Have you ever noticed that one person who seems to always be calm, cool, and collective, even when things are at their worst? These are the people who take advantage of the knowledge they have and put their stress management skills to good use. Whether they learned their stress management skills from their parents, their [...]

As we venture through our day-to-day lives, we are bound to run into stressful situations that end up striking a nerve in just the wrong way to set us off. There probably is not a person alive that can say that there was never a point in their life where they could have benefited from [...]

The Big Burden
Imagine a student waking up and already filled with the myriad of assignments, chores, peers, and responsibilities to be faced in school. Imagine a parent waking up in the wee hours of the morning to prepare the kid’s meals for school, and then contend with work related duties and responsibilities. Imagine anyone else [...]

We all know that the teens of today are facing problems and challenges that so many people before them never had to face. And with these problems comes a lot of stress that is weighing down on their shoulders. For some teens, this is simply too much to be responsible for and they just do [...]

It’s no cliché: Small businesses really are the backbone of the American economy. Representing 99.7 percent of all employer firms, nearly 25 million small businesses have created 60 to 80 percent of the new jobs annually over the past decade, according to the Small Business Administration.
Of course, employing all those workers [...]

There comes a point in the lives of everyone where it feels like the entire world is pressing down on your shoulders to the point that you just cannot take it anymore. But what makes everyone different is how he or she handles this situation when it comes about. Some of us act like nothing [...]

If you constantly find yourself stressed out, you need to do something about it. Constant stress can have a negative effect on your health, on your well being, it can affect your personal relationships, and it can even shorten your life span. Stress doesn’t have to control your life. No matter what you do for [...]

We are social creatures, requiring some level of interaction with one another to mutually exist. Even if we are able to survive alone in the most extreme idea, the idea of effective communication and the need for self-expression requires us to have other human beings to interact with.

Always With Us
Nevertheless, stress is part of existence, [...]

It’s that time of year when the weather warms, vacations are planned and office clutter comes into full bloom. As the days grow longer, you may want to take a look at your office’s productivity in a new light, because becoming more organized and efficient can mean more time to enjoy those favorite summertime activities.
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The best way to manage stress is not to let it build up inside you and get out of hand. This may be easier said than done, but it is well worth it. Stress has been associated with diseases such as high blood pressure, obesity, stroke, high cholesterol, migraine headaches, lupus, and more. It is [...]