the things we love.

Scale it down and soak up each experience to the full and see the difference.

Why Make Yourself Crazy authored by Gaynor McTigue offers 300 stress relief tips, strategies and techniques like these.

I use it as reference book every time stress gets to me and I always find a tip to suit every stressful situation I find myself in.

Any reader like me is likely to see it as a Stress-Buster that always comes in handy during those stressful moments.

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