"You are Sasha Fierce", and Other Ways to Get You Through the Day

The pervasiveness of external factors and the extent to which they can disrupt our environment (and ourselves for that matter) create uncertainty on all frontiers. In both lives, uncertainty has been a major source of all my stress and anxiety.

Particularly in my life as an undergraduate student, I had several of encounters with stress. The causation (at the time): unknown. It appeared that every environment or situation I was placed in caused stress and/or anxiety.

In retrospect, the common factor in all situations was me. Having lived a previous life filled with unnecessarily embarrassing moments caused by my body's natural response to anxiety (over perspiration accompanied by quick and high-pitched speech). I pledged to start my new life combating this using several of stress coping mechanisms which I have learned through: consumption of media, literature and human observation. Of course, mastering the learned methods will take some time - there are still moments (okay, several) in my current life when stress gets the best of me and I revert to the old stress remedies of eating and cuddling my cat.

Practice makes better, not perfect. 

(Am I right, or am I right. Can I get an amen? Or an x-men, i'd settle for an x-men)     

WHEN DEALING WITH STRESS, CONSIDER:

1. Ain't nobody perfect.

2. Mistakes make for better, more satisfying successes so don't stop, never give up.

3. JLO gets better with age; successes get better with more failures.

Yup, she still looks the same now as she did then.

3. Fake it till you make it: you are Sasha Fierce. That is all. Actually no - there's also the fact that body language and physical movements dictate and predict mood and confidence. So, don't slouch or you'll be a grouch. Watch this TED TALKS for a deeper understanding.

4. You will never be ready, so just leave or you're going to be late (and sad)

6. You.need.to.relax. - go watch Key and Peele on Youtube.
laughing is to mood as viagra is to _______.

8. Feedback is good, even if its bad.

- Thanks for stopping by, have a good day.