A View from the Top of the Building. What A Beautiful Sight to see! Standing from my kitchen, I can see the Victoria Park Subway Station and the quiet Neighbourhood through the window. Believe it or not, the View from the Top has given me a nice feeling. It has relieved my stress and also, it has given me Hope that another day will be spent nicely. Listen to the wonderful Message of the Song – UP ON THE ROOF performed by the British Pop Duo ROBSON & JEROME, and surely, you will get what I mean.
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LIVING ONE DAY AT A TIME IN TORONTO – Up On The Roof (Stress Free)
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How to Beat Stress by Time Management
Monday, April 26th, 2010Effective time management is the key to beating stress when we are in situations that have strict deadlines. Time is a precious commodity which, if misused not only lead to the loss of your resources, but can cost you your health as well by stress. If you’re the kind of person who is or rushing at the last minute report writing and you have had enough time to finish work earlier, you need to pause for a moment and think. This kind of pressure becomes a habit and you’ll never stop complaining of fatigue associated with stress. So you need to set aside time to do your work without being pressed or anxiety. Stress due to poor time management can be easily overcome. Many spend their time chatting important while others spend time doing work less urgent and important. Therefore, the first thing you must consider is the urgency and importance of work and give it priority. You then need to allocate a specific amount of time to work so you do not waste time. You should also consider working hours so that you can devote the appropriate time. You need to go further and reminders that will notify you when your time is up and you’re supposed to work. You do not need to be an office worker to overcome stress through effective time management. Housewives may suffer stress as a result of not having the order and the plan as they undertake their daily tasks. You must be very careful as housewife and understand that you have no more time than others because the only difference is that in the house, there are no rules there are major delays . A list of your tasks and thus create some time to rest.
Pool Games ? Perfect Pass Time for Game Lovers
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010The huge demand for games is an evidence of this fact and recent developments prove that the demand is continuously rising. Due to increasing demand, several websites offer free online pool games. It can be single player or multi player. There are several advantages of playing online pool games: Increase your mental ability: It is not only the source of entertainment but also gives you various mental challenges to test your mental skill. Source of stress relief: while playing games gamers forget all their external problems and worries. Games divert your mind from all sort of stress. Great source of entertainment: Pool games is the best source of entertainment. You can enjoy it any time to spend your spare time. No need to force anyone to play game with you: one of the major advantages of playing online pool games is that you don’t need to request or force any of your friend or family members to play game with you as online opponents are available to play pool game with you. Increasing demand of pool games led to increase in number of websites. All you need is a computer or a laptop with Internet connection to access the games websites which can be simply attained by typing a query on various search engines. After that, your system’s screen will be flooded with websites that offer pool games. Therefore, it becomes very simple to access these websites on the search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN. Search engines are the best medium to find games. Lots of websites offer proportional services in which the improved prospective services are evaluated that offer full package of websites that befits your purpose. You should constantly wade during the search results from different websites. These websites are extremely famous as thousands of gamers enjoy playing pool games online. These websites also offer supplemental software that can help you to play games faster. With the increase of games websites offering free and downloadable games, it can be said that joy and fun are now being shared.
Manage Your Stress By Managing Your Time
Saturday, March 13th, 2010Are you one of those people who wishes you had a 30-hour day? Do you long for having enough time to homeschool your children, cook gourmet meals, tend a garden, care for a large, five-bedroom house, play the piano, and sit by the fire reading a good book? The fact of the matter is many Americans today are operating under a time crunch. We simply don’t have enough hours in the day to accomplish all that we want to.
The situation creates an enormous amount of stress. We may feel as if we are constantly operating under a deadline. We may feel fatigued and frustrated, and we may wonder if we are missing out on much of life because we spend so much time doing and not enough time thinking.We’re stressed at work, stressed at home, and stressed at our son’s soccer match.
The irony is, the more we do, the more behind we seem to get. We are constantly on the run, yet we may feel as if we are accomplishing very little. As a result, our pessimism grows. We may become short-tempered, especially with those we love. We may feel as if we are constantly running on empty.
