5 Tips To Ease The Stress Of Holiday Party Planning

Who doesn’t love a holiday party?  The food.  The happy people.  The celebration.   The stress.   Holiday party planning is one of the most stressful activities you can engage in.   This article will give you 5 tips to ease the stress of holiday party planning.

This time of year has some of the most intense and wide-ranging party planning.   From the simple church get-together through the intensive christmas planning for the company party, the sheer diversity of the parties can be overwhelming.  But you can actually take control of the stress, and turn this situation into a personal and professional triumph!

Here are some tips to ease the stress of holiday party planning:

1. Make sure you have a good time management system.  There isn’t much time left, so you have to a lot in a little time.  Time management not only sets aside blocks of time for tasks, but also helps you to prioritize what tasks to do and what tasks to ignore.
2. Use your creative thinking.  Part of the stress is whether you will do the same party as in the past, or something brand new.    But know your audience.   What might be new and creative to one group of party-goers might be shocking and disgusting to another audience.
3. Focus on health and nutrition.  Planning a holiday menu that has a good mix of healthy alternatives will leave the majority of your guests happy.  Also, monitor the alcohol use.  Too much will ruin a good thing.
4. Take time for yourself to regroup.  If you are hosting the holiday party, or involved in managing it, make sure you take some time to take a deep breath – clear your head – and refocus on the priorities.  It is very easay to have a party ruined because the host got stuck on minutia and let the party slip off track.
5. Stay in good shape leading up to the party.  Planning and hosting a holiday party can be physically exhausting.  If you don’t work on staying in shape, including tapping into your internal energy, you could burn out halfway through the party.   Not only do you miss the fun, you aren’t available for the other party-goers.

There are plenty of articles and books on party themes, party planning, etc.   But not a whole is written on focusing on you and your needs in relation to the holiday party.  Keeping your stress reaction under control while planning a holiday party is a major factor in your enjoyment of the holidays.

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Heart Attack Symptoms In Women And Stress

Most studies on heart attacks, and heart attack symptoms, have been performed on men. But surprisingly, when the National Institutes of Health (NIH) studied heart attacks in women, they found that women have much different experiences. In fact, many of the symptoms of heart attacks in women are misdiagnosed as chronic fatigue or flu! So if you are a woman – or someone who loves one – you need to know how heart attack symptoms women differ from heart attack symptoms men.

 

Most people are taught to look for heart attack signs. And here is the first difference. In the NIH study, almost half of the women studied never experienced any chest pain – which is usually the first and most obvious sign of a heart attack in a man. However, women were aware of changes up to a month before their heart attack. The most common symptom was unusual fatigue, followed by sleep disturbance, shortness of breath, indigestion, and anxiety.

 

The problem for women is that these symptoms can – and often are – misdiagnosed as flu, indigestion, chronic fatigue. Since early diagnosis and treatment of a heart attack is critical to minimizing the damage from the heart attack, it is important that women having th4ese symptoms – especially if they occur suddenly – get examined by a doctor as quickly as possible. And, if the diagnosis is something relatively minor – ask your doctor if he or she has checked to see if you had or are having a heart attack.

 

Even during a heart attack, the symptoms are different. Whereas men recognize a heart attack most often by a crushing pain in the chest, usually radiating to the left arm, women may not suffer this. Women may experience a less intense chest pain, which expands upward and toward the shoulders, not the arm. This may be accompanied by upset stomach, nausea, vomiting, and chills – which unfortunately mimic flu. One symptom which may be unique to women’s heart attack is a sudden change in her skin: pale or clammy to the touch.

 

This article is not medical advice, and you must discuss your heart and your health with your doctor. There are many causes of heart attacks. You may be genetically predisposed to heart disease, and heart disease causes a significant number of heart attacks. Your diet may be such that you are overweight and the heart stress is too much. Or you may not be using proper stress techniques, which is causing your heart to work way too much.

 

You should have a complete physical and discuss any genetic or physical conditions you have which may contribute to a heart attack. I, for example, discovered a family history of high blood pressure. You should also take a long hard look at your life and see how you are handling stress. If you are not satisfied with your stress management, then change it. This goes for anything that contributes to stress. Your time management. Your relationships. Your finances. Make sure that you are minimizing the stress in your life.

 

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RICK CARTER developed STRESS JUDO based on his experience in managing the stress of 15+ years as a trial attorney and 25+ years as a martial arts stucent. Through this unique and exclusive traiing program, you will become the cool one under pressure.

