Stress

I hate stress.  Stress stresses me.  The more I stress, the less I sleep, the less I sleep the worse I feel, and the less I accomplish, thus causing me more stress.  Today I finally gave into the stress of feeling overwhelmed at work and cried.  Actually cried.  Okay, I know it probably had to do with hormones (oh how I love perimenopause), but my stress is valid.  I work for an all male seven member board, none of whom want to be in a leadership position... and I need leadership!  I told the president of the board today that my workload is really a 40 hour a week workload, that I have to complete in 25 hours a week. 


After I told him the litany of things I'm working on that overwhelm me, he gave me this sage advice.... He said, "take a deep breath".  And that was all he said.  He didn't offer any solutions, any ideas or ask me what he could do.  Take a deep breath!  Oh yeah, that works.  He scrambled to leave when he saw a chance when another person came to the office and distracted me.  Wow!  His support overwhelms me nearly as much as the stress.


Thursday's Horoscope for me:  Things just don't seem workable to you right now, but that doesn't mean you should give up! Far from it -- now is the time for you step up your efforts and see if you can't pull off a miracle ending.   Okay.  That's just about as good advice as "Take a deep breath"!