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Psychological and physical disorders associated with stress are associated with chronic stress and exhaustion.  Creatures actually die from intense unrelieved stress.  It happens all of the time with men and women who have kept stress and tension within their lives.

In humans, infants deprived of adequate physical and emotional nurturing are considered chronically stressed.  Infants and very young children have died as a result of such deprivation.  Indeed, adults dealing with chronic stress are at higher risk for heart attacks and strokes, which are themselves life-threatening.

The medical community today estimates that excess stress plays a role in 70-90 percent of all health complaints plaguing modern societies.  Realizing the implications of the results of study in this field, researchers at centers around the world continue to build on this research to better understand the nature of stress and how we can cope with it.

One of the biggest complaints about voice mail is that people get too many messages, and it takes too long to listen to them. Here are some tips that can help you deal with this problem:

1. Increase the playback speed of your calls. When you listen to your messages, speed them up so that you can get through them quicker. (This feature may not be available on all voice mail systems or home answering machines.)

2. Limit the length of time for each message. If you’ve got long-winded people, limit the length of time that a person can leave a message to 60, 90, or 120 seconds at most. (When you record your message, tell callers that they have only 60 seconds to leave their messages.)

3. Limit the number of calls your voice mail box can hold. I know this advice may sound like it’s defeating the purpose of the voice mail system, but if you’re getting too many calls, try limiting the number of calls that your voice mail box can hold. When your box is full, the caller will be told something like: “This voice mail box is full.” Now the caller will have to call someone else, call back later, or send a letter or e-mail message.

Most people I know find themselves running to the supermarket at least two or three times a week, and many shop more often than that. Think about how you could simplify our grocery shopping chore and made it a goal to cut by at least half the two or three hours I spent shopping each week.

Type up a list of all the food items you might possibly buy. Then arrange them in the order they appear in the aisles of your favorite grocery store. Run off a couple dozen copies of the list, and keep in one of the kitchen cabinets so a fresh one is there when you need it. It can easily be updated as your eating patterns change.

Before I go shopping, I sit down at the kitchen table and draw up a quick meal plan for the week. Then I go through my computer list and check off the items I’ll need. Since I’m right there in the kitchen, I can quickly see what we’re out of, and note those items on the list.

The entire process, from making the list to doing the shopping to putting the groceries away, takes a little less than an hour, and I almost never have to run back to the store during the week for items I’ve forgotten. Just by keeping a list, we’ve substantially cut our monthly food expenditure, and created more free time for ourselves.

We all have paper we need to save for various reasons, but most of us end up hanging onto it much longer than we should. Find out from your tax preparer, financial advisor, and lawyer what documents you need to keep and for how long.

Since doing this is part of your organization plan. Weigh the cost in storage space and time required to hold onto these documents against the costs involved in recreating them in the event you might need them in the future. What is the likelihood? How difficult would it be to obtain them again?

Make sure to purge your files regularly (every three to six months), using the guidelines your
professional advisors give you. Write on the hanging folder (or attach a note) to remind you.

It’s easy to forget and just allow these mounds of paper to accumulate. If you keep going through them regularly, replacing the oldest year’s with the newest, you’ll still only need the same amount of storage. That means that once you set up storage systems for these long-term records, you’ll probably never have to add to them.

Many home managers neglect to compile a household inventory to be put in their safe-deposit box. If there is a fire or burglary in your home, this record will help you remember what has to be replaced and how much each item was worth. An inventory also must show that you need to increase your insurance because your possessions are worth more than you thought.

The best way to go about compiling a household inventory is to start with a sheet of paper for each room in the house or apartment. Start at one point in the room and go all the way around, listing everything. Don’t forget cameras, watches, bicycles, tools, car, TVs, and stereos. For each item, list what it is, how much it cost, when it was purchased, the model number, brand name, and a general description.

Arrange expensive collections, silver, and jewelry separately and take closeup pictures. Keep one copy of your inventory at home and put a second in your safe-deposit box or give it to a trusted family member or friend.

