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4 Simple Steps for Staying Calm and Collected No Matter What Life Throws at You
I’ve always been a pretty calm individual (just ask my mom about that time I nearly totaled my older sister’s car at thirteen years old). Whether it’s having my already enormous workload doubled, having to make sense of a chaotic and disorganized situation or having to call my mom and explain why the police officer wants to talk to her, I’m the type of person that actually gets calmer with more stress.
It pains me to see that this is not the case for most people out there.
If you find yourself thrown into a tailspin every time something goes wrong, feel overwhelmed by life, unable to get a handle on things or just plain frazzled and stressed to the max… you’re in luck. Staying calm, collected and sane, no matter what happens, is something that you can easily master with time and practice (and these four handy steps).
How to Stay Calm and Collected, No Matter What.
1) Take a time out.
I know it’s not easy when shit hits the fan, your workload triples and everything seems to be falling apart around you, but you must. calm. down. Take a deep breath. Close your eyes and sit in silence. Count backwards from ten. Stop moving. Stop speaking frantically and jumping all over the place. Just pause. You can do it, I promise. Taking a moment to calm yourself down makes all the difference in how you’ll handle (and tackle) the situation at hand.
2) Don’t succumb to negative thought patterns!
I can’t handle this.
This always happens to me.
Everything is awful and life sucks.
You know the thought patterns because they’re your “go to” in these types of situations. If you’re automatically throwing your hands in the air when thing’s start to go awry, you’re never going to get anywhere. Things will never change. You will always be stressed and miserable.
You have to work at changing your thought patterns.
Source: http://truthisscary.com/2014/05/4-simple-steps-for-staying-calm-and-collected-no-matter-what-life-throws-at-you/
