How we perceive a situation and how we react to it is the basis of our stress. If you focus on the negative in any situation, you can expect high stress levels. However, if you try and see the good in the situation, your stress levels will greatly diminish.

Catherine Pulsifer

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Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

Winston Churchill

The truth is that stress doesn't come from your boss, your kids, your spouse, traffic jams, health challenges, or other circumstances. It comes from your thoughts about your circumstances.

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Worrying is blurrying. It stops you from seeing clearly.

Karen Salmansohn

Throw out the excess, clean up the mess, say no to stress, and live with less.

Observe a stressful thought. Notice how your shoulders tense, your stomach tightens, you hold your breath. Keep watching that same thought. Don't push it away, instead change your reaction to it. Breathe deeply, let go, relax your body. You're okay. It's just a thought. Breathe.

Ten years from now you'll laugh at whatever's stressing you out today. So why not laugh now?

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