Wednesday, March 27, 2019

De-Stressing for Your Own Good





"For fast-acting relief, try slowing down."


Being a mere mortal means you are incapable of being everything to everyone. Stress levels increase when we believe that we can handle more than we were intended to in our human frailty and limitations.


To achieve peace in our pursuit of stress management, we must keep a running list of our responsibilities but simultaneously not allow them to dictate every moment of our waking hours. Something's gotta give if we ever wish to obtain a tranquil life and find the time to unwind from the day's toils!


"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time."


A harmonious balance is what you should be striving for. You want to aim for ongoing white space on your calendar and remain in control of where your time goes instead of resembling an amateur juggler who takes on more than he or she can handle and becomes a laughingstock when everything falls to the ground!


There is serenity in living a quiet and old-fashioned life. We should jealously guard our time for what matters most. How many of us look back at our younger years and shake our heads in disbelief at how much time was squandered on less than worthy events and people! Let's make every new year of life less about doing and more about being.


It fascinates me how some families will involve their children in more than one sport, volunteer opportunity, and instrument lesson and then wonder why they feel a perpetual sense of rushing and overwhelm! So much of what people pursue in life does not matter at all in light of eternity. And it is only when we return to God and His word to guide our every decision will we see clearly how we ought to be redeeming the time instead of filling it with busyness and stuff that has no eternal impact.


Ask yourself if all your current commitments are an absolute necessity to your long-term goals. Be willing to part ways with any extras that are taking up time you can never get back.


If you will do a regular inventory of where your time is going, you might just discover how many of your hours are spent on unfruitful endeavors and thrown down the drain over common time-wasters like television and the Internet. In moderation it might be okay, but if you are spending an unspecified, undocumented, unaccounted for amount of time daily on shows, movies, or social media, it's time to make a change.


Strive for simplicity and you are guaranteed to receive back profound and weighty dividends.

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Love this!

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