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WHAT I GOT:

STRESS JUDO is a 6 month training program.  Each month, you receive:

• 2 full length MANUALS (1 on each of the 2 topics for that belt level).
• 2 CHECK LISTS of the main ideas for the Manuals
• 2 ACTION STEPS so you can use the training immediately
• 2 MIND MAPS for a graphical representation of the training

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WHAT IT WILL DO FOR YOU:

• The first belts train you to attack stress and remove the EXTERNAL pressure
• The next few belts train you to stay calm and strengthen your INTERNAL ability to stand cool and firm in the face of stress
• The upper belts help you master the INTEGRATION of internal and external control, so stress will never again be a bother in your life.

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Because the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, and expecting a different result.  And that is stressful.

How Are You Coping With Job Loss?

Coping with job loss means more than just usual “stress management tips.”  You know that crap: breath deep, take a walk, mediate.  Yeah.  And that does NOTHING for the stress of cash flow, rejection, and family pressures.  Coping with job loss means more than being calm internally.  It means taking control of the external and attacking this new horrible stress.

Here are 5 ways to cope with the stress of job loss that regular stress management types won’t tell you about:

1. Plan your job search like it’s a campaign.  You are not in this alone, nut no one else is out of YOUR job.  Attack your job search like it’s the enemy.  Lay out a detailed plan of attack, including creative places to look for jobs.

2. Stay in shape.  Letting your health go will reflect when you are in job interviews.  Looking despondent, desparate, and unhealthy is not what “dress for success” means. You need to fight the effects of stress on the body.

3. Meditate.  But didn’t I put it down up there?  Yes, if that is all you do.  But meditating on your strengths, on your plan of attack, on turning job loss into the next step in your growth – yeah, that meditation is fine.

4. Time and goal management.  It is very easy, when you are laid off, to lose your schedule.  Approach this period as “my job is now to find a job.”  Plan your day just like when you had your last job.  WORK at getting work.

5. Keep in touch with people.  Network and learn what places are hiring.  Find out which of your friends is taking this time ot open a business and get in on the ground floor.  Use your family and friends to keep your spirits up.

Surviving job loss can be approached as the end of your life, or as the stepping stone to a new and better job or career.  I have been laid off twice.  The first time, the company just folded up.  It led me to 2 new jobs, then a new career as a lawyer.  The second time, it was an opportunity to move back to a place my family was more confortable, and to a position managing several offices.  In this position, I have discovered a passion of developing young talent.

So job loss can be a positive thing.  The period of job loss sucks.  No money.  Stress from family.  But coping with job loss can make all the difference.

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Job Loss Judo – a manual to help you attack job loss like a judo master.

Stress Judo – a training program to turn stress into OPPORTUNITIES, whether job loss stress, workplace stress, family stress – whatever.  You will WELCOME stress.

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Top 5 WORST Stress Management Tips

Everywhere you look, someone is offering stress management tips.  And most of them are all the same.  But have you ever thought about whether these tips are good or bad?  Whether they actually work or are just parroting what someone wrote?  Whether they will actually relieve the stress in your life or make it worse?

Here are the top 5 worst tips on stress management usually seen on the web:

1. Take a long walk.  Almost every site recommends this.  But they recommend this as is.  In other words, just walk away from the stress for a while. So what’s the problem?  The stress is still there when you get back! And now you have just wasted time that you could be dealing with it!  If you are going to walk away from stress, then either use the time to clear your mind and recharge your energy, or to think about solving the stress problem in an undistracted environment.
2. Meditate.  Now, don’t get me wrong.  Meditation is a vital part of stress management.  But just to say meditate, without anything else, is like saying just run your fingers up and down the key board and you’ll be playing the piano!  Try several mediation systems and find the one that fits you best THEN – meditate.
3. Practice visualization.   What are you visualizing?  Your heart attack as the effects of stress on your body wear you down?  Looking for a new job after you get fired for not staying cool under the pressure?  This tip should be practice visualizing YOUR SOLUTION to the stress.
4. Don’t eat comfort foods.  Staying fit and healthy is an extremely important component of managing stress.  But look at all the above tips.  Taken on their own, each one of them makes you feel better inside.   But now you are told not to eat foods hat make you feel better? What the—?  Eat comfort foods in moderation.   Feel good while you are attacking stress.
5. Stay calm.  Come again?   What people call stress is really their bad internal reaction to stress.  So telling someone who doesn’t know how to react properly to stress to stay calm is like telling someone who can’t swim not to drown.  You will be calm under stress when you have the confidence of knowing you can react to stress.

The problem with these tips is that they are surface level.  They don’t go far enough.  They don’t relieve the stress.  They just make you feel better – temporarily – inside, while the stress continues to give you an anxiety attack.

Learn to attack the stress.  Find a program that teaches you to get rid of the stress, not just handle it.  Focus on tackling stress head-on and tossing it out of the way, instead of focusing only on yourself and your feelings about it.  Stress doesn’t care how you feel and stress won’t become less just because you can picture a happy place.

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