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Not a great yardsman, I saw my neighbor out back the other day trying to cut away some unruly bushes with a pair of kitchen shears. When I asked her what she was doing, she told me she had sold all her lawn equipment in preparation for her move to a condo, and it was the only thing she could find around the house to use for a tool.
Imagine her delight when I brought over my loppers! Their construction never fails to amaze me. What leverage you get with a pair of loppers. What a grand tool they are!
This reminds me of how a lot of people are trying to handle stress in their lives. They're using kitchen shears when they should be using loppers. And the sad thing is, they don't know such a tool is even available. It's called emotional intelligence, and we'll get into that later, but first, let's talk about stress.
The researcher most responsible for bringing the term into the field of psychology admitted he'd used the wrong word. An immigrant from another country and not being fluent in English, he had used the term "stress," he said, when he should've been using the word "strain.".
Stress is putting some pressure on something. It isn't necessarily a bad thing. In fact a little stress is welcome. It's well known that we humans need to have some stress in our lives. Too little, and we are bored.
In fact some people find this more stressful than having too much to do. "I hate to just sit around," we say, and we seek to fill our days with pleasant-enough activity and demands.
In fact one of the hardest transitions in life for some people is retirement. If you go from a busy job that's important to do, it can feel like there's a huge void in your life when there's "nothing" to do. "Sometimes people die when they retire," an internist told me the other day. "It's mostly from boredom, I think."
Having "something to do," that is to say a little stress, is part of being connected to life. It's only when the stress becomes strain that we buckle.
Think of a suspension bridge. It's built with "give" so in a heavy wind it will sway and not buckle or snap. Or think of the tree in a hurricane. It can be bent over nearly parallel to the ground and bounce right back, as long as it remains flexible.
"A little stress??" you may be saying. Many of us have too much stress in our lives and it's threatening to turn into strain at any given time. The trouble is, we're trying to use kitchen shears on it instead of loppers.
When you think about it, stress is change. "More" or "less" of something is occurring than the optimal state. When you have less money than you need, or less people to do the job than you need, it's stressful.Page: 1 2
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