Posts Tagged ‘ Stress ’

Every year, like many others, I begin to think about what resolutions I want to make this year. I normally make a resolution so absurd and so unrealistic that I never think twice about it after the New Year actually begins. This year marks a new page, a new start, and a new challenge....
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 Happy Holidays, Expensive Holidays! In the past few weeks I have learned a great deal of useful information and effective tools for personal finance. I have learned how to create a financial foundation through savings, build on my future wealth with interest bearing accounts and investments, plan for my eventual retirement and children’s education. I...
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I recently took my final exams for my first block of classes. Stress was finally a factor in my academic life. However, I have been stressed before, but not to this magnitude. It was like a volcano erupting and destroying everything that I had previously built. My mountain of confidence was shaken like an...
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The first step in managing stress is to understand the symptoms.  Signs of stress include anger, chest pain, headaches, heart palpitations, irritability, joint pain, muscle tension, shortness of breath, sweating, and an upset stomach. Different factors of stress affect people in different ways. Something that may be stressful to one person may not be...
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Research shows that reducing stress is critical for good health. When you are stressed your body is more prone to illness. Over extended periods of time, stress has been proven to cause heart disease, high blood pressure, migraines, muscle tension, insomnia, and ulcers. Stress also causes irritability, aggravation, and can make you cranky. Who...
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Let’s face it, holidays are stressful.  Money is usually tight, families can be demanding, children have Christmas lists that are a mile long, and everyone at work wants to be off at the same time.  There is holiday cooking, baking, shopping, travel plans and packing to take care of and before you know it,...
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