The good news is there is hope, even in the midst of what might seem a hopeless situation. We can get control of our lives and control of our time. It may take a little bit of effort and time, but it will be well worth it in the long run. The first step we need to take is prioritization.
Many people feel as if they lack time to do the important things in life simply because they do not take the time to prioritize. Write down a list of your goals for the week, for the year, and for the next five years.
When you do your initial brainstorming, you can list the goals in any order you like. Then go through the goals and rank them in order of importance. After that task is completed, figure out just how much time you would need to accomplish each goal. You may find that just five minutes here or there can make all the difference in the world in achieving the items on your priority list.
Next, learn to multi-task effectively. That time you spend waiting in the line at the drive-thru window could be spent balancing your checkbook. Or the time you spend paused at the cash register could be used to read a book or a magazine. In general, you should not think of lines as time-wasters. Rather, consider them opportunities to accomplish some small, yet important, tasks.
In order to be effective as a worker, spouse, and parent, you’ll need some alone time. Get an appointment book and actually schedule a block of time just for yourself. Your alone time could be spent praying, re-evaluating your priorities, charting your progress, or just fixing yourself a nice dessert. Just be sure that you have some alone time each day. Otherwise, you’ll be shortchanging yourself, and you’ll feel more stressed as a result.
Don’t be afraid to say no. You cannot be a cub scout leader, girl scout leader, fundraising chair, and prima ballerina all at one time. You’ll need to pick and choose your assignments, both your professional assignments and your personal ones.
If you simplify your life, you might be surprised at how much time you’ll gain and how much better you will feel. Sometimes, it takes some backbone to say no. You might disappoint someone. But, in the end, you’ll be much better off, knowing that you have not overcommitted yourself.
You should consider your time to be as precious as the President’s. There are a number of duties which make demands on your time, those you love and those you don’t care for. By employing some innovative scheduling techniques, you can set aside the time for those things that are truly important to you.
You’ll be less stressed, more relaxed, and better able to cope with the challenges you encounter on a daily basis. As you become less stressed out, you might find that your children, spouse, and friends follow your lead. And your world will become more harmonious as a result.
Time as Effective Key to Managing Stress
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010Many studies show that one of the best ways to manage stress is through effective time management. Why? It is because lack of time usually pressures people. When people are being pressured, stress surfaces, which hinders them from finishing their tasks ahead.
While it is true that nobody’s born with precise skills in time management, this should not be difficult because people can always learn it. All they have to do is organize their thoughts and everything will most probably fall into place.
Managing your time well
To effectively manage your time, the first thing that you need to do is to set your mind into it. You have to recognize your strengths and weaknesses when it comes to managing your time and set appropriate actions for it. What you can do is list down what are your difficulties in achieving goals and tasks behind the given schedule. Once you have determined the factors, which hinder you in achieving a certain task on time, you can make a draft of alternatives to solve them.
By doing this, it also shows a sign of maturity because you can admit to yourself what are the things that you’re doing wrong when it comes to managing your time and performing tasks at hand. This is a very important part of gaining time management skills because maturity will help you think straight and prioritize your goals.
The following are other considerations when it comes to time management. These will help you not only gain time management skills but can also help you manage stress in various situations easily.
1. Gain skills in decision-making. Experts say that good decision making skills is key to achieving effective time management skills. This is because if a person is able to decide and prioritize things at hand, he or she can easily cut off so much time contemplating and can move on to the next task. If you want to manage stress through time management, it is best if you equip yourself with information on how to achieve effective decision-making skills and various techniques to do so.
2. Familiarize yourself with techniques that can help you manage your time well. This is very important in gaining time management skills because it can help you save more energy in doing things. Gaining prioritizing skills is quite important in effective time management because it will allow you to pay attention to things that are of most importance. These techniques on effective time management can be researched on the Internet or can be learned from the stories of people who were able to gain success through managing their time effectively.
