What’s your story?: Stress and life’s Roller Coaster ride

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Life is a Roller Coaster Ride:Fasten your seatbelts

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What goes down, also goes up

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You’re not alone: Faith, Family, Friends

He is with you wherever you are (Quran 57:4)

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Hang a nicer image, tell a nicer story, show a better video of the event to yourself.

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Feedback is a gift, complaining is not: The difference is the negative energy between them.

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Get a high: Exercise

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Try to keep a balance: Money is just one spoke in the wheel.

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Some adages just don’t apply• Happily Ever After• Life is fair• Just follow your passion• Grown men don’t cry• Words don’t hurt

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Switch off the news and statistics: Turn them on their heads

• 50% marriages end in divorce:. That’s an old number. Reality is unless you’re higher risk, get married very young, <~20, didn’t graduate from high school, low-income, have divorce in family, nag, not committed, inter-cultural or faith marriage, it doesn’t apply

• 10% of people are unemployed: Turn it around 90% are employed and there are so many jobs and opportunities, there is one just waiting for you to find.

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Take a 5 min break on the hour, every hour Our lives were not meant to be static,

repeating the same workday and doing the same work over and over.

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Have big dreams and wear larger than life glasses: That way you see

things as they are and better than they are.

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Look for inspiration; The Guest House by Rumi

This being human is a guest house.Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness,some momentary awareness comesAs an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!Even if they're a crowd of sorrows,who violently sweep your houseempty of its furniture,still treat each guest honorably.He may be clearing you outfor some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice,meet them at the door laughing,and invite them in.

Be grateful for whoever comes,because each has been sentas a guide from beyond. 13Javed Mohammed

Reframe: Not why me? But I am a creative problem solver!

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Your life is a novel, just share short stories a minute at a time.

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What’s your story?

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References• All Images are copyright of respective holders• The Bounce Back Book by Karen Salmansohn• Riding the Roller Coaster by Javed Mohammed• What Color is your Parachute By Richard Bolles• http://marriage.about.com/od/divorce/tp/highrisk.htm

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