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Managing Stress in a Fast-Paced World - Enjoying a Busy Life
Stress in Today's World
If you feel overwhelmed by stress, you're not alone. Stress affects most people today, thanks to
our fast-paced world and our hectic lives. But you can learn to view stress as a fact of life and respond to it in positive
ways. That way, you can enjoy having a busy life. Reading this information can help you get started.
What's Causing Our Stress?
Anything that brings on feelings of stress is called a stressor. Today, we often face many
stressors. These may include the following:
- Adapting to constant, rapid change.
- Handling a major life event, such as getting married or moving to a new home. More than one
of these events may happen at the same time. For instance, we may have to deal with a family illness while changing jobs.
- Juggling many roles and responsibilities. We may be a spouse or a life partner, a parent, a
friend, and an employee. We may also be caring for aging parents.
- Going from one stressful situation to the next without taking time to relax.
- Being overwhelmed by the technology designed to help us. Staying ahead of our pagers, cell
phones, computers, E-mails, and fax machines can be hard to do.
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"Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
32nd president of the United States
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Is the Pace of Life Too Much for You?
Life was hectic enough even when Franklin D. Roosevelt was president. If only he could see
today's fast pace! He would notice people racing around with high-tech gadgets, while juggling their many daily tasks. Life has only continued to speed up. In fact, we may often feel
we're caught in a tornado. At times, our lives seem to be whirling out of control. When this happens, the competing demands
of work, home, and family may seem more than we can handle. Read on to find out how stress affects you and how you can
gain control.
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