A pleasure a day keeps the stress away!

First of all lets talk about how may stress level for last week was so high that I guess I forgot to

press the publish button for my blog... My mind was somewhere else last week...(May have

been because of all the pain killers I was on because I cracked my rib...but thats another story!)

Thank god I had saved it in a word draft otherwise more stress would have been added to my load!

So the semester is beginning to come to an end, and let me just tell you about my week... Okay so aside from the football game I had friday night, basketball game Saturday, and practice on Sunday, now that it's Monday (a day when my week is normally slow) I have to cheer at a basketball game tonight, Tuesday night, Friday night, and Saturday. Oh and did I mention that this is all on top of having to practice Wednesday and Thursday too?! OOHH and don't forget that I'm trying to be a student too.... Talk about the stress...

So cheerleading wise to manage my stress I just took everything day by day... I used a different approach for my other thoughts that haunt me during the night and keep me from falling asleep even though I am absolutely mentally and physically exhausted!!

I used the stress diagram strategy to help my academic stresses. I made a list of what stressed me and color coordinated it with the pie chart I made to represent the amount of stress in my life. It really made me see what I shouldn't be to worried about...(My documentation won't upload:( )

Try the 5 minute escape! This is a instant relaxer!

even if you cut it in half and only do like two minutes you will still feel great after!

Another strategy I plan on using (guess i'll have to let y'all know how it goes) is what I like to call the Turkey strategy... This strategy is doing all my work due at the end of the semester, over thanksgiving break, so that I don't have to stress when I get back!! Well see how that one works...

Enjoy your break everyone and let all your stresses go for at least a couple minutes over break!