3. Learn the ropes of planning. Experts say that people who know how to plan well are also good in managing their time. This is because planning is a skill, which needs a lot of patience and preparation at hand. Planning is a vital part of gaining time management skills because it can help people do things ahead of their time, thus, enabling them to patch up things that go wrong along the way in no time.
4. Put ideas and techniques into action. In acquiring the skills of effective time management, you must learn how to put into action that techniques that you have learned. By doing this, you can easily make a timetable for yourself in finishing the tasks ahead of you.
5. Arm yourself with tools. To manage time effectively and help you draft suitable means of stress management, you need tools and gadgets, which will make things easier for you. Today, there are so many modern gadgets that can be used to help you manage your time such as the Personal Digital Assistant or PDA and others.
Hand held devices can help you calendar your activities, thus, giving you more time for other things.
Tips To Save Time And Be A Stress Free Mom
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010Are you a Mom stressed for time and what Mom isn’t? Do you feel like the number of hours in one day just isn?t enough for all your activities? Well, here are several practical ways that you can do to save time without making sacrifices:
1. Planning meals for the entire week. When you?ve listed down all the ingredients for the meals that you will prepare, it means that the grocery trip would only be done once. Rushing to the store is avoided. When you?ve planned your meal, it also means that you?re not as tempted to go to the restaurant. You save both time and money as a result. If you need some help with your planning, you can search recipes online.
2. Sticking to your schedule for the day. There?s a lot to be said for being organized and strictly following your itinerary. When you have it mapped out, you focus on the current task instead of worrying about keeping them all in a balance. It?s a good idea to know all your family members? plans too. That way, you help each other out and nothing is set aside.
3. Keeping lists. Honestly, it feels so good when you cross off the items on your list. Keeping a list helps keep you on track and lets you avoid making mistakes or worse, forgetting about a task altogether. It lessens your worrying too.
4. Being organized. This saves you the most time. When you know where things are and how each aspect fits into the picture, you?ll get rid of the stress associated with your responsibilities. Staying organized is the key however, since it?s very easy to get your things all in a clutter.
5. Getting errands done in a single trip. To accomplish errands the most efficient way, get them all done at one time if possible. You can?t imagine the wasted minutes or hours that are spent waiting for the next task. When you intertwine jobs with errands, you’re exposing yourself to the danger of getting distracted.
6. Delegating if you can. There can’t be a way for you to accomplish all the chores yourself. Gratefully, we have family members and co-workers who can assist us.
7. Eliminating distractions. Don’t do a lot of multi-tasking. You will find that when you?re working on the computer, turning off the social networking sites will actually mean that you?ll have more time for them later on. Doing so also has the desirable effect of maintaining the quality of your tasks.
8. Knowing when to say no. Sometimes, you will be required to accomplish more than one person could possibly do. I suggest that you decline properly and either delegate or reschedule the task.
9. Using idle time wisely. When you?re commuting or waiting for a meeting to begin, there are many productive things you can do. You can respond to text messages and emails, plan your report, or make the shopping list.
10. Grouping similar tasks. If there are tasks that you can do simultaneously, then you better schedule them to be accomplished together. While speaking on the telephone, there are tasks that you can do. Or you can rearrange and clean at the same time.
As you use these tips you’ll soon realize stress free living is closer then you think. Saving time means that you can have more time for things that are most valuable to you. Managing one?s time also means that you can keep your lifestyle. Apply these ideas and you’ll soon find that you have a lot of time for yourself.
5 Ways To Be Better Looking And Manage Anxiety Attacks By Managing Stress And Time
Friday, February 26th, 2010Your looks are suffering from not using time management properly to manage stress. Those dark circles under your eyes from lack of sleep? That recent weight gain from fast-food dinners and not working out? Shortness of breath from panic attacks? This is caused not only by the stress, but by not having the time to actually address and get rid of the stress. And it’s not just workplace anxiety that needs to have time managed. Every area of your life demands your time. Every area of your life has stress. Every area of your life suffers if the stress overwhelms the time you have.