Make a quick inventory of your wallet by laying the contents out on a quick-copy machine and take a picture. Then turn them over and copy the other side. You will be glad to have such information available if your wallet is lost or stolen.

Keeping a journal is another effective way to be organized and stay in touch with how you want to live your life. A journal can be as loose or as structured as you wish to make it. It can include random reflections and ideas about the world and your place in it, or it can be a formal method of keeping a daily record of your thoughts and feelings as a means toward spiritual growth. 

The journal can be something you write in every day, or you can use it sporadically as the mood and the need arise. It can be a dream journal, an idea journal, a diet journal, a creativity journal, an anger journal, or a health journal. It can be full of thoughts you want to share with others, or as private as you want to make it.

Many local community college and adult education programs offer courses in journal writing. Being involved in a journal-writing class is an excellent way to work with other people who are learning how to use this technique effectively in their lives, and to share ideas on new and different approaches that could work for you. Or just pick up a pen and a notebook and develop your own journal-writing system to help you keep in touch with what’s important to you.

While you are sitting on the floor, look for ways the room could be arranged to make it easier for a little person to manage. What about the bed? Are the sheets, blankets, and bedspread the ones adults think cute or pretty but that are hard for a child to make up neatly? Perhaps a bedspread with cording or a design marking the side edges of the bed is better.

Some children have a washable quilt that can easily be pulled up rather than having a top sheet and bedspread with it. The child can make it by just crawling up to the head of the bed, pulling up the cover, smoothing it, and slithering out.

As you are looking for ways to make the room arrangement easier, ask yourself if the child can hang up his own coat and robe. If not, maybe hooks would be easier than hangers.

You will probably want a wastebasket and some kind of clothes hamper in the room. Shoe boxes in the drawers make terrific dividers to separate socks, underwear, belts, and pajamas. As you sit on the floor evaluating, you will come up with some good ideas, but don’t forget to ask for the child’s opinion, too.

However you organize your shelves, you’ll want to line them with an easy-to-clean liner. Use linoleum! You can buy it in smaller pieces at places like K-Mart. Less expensive than linoleum is Con-Tact paper. It is self-adhesive and lasts years. Drawers and cupboards are a pleasure to wipe out with a damp cloth.

If you’ve never used Con-Tact paper, you may find it a little difficult to handle at first. Cut to size first, leaving backing on. Tear off backing in one corner about three or four inches in diameter. Being careful that the corner is turned up so it does not adhere, fit the sheet exactly. Then place that corner down. Now the paper won’t slip.

Start at opposite side and carefully peel off backing. Be sure sticky sides do not touch each other. Slowly slide your hand around so the paper spreads out and in place. Now lift the other end up - including the stuck corner - and remove the rest of the backing. Smooth paper into place.

Many people have difficulty with their first attempts at laying Con-Tact paper, but with practice you can become adept. If you have a kitchen cabinet with an open space above it, be sure to cover it. It will become really dirty and greasy, but the linoleum or Con-Tact will clean more easily than wood surfaces.

It’s important to understand that there are two main things you can change about yourself that will help you let go of clutter: your attitude and your habits. Neither is easy to change, but of the two changing your attitude is most essential. Change your clutter-attracting attitude, and you won’t have to change as many habits.

Clutter is, at bottom, mainly about attitude. To be free of “stuff stress,” you need to let go of either the attitude that causes you to acquire clutter or the attitude that makes you feel bad about keeping it.

Get in the habit of consciously choosing to limit your intake of potential clutter. Learning to set limits is a crucial part of this process. Start setting limits by practicing saying no to things, offers, activities, and people that use up your money, time, efforts, and energy in unfulfilling ways.

The word “no” has been called the most powerful time management tool ever invented. So work on saying no to incoming clutter of all kinds on a daily basis, and you can start saying yes to whatever you’d really rather spend your resources on.