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Welcome to Daytipper. Top 40 Useful Sites To Learn New Skills. How to Keep Your Cool: 12 Tips for Staying Calm Under Pressure. When I was just a little younger, I had great big goals and objectives and aspirations for every day of my life. These days, my biggest ambition is to get through each day with grace and peace of mind – to be unflappable and to move peacefully from one task to another with focused attention and a quiet, calm energy.Simple right?

Ok maybe not. However there are steps we can take to at least increase how often we remain calm. Why be calm? Anger and impatience wear on our hearts and our minds and our families. Here are twelve tips for keeping your cool and staying calm amid life’s situations – both big and small. Strive to not catastrophize It’s easy to dramatize and make something a bigger deal than it is. It might also help if you can visualize yourself acting with patience and focus.

Here’s another technique: Do you know anyone whom you would describe as unflappable? Note your patterns of exasperationAre there any specific situations that cause you to lose your cool? “You are the sky. 21 Ways to Cope With Anxiety. Hello Sweeties!! I compiled this list from all of the comments on my previous post about anxiety last week.

I also added in my own ways of dealing with anxiety. Thank you so much for all the feedback! I was extremely touched!! 21 Ways to Cope With Anxiety ♥ Watch a beautifully stunning movie in your comfy pj's! ♥ Focus on the positive aspects in your life. . ♥ Listen to your favorite music or watch a television show that you absolutely love! ♥ Talk to someone close to you who can reassure that everything is going to be okay. . ♥ Take a hot bath! ♥ If medication for anxiety isn't an option for you, consider alternative methods such as hypnotherapy. . ♥ Take vitamin supplements that help with anxiety. . ♥ While trying to fall asleep, think about positive things like the projects you are working on.

. ♥ If you cannot sleep at all, take some Melatonin. . ♥ If you are religious, try praying. . ♥ Think of an anti-anxiety mantra. . ♥ Eat a banana! ♥ Sit down somewhere quiet and meditate. . ♥ Clean up! ♥ ya!! Welcome to Daytipper. Just Do What You're Doing. I'm not a particularly zen person. I multi-task like a tornado, I talk really fast and I once spent the latter part of a day at MachuPiccu thinking about which bus we were going to take into Bolivia. Add to this my deeply pragmatic nature and inclination towards eye-rolling and you can imagine how new age spiritual practices and proclamations about 'Serenity Now! " sit with me. I get all embarrassed and blushy and all "Is this really working? Is there a hidden camera somewhere? " But, you guys, I'm really, really busy. Last week, while I was simultaneously making toast, texting and checking my email (and doing a poor job of all) the tiny voice inside my head said: "For the love of Pete, just do what you're doing.

" Just make the toast. Just text your friend. Just email your mom. The concept of mindfulness isn't anything new. but skeptical me felt ridiculous announcing to my apartment and cat "I am standing in my kitchen. But a casual reminder to myself just to do what I'm doing? Archives | zen habits. The Girlie Blog. DivineCaroline: Relationships, Health, Home, Style, Parenting, and Community for Women.

50 Things Everyone Should Know How To Do. How to feel better now. What makes you happy? I find directly pursuing happiness is difficult to do. Many times the things we think will make us happy fail to do so. Instead I like to focus on growth and developing a strong life philosophy that can guide you through tough times and help you enjoy successes. But what about feeling good right now? I’ve found many different ways to give myself a jolt of happiness when I’m feeling down. Hack One: Goals Nothing creates a bigger jolt of enthusiasm than a new inspiring vision of the future.

Hack Two: Chores Procrastination sucks. Hack Three: Laugh Don’t take yourself so damn seriously. Hack Four: Aid Help someone who needs it. Hack Five: Socialize One of the leading evolutionary theories for explaining the size of the human brain is our complex social structure. Hack Six: Inspiration Find something to get you inspired, even if just for a short time. Hack Seven: Exercise Exercise releases various chemicals into your brain which leave you feeling good. Hack Eight: Posture. Lifehacker, tips and downloads for getting things done.

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