5 Secrets To Managing Stress

“I’m so stressed!” If I had a dollar for every time I heard that, I would never work another day in my life. Seriously speaking, stress is inescapable. How you react to it, though, is everything. Make up your mind that you will choose your responses. I lost my father a month before my final exams. These were final exams that would determine whether I graduated or not. It was the most stressful time, to say the least. When I moved to England, after passing my exams, it took me seven months to get a job, and I was trying to plan my wedding. Stressful… No one has not been through stress, in various forms. Sometimes what constitutes stress to one person is not to another. Sometimes many little things combine to become one big overwhelming mess. Manage stress with these tips: 1. Focus on the positive. When my father died, I was surrounded by so much love from my friends. My boyfriend was at my beck and call encouraging me all the time. Sometimes after I spent most of my waking moments crying, my friend Francisca would come and read to me in the evenings. My class representatives had...