Using aggressive time management can relieve help these problems. Managing your time in the face of stress helps you stay on your diet or your fitness routine. This goes a long way towards managing the physical symptoms of anxiety attacks. Having a stress management system that uses time management to force time to be healthy will actually make fighting stress all the easier.
Here are 5 ways to use time to stay focused on health in the face of stress:
If you don’t do set aside time for your health, the answer to “how does stress affect health” will be “worse and faster.” The signs symptoms of panic attacks can cause many health problems. If the stress is allowed to take up your working out time, the stress will affect your health much worse. Which will reduce your ability to fight stress. Which will make the stress worse. And so on. And so on. It may be difficult to get your time under control. It’s a lot harder trying to get your time under control in a stressful situation and feeling lousy about it.
Time management is an integral part of what to do to relieve stress. Too often, it is presented as the solution to stress management. Granted, it is a large part of the solution. But this is not enough. That’s like saying sticking to your diet will eliminate anxiety attacks. It will make them easier. But it won’t make them go away. And it won’t let you find the opportunities that lie in every stressful situation. Using a comprehensive stress management system which includes time management throughout will eliminate the bad effects of stress on your physical appearance and actually make you better looking!
Going to College and Managing Stress: Who has Time?
Monday, February 22nd, 2010Whether you’re a high school graduate or a single mom revisiting college later down the road, you will need to learn tools for managing stress. Stress is a natural reaction your body has to a perceived danger or situation.
When you think that you’re doing more than you actually have the time, energy, or resources to accomplish, you become “stressed out.” This is the difference between stress that is manageable and stress that you need to ask for help.
Have you had trouble sleeping at night?
Do you find yourself worrying that you’re going to do badly on an assignment?
Have you ever “froze up” on an exam?
Are you missing classes?
Do you find yourself procrastinating on an assignment?
If you’ve answered yes to any of the following questions, you may be under an excessive amount of stress. When stress becomes more than you can handle, you may need to find ways to better organize your time.
Time management is the most effective way to relieve stress in your life. By organizing your time and keeping track of what you’re spending the most time on, you’ll be able to better evaluate what you need help with and even eliminate some of the stressors in your life.
Managing stress is easy with these steps:
Get an appointment book.
Focus on one task instead of switching around.
Take breaks. Live GUILT FREE. If you don’t make time for yourself, your stress could lead you down a road of depression and anxiety.
Prioritize things that are important to you.
Learn to say no. (I don’t mean to your homework assignments, necessarily.)
Put small chunks of time to work for you. Riding on the bus? Take a moment to read that chapter in PSY101 you still need to read.
The following tips are things to keep in mind for managing stress. Don’t forget to talk to someone if you feel like your stress is overwhelming your whole life.
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Time Management: the Key to a Successful, Stress-free Life
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010It’s one of those mornings when you hit snooze too many times and as a result wake up late. Since you’re running late, on a whim you decide to skip breakfast, grab a quick shower, hastily dress, and run out your door hungry, irritable, and somewhat ready for another day of work. On your drive to work, you realize that you left your cell phone at home along with your daily vitamin. In this frustration, you decide to reflect on last night when you sat in rush-hour traffic on your way home, finished your weekly proposals, cooked dinner, went to the gym, bought groceries, and took your daughter to her daily gymnastics class. All of these after-work activities stressed you out and produced an unwanted headache that kept you up for most of the night. You sigh and think, “If I only had more time.”
Does this sound familiar? If it does, don’t worry because you’re not alone. In the last 25 years, our leisure time has been reduced by 37 percent, while our work week has increased by a full day. Most of us lead busy lives that cause unwanted stress, which can produce long-term health consequences such as heart disease, stroke, and gastrointestinal problems.
