A friend of mine has a big birthday coming up next week and I found this list she distributed on the back of an official memo back in the days we worked together. Try one of these techniques if you’re one of those people who suffer performance anxiety at horse shows or any other kind of anxiety. Be sure to comment with a link to your stress-relief experiment. Happy Birthday, Sue Z.!
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Here is the (sic) text:
How to handle stress
#1 Be the cause of it!
- Jam tiny marshmallows up your nose and try to sneeze them out.
- Use your MasterCard to pay your Visa bill.
- Pop some popcorn without putting on the lid.
- When someone says “Have a nice day!” – tell them you have other plans.
- Find out what a frog in a blender really looks like.
- Make a list of things that you have already done.
- Put your toddler’s clothes on backwards and send him off to preschool as if nothing was wrong.
- Thumb through National Geographic and draw underwear on the natives.
- Go shopping. Buy everything. Sweat in them. Return them the next day.
- Drive to work in reverse.
- Read the dictionary backwards and look for subliminal messages.
- Start a nasty rumor and see if you recognize it when it gets back to you.
- Bill your doctor for the time you spent in his waiting room.