Stress Management

14 Ways to Stay Stressed

14 Ways to Stay Stressed

For those of you with perfectionist tendencies, here is your dream list! Fourteen ways you can ensure you wake up stressed and stay that way all day! It’s a perfect recipe for relationship problems, career problems, future heart attacks and unhappy families.

1. Stop breathing, breathe shallow and high and you can be permanently tense.

2. Have an angry hostile heart, it will make you sick and ruin your life.

3. Imagine the worst. Whenever possible, say negative things to yourself.

4. Rush a lot, always feel pressured by lack of time.

5. Never take time out for yourself, it’s always too relaxing and re-energizing

6. Always expect the worst. That way you’re never disappointed!

7. Be a perfectionist. That way nothing is ever the way you want it.

8. Never be grateful, for anything!

9. Love no one, especially yourself.

10. Be frightened, no, terrified, of change. This guarantees a high stress level permanently.

11. Hang around energy suckers who leave you feeling drained

12. Avoid all feelings, live permanently in your head.

13. Stay disconnected from yourself and others. Don’t have friends and alienate your family!

14. Smoke and drink too much.

So there you have it, a simple step by step process for eliminating all joy from your life! Just as you can easily follow these, you can almost as easily decide to do the opposite, so you have a recipe for joy and happy families!

By Amanda Gore

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About Amanda

Amanda Gore makes joy a business advantage. Amanda Gore is a CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame leadership keynote speaker, one of fewer than ten people in the world to hold the CPAE, CSP and Global Speaking Fellow designations. Organizations bring her to corporate conferences, association events and sales kickoffs to inspire their people and lift performance. With her method, Amanda Gore JQ®, every keynote is an amazing experience, and people walk away with new skills, tools and beliefs.

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