on Kyria.com
« When Women Lead Like Women | Main | Recovering the Blessed Alliance »
September 16, 2008Positively Stressed
Tweet
We may never qualify for the Olympics, but we can all learn a lesson from world-class athletes who clamp headsets over their ears as they wait their turn to compete. Whether they're listening to a favorite motivational speaker or inspirational music isn't important. What matters is that they've identified their personal strategy for pumping themselves up and getting their butterflies to fly in formation. These instant pick-me-up techniques blot out distractions, help them focus, and infuse them with a spurt of positive energy.
What works for you? Some people carry a favorite Scripture verse or a few lines of poetry to review immediately before plunging into a stressful situation. Others rely on a funny cartoon that causes them to laugh, and the laughter releases an adrenalin rush that carries them through an ordeal. Each of us needs to determine our individual way of igniting the spark that fires our positive emotions.
To finish this free article, click here.
Tags
- 9/11
- acceptance
- Amish
- anxiety
- anxiety & worry
- anxiety and worry
- authority
- belonging
- body image
- Burdens
- burnout
- busyness
- Busyness
- church
- Church Health
- collaboration
- Commit
- community
- Complementarian
- Confession
- confession
- conflict
- connecting
- Connecting
- creation
- creativity
- culture
- current events
- decision making
- Delegating
- Devotions
- Distractions
- downsizing
- Earth Day
- Egalitarian
- environment
- equality
- failure
- faith
- family
- fear
- follower
- forgiveness
- friendship
- Gender
- gender
- gender roles
- gifts
- God
- Good Friday
- grace
- Grace
- Green Bible
- health
- honesty
- Honesty
- Hope
- humility
- Humility
- hunger
- hurricane
- Infertility
- isolation
- Jesus
- lay leaders
- leader
- leaders
- Leaders
- leadership
- Leadership
- Leavers
- Lent
- memory
- mentoring
- Mentoring
- ministry
- Ministry
- miracles
- Mothers
- New York City
- Organization
- outreach
- over-commitment
- Pain
- passions
- Prayer
- preaching
- prevention
- Pride
- relationships
- remember
- rest
- retreat
- safety
- Satisfaction
- Selflessness
- service
- Service
- sex
- sex & sexuality
- sexual misconduct
- silent
- simplicity
- Sin
- Small Groups
- social justice
- social networking
- spiritual disciplines
- Spiritual Hunger
- Staff
- Strength
- strength
- teaching
- team building
- technology
- terror
- time management
- Time Management
- trust
- Twin Towers
- vacation
- vision
- Weakness
- weakness
- wisdom
- women's leadership
- women's ministry
- worship
