How and why you should stay stressed

[Tranquility]

http://www-psych.stanford.edu/~pinto/stress.html

Although the De Anza Health Office long been an advocate of stress management, stress, tension, and burnout are still common complaints of students, faculty, and staff alike. On account of this, we have come to the following conclusion: YOU ALL WANT TO STAY STRESSED! The following provides you with a few reasons why.

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[SciFi Chick]

Excellent stuff, Tranquility. I needed a good reminder, and reverse psychology is always fun. :D

[Tranquility]

Hey, anything that justifies procrastination..... :P

[Maksutov]

Hah!

That's not a psychology report.

That's the MO for four out of the last five companies I've worked for!

If you weren't (or didn't appear to be) almost completely burned out, then middle management's take was that you weren't putting in enough effort and your dedication to the enterprise was definitely questionable. A number of the managers from those four companies are now dead. One died at age 38.

It's yet another disease infecting American business, but one that's been around for at least 50 years, if not longer. Read William Whyte's The Organization Man (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0812218191/103-7263025-4645462?v=glance), among others.

[Candy]

WORRY ABOUT THINGS YOU CAN'T CONTROL.

Worry about the stock market, earthquakes, the approching Ice Age, you know, all the big issues.
One doesn't seem to fit quite right. :-k

[Swift]

WORRY ABOUT THINGS YOU CAN'T CONTROL.

Worry about the stock market, earthquakes, the approching Ice Age, you know, all the big issues.
One doesn't seem to fit quite right. :-k
You mean you can control one of those things! :o
Wow Candy, I was making a joke about worshipping you; I better be more careful.

Oh great Candy, hear our pleas, save us from the stock market crash!
:wink:
:lol:

[Maksutov]

WORRY ABOUT THINGS YOU CAN'T CONTROL.

Worry about the stock market, earthquakes, the approching Ice Age, you know, all the big issues.
One doesn't seem to fit quite right. :-k
You mean you can control one of those things! :o
Wow Candy, I was making a joke about worshipping you; I better be more careful.

Oh great Candy, hear our pleas, save us from the stock market crash!
:wink:
:lol:
Too late.

Wall Street says, "Eye, Candy!"

http://www.cosgan.de/images/smilie/teufel/a045.gif

[electromagneticpulse]

Hey, anything that justifies procrastination..... :P

By any chance was the original point for this post procrastination? I know that's the point of my point... must get back to my work, after a drink :D

[Jpax2003]

Don't forget this last tip they should have added:
Spend all your free time on Internet Chat rooms and bulletin Boards. Trying to change the world by arguing about petty issues is a sure-fire Stress Inducer.

[Candy]

WORRY ABOUT THINGS YOU CAN'T CONTROL.

Worry about the stock market, earthquakes, the approching Ice Age, you know, all the big issues.
One doesn't seem to fit quite right. :-k
You mean you can control one of those things! :o
Wow Candy, I was making a joke about worshipping you; I better be more careful.

Oh great Candy, hear our pleas, save us from the stock market crash!
:wink:
:lol:
You'd be surprised at what I can do! :P

http://home.att.net/~candy.stair/candygram.gif

[SciFi Chick]

Hey, anything that justifies procrastination..... :P

Procrastination! Hey! I resemble that comment. :lol:

[Tranquility]

I've been procrastinating so often I'm thinking that I subconsciously do it on purpose. For some reason, whatever work I manage to finish under pressure ends up being the best I do.

Oh the memories of English courses whose assignments I did at 8 in the morning when they were due at 10 are rushing back. And I never got less than A in those. Which is disturbing because it further encourages you to procrastinate even more :-?

[electromagneticpulse]

Amen Tranquility, you preach the truth :D

I don't procrastinate when I write or draw, even when I do it on the computer but as soon as its 'work' I can't do it. Maybe my procrastination is trying to force me to become the artist I've always wanted to be, or it’s trying to make me broke and it has succeeded with that already.