On a day when you are being pulled ten different ways
a day in which you are leading a meeting
and your cell phone and your landline phone both ring simultaneously
because you’re supposed to sell your mom’s house next month
but now there’s a problem and two separate people are calling about that problem
but also another problem,
and you would send the paperwork one of them wants
but you used up all your paper copying your taxes
… then use this life hack I just discovered today.
Go into the bathroom and sing along loudly with Don’t Stop Me Now by Queen.
It’s the perfect song for when your brain is whirling eight ways from Sunday. Sure, you’d think you want a song that’s calming, soothing, but you really need a song already in sync with the breakneck beat of your heart. And it needs to be a song with lyrics about how you are traveling at the speed of light, and how much fun it is being a rocket ship on your way to Mars on a collision course.
It’s really satisfying. Turns your outlook right around.
5 responses to “There’s No Stopping Me”
I am glad that worked, and hope the problems resolve, and AUGH there is enough going on in the world we don’t need *individual* problems as well!
KC – the list of stressors bumped from four to five just this morning. But, a four car pileup versus a five car pileup? Is there a difference?
AUGH. I hope it all resolves soon so you can get back to normal levels of pandemic stress and Ukraine stress and work stress…
Re: additional causes of stress: sometimes there’s a difference, sometimes there isn’t, you’re right. (but sometimes there is *definitely* a “straw that broke the camel’s back” moment; on the other hand, sometimes it tilts right on over from stressful to “completely ridiculous and I can’t fix it so it’s just going to have to do its own thing and I’ll hopefully find the story funny someday.”)
KC – it should be ridiculous by now, but it is not.
I am sorry it is not yet ridiculous, and I hope you find good coping mechanisms soon *or* that all the irritants go POOF and get resolved! (not implying that you’re not coping well. But it is hard and I would like it to not be hard!)