I really enjoyed the whole concept of managing stress in
this chapter. Most of my life, I have been someone who allowed stress to get to
me and really change my mood. When I was in 5th grade, my mom
started allowing me to take “personal days” where I stayed home from school to
just take a break. As I got older, it got worse. The last guy that I dated was
typically in a bad mood and his negativity stressed me out. I think that a lot
of my stress stemmed from that. He
was older so I felt that I should look up to him and take what he did as an
example of what I should do. I felt like since he was always negative, I
shouldn’t have to “grow up” yet and that included reducing my stress or
negativity. It was definitely a more teenage outlook. When we broke up, I took
it upon myself to have a positive outlook. I started doing a lot of the things
that the book suggested. I started saying no to things that would stress me out
and not benefit me, I asked myself if I was happy and if I wasn’t I would look
at how to be happier. Soon the effort helped me reduce a lot of the stress in
my life!
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