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Sometimes don't you just want to stop and smell the roses when suddenly reality sits in. Reality is that you are sitting on an Interstate in backed up traffic watching the heat rise off the hood of your car. Then you begin to ask yourself. Is it really worth sitting in all this traffic to get where I want to go. Point of the matter is that unless you sit through the traffic you are certainly not going to get to your destination without traveling that particular road.

I have found that symptoms of stress can appear almost anywhere you are considering the circumstances or your train of thought.
It use to be that I would stress myself worring about small things. I use to be such a perfectionist about everything. One day I suddenly realized that the stress in my life was coming from none other than my own self. I was my own worse enemy. From that day forward I took a vow to myself that I would not let things in life surface the stress. Instead I would reconstruct my own behavior and teach myself to "smell the roses"...

I got rid of my cell phone and the annoying where are you, will you pick this up for me calls. I turned off all the telephones in my home. I only now have an answering machine that the volume is turned to its lowest level. I check the answering machine only when I walk by that telephone now. Also I rarely listen to messages. Instead I just call the person back at my own pace.

When driving I take the backroads, those least traveled to avoid the traffic. I don't drive at certain times of the day either. I don't even keep a bank account balance any longer. I only use cash or a debit card which I put money in to be used for a specific purpose. No longer do I ever have to pay an NSF because I did not keep an accurate balance of my account. I no longer boil all the water out of a pan on the stove when making tea. I instead use an automatic coffee pot. Now the chance of catching the house on fire has been reduced along with the stress in my life.

From time to time I get in my car and drive across the state line..I have found it to be refreshing just to leave my home state and to travel to another state even if just for a few hours. Somehow this refreshes me and when I return home I am ready to start life all over again with what ever is next on the list.

And when I am at the grocery store I buy my own self flowers..after stopping to take time to smell their refreshing fragrance.

Life is too short to let stress do you in. Instead you have to take control and charge of your own life. Do not let others control and dominate you. For some reason some people just love to inflict stress on others.

I call this stress reduction approach, "stopping to take time to smell the roses" and it works!

Next time you find yourself getting stressed think of this example. Life does not have to be as hard as we make it upon ourselves. Instead we can achieve the same results just in a less stressful way.

My challenge to you is to stop and take time to smell the roses...and increase the quality of your own life today.

About the Author:
Gayle Haynes the opportunity to freely express herself through the channel of writing. She majored in Marketing and minored in management and English in college. From there she went on to write music, anthology, books and plans to write screenplays. Creativity is a God given gift. Taking something that is nothing and making something out of it. She loves life and dilligently works to make the most she can our of hers. At the same time she shares her knowledge from the school of hard knocks to help others have a higher quality of life.