It’s time to lighten up! The topic this week is stress, so take a deep breath before answering these questions. That is, if you want to...the last thing I want to do is stress you out about getting relaxed!
But before the questions, Jude of "My Way" was first to play last week. Congratulations!
Here are this week's "Saturday Six" questions. Either answer the questions in a comment here, or put the answers in an entry on your journal...but either way, leave a link to your journal so that everyone else can visit! To be counted as "first to play," you must be the first player to either answer the questions in a comment or to provide a complete link to the specific entry in your journal in which you answer the questions. A link to your journal in general cannot count. Enjoy!
1. Have you ever talked to your doctor about stress levels in your life?
2. How likely are you to “let go” of something that stresses you out?
3. Does your family or your work cause the most stress in your life? Do you think your family members or co-workers realize how much stress they generate?
4. Take the quiz: Will You Live to 100?
5. When you think that you are at the breaking point, are you more likely to have an angry blow-up, a self-contained meltdown, or something in between? When was the last time you had such a moment?
6. When you’re stressed out, what is the first clue someone who knows you well is likely to pick up on?
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MY ANSWERS:
1. I have a few times. No one should be ashamed to do so, you know.
2. Much more so than I used to be. Maybe blogging has had an effect on that, because I’ve come to realize that there are some people who are going to disagree with you no matter what you do or believe. Sometimes, they disagree for no other reason than to disagree, without even bothering to really listen to what you have to say.
3. Probably work. My co-workers probably consider me fairly “Type-A,” although I’m not as Type-A as they think I am.
4. Chance You'll Live to 100: 60%
You've got a decent chance of living to 100, especially if you're still fairly young.
You take pretty good care of yourself, but you could always do better.
Get enough sleep and relax. Life isn't a race. The slower you go... the further you'll get.
5. Self-contained meltdowns. Probably a mild one two weeks ago.
6. Probably that I get unusually quiet.
