When it comes to improving or maintaining our fitness, how do we deal with things beyond our control? Well, let’s first revisit the three main components of growth in the fitness domain. First, exercise and movement, next, flexibility and mobility, and finally rest and recovery. With each of these, you may feel as though you …
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Controlling Your Stress
Stressors in life don’t have to be all-consuming and they don’t have to control you. There are a number of things that you can do to counter, remove, and manage stress. Some things that work for me are being deliberate about my sleep, not committing myself to activities or events when I don’t have to, …
Accountability in Stress Management
How can you stay accountable in managing stress? There are a number of things that we can do to manage stress. We’ve talked before about how we can counter stressors that we can’t control, reduce stressors that we can control, manage stressors through our actions, and cope with stressors through our outlook. A great way …
Control Your Response to Stress
We let stress get to us. It’s not the things that happen in our lives or the circumstances that we must overcome…Rather how we let those things affect us. There are so many things that can get us down and cause us stress, but what I want to highlight here is that it’s not actually …
Prioritize to Reduce Stress
In my life, much of my stress comes from the feeling of having too much to do…from being over-committed, stretched too thin, and not having enough time to accomplish all that I feel like I need to. As I think more about this…whether it’s stress related to work, family, relationships, money or health, I can …