Do you want to reduce stress and have more time for relaxation, family, and leisure activities? If so, time management is your answer. Time management is a set of skills, tools, and systems that work together to help you get more value out of your time while improving your quality of life. The following steps will help you manage your responsibilities and relieve you of unhealthy tension so that you can enjoy your day-to-day routine and lead a healthier life.Organize Your Space
Before you do anything else, you’re going to have to organize your space. As a whole, Americans waste more than 9 million hours each day looking for misplaced and lost items. If you organize your home and office, think of how much time you’ll save looking for things. You’ll have fewer interruptions, experience less frustration, and will be able to locate important articles, documents, and files in a timely manner so that you can continue finishing what needs to be completed.Plan and Schedule
It’s important to remember that calendars, appointment books, and to-do lists will serve as reminders and help you identify deadlines. Spending 15 minutes every morning to update these tools can save you up to 6 hours a week and you’ll be able to successfully make use of your schedule. Additionally, by having a thoughtfully planned out schedule you’ll be able to:
• Understand what is achievable with your time
• Make the best use of the available time
• Leave enough time for tasks that you must do
• Have time to handle the unexpected
• Avoid over-working yourselfPrioritize and Set Goals
It’s essential that you prioritize your activities on a daily basis and set attainable goals. Focusing on the results that are most important to you will help you achieve the greatest benefit possible with the limited amount of time available.
If you are confused by what your priorities are or have many different priorities, look over your to-do list and choose the most important things and do these first. By realizing goals, you’ll feel accomplished and be motivated to continue finishing lots of things on your to-do list. This will result in completing work and having more free time.Beat Procrastination
Procrastination is one of time management’s biggest enemies. Procrastination is a destructive habit that impulses you to put off important tasks over and over again. You are procrastinating when you do something more enjoyable or comfortable than what you should be carrying out. Some people are so strongly affected by procrastination that it negatively impacts their careers and personal lives.
Here are tips that will help you overcome procrastination and allow you to successfully manage your life:
• Develop good organizational and personal effectiveness habits such as establishing the right priorities
• Make the most of the opportunities available
• Recognize that important things are likely to be the actions that help you achieve something of real significance and that urgent matters need to be taken care of efficiently so that you can stay on top of the important tasks of the day
• Even if you don’t feel like doing something, you can just start and once you’ve started you’ll likely begin to feel more motivated to continue doing it
• Plan a reward or celebration for yourself for completing tasks, such as a walking break or candy treat
•Make a list of activities that you enjoy that can be completed in 5 to 30 minutes and find creative ways to fit these into your immediate and long-term scheduleBeat Exhaustion
If you’re tired, it’s no use having priorities and a beautifully arranged schedule since you’re likely to not stay on task. You’ll be more vulnerable to interruptions during the work day, which can consume 10 to 20 minutes in getting back on track, not to mention the time spent conversing with the interrupter. Exhaustion happens to all of us and can have a negative impact on successful time management.
Some steps to combat exhaustion and fuel your energy:
• If you’re a morning person, plan your most important work for early in the day; if you’re a late-day person, do the opposite
• As much as possible, make sure to sleep at least 8 hours a night so that you can perform your best
• After a few hours of sitting at your desk or after a long meeting, get up from your chair and stretch
• Go outside for a 5 minute walk to get your limbs moving, breath some fresh air, and catch some sunshine
• Drink plenty of water to keep yourself hydrated and eat balanced meals to keep yourself energized
• Make time for quiet time by taking a few minutes to close your eyes and relax
As you can see, a little organization, prioritizing, and planning goes a long way. By implementing these tools, beating destructive habits like procrastination and exhaustion, you’ll allow yourself to have more free time. Time management will let you spend quality time on your hobbies and enjoy stress-free days. Time management will give you more time in the mornings to eat breakfast, calmly shower and dress, and not leave behind important items like your cell phone and vitamins. More importantly, by incorporating these time management steps into your daily living routine, you’ll be a more successful individual and have more time to finish your proposals, cook dinner, buy groceries, workout, and take your daughter to her gymnastics class.
