Stress: Hard to Live With … Impossible to Live Without
None of Us are Exempt
Stress sets you up to feel vanquished or victorious. Doing nothing is a choice, and sometimes a good one. But you can meet challenges head-on and reinforce your sense of agency when circumstances mandate action.
CHOOSE YOUR APPROACH!
Face challenges head on, with serious intent, or ass backwards, playfully seeking the ridiculous.
APPROACH STRESS HEADFIRST WITH “THE 3 A’s”:
Awareness, Acceptance, Adaptation
AWARENESS of the circumstance enables the probable impact to be understood.
ACCEPTANCE of the stressful situation by naming it and claiming it allows the taming of it.
Awareness and Acceptance allows purposeful ADAPTATION rather than knee-jerk reaction.
Stress is non-negotiable, as is the need to deal with it.
Whether a stress phenomenon is externally or internally generated, navigating through turbulence still needs to be Accepted with Awareness on route to an Adaptive solution.
You can learn to ride the wave of stress without being swamped using the 3 A’s for guidance.
OR …
FACE STRESS ASS BACKWARDS WITH HUMOR:
If you are on board with the adage laughter is the best medicine, even when a life event is not even remotely funny, might any of these humorous malapropisms or slips of the tongue relieve the impact of stress?
What ways of misspeaking can you think of that might tickle your funny bone?
1. You’re trying reverse psychosis on me
2. That’s cocky pock.
3. We’re all on tinderblocks.
4. He was humming and hawing.
5. She went to the umph degree.
6. And there I was, faced with Nurse Kratshit.
7. Unbewittingly, I made a mistake.
8. My friend’s daughter joined an occult.
9. He’d like to bite off someone else’s nose to spite his face.
10. What if someone else’s life passes before your eyes when you die?
11. The class was so voiceterous.
12. It was a beautiful wedding cemetery.
13. I made a fraudulent slip.
14. He’s like a peed in the pod.
15. I was enlivid with him.
16. I have a whole new leash on life.
17. Everything went according to Hall.
18. It was par for the problem.
19. He got the position by the fly of his pants.
20. She graduated Magna Cum Spiff.
21. My friend’s daughter is really obeast.
22. We need to lick it in the butt now.
23. Everything is copathetic.
24. I was so mad, I was fumigated!
