Here are your sanity tips for the next 30 days. One for each week. Schedule them in your calendar right away. They are easy to do and will make a big difference to your sanity:
1. What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens. 2/18/13: This week pay attention to your reaction rather than the situation. Write your reactions to your problems in a journal to start identifying your habitual patterns. Only once you know those can you actually do something about them and begin improving your experience of life.
2. How’s the stress in your life? 2/25/13: What are all those things hanging over your head or running around inside it? Get them away from there. Write them down. One or a few words per item and per line. With a clearer head things will make much more sense. Once you’re done and you can’t think of anything else, pick one thing that will make a difference to your future and go take care of it this week.
3. Are you controlling your life or is it controlling you? 3/4/13: Reclaim your peace of mind: This week, using the list you created last week, identify what is important to you and your future and what is not on that list. Be honest with yourself and drop those things that basically turn out to be other people’s emergencies, not yours.
4. By calming your physical reactions to stress, you can pay more attention to your thoughts and find your truth. 3/11/13: when a stressor shows up this week; pay attention to your body. Where do you physically feel the stress? Teeth grinding? Tense muscles? Shoulders up around your head instead of under your neck? Make an effort to consciously relax that part of your body that has been taking on your stress. Not only will your body feel better, your mind (where the stress probably originated) will too.
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