Today's Stress Tip..by G. Gaynor McTigue..FRI.7/15/05

If you don't need to check luggage...don't.

Are you one of those notorious over-packers? Do you feel compelled to cover yourself for just about any contingency? Does most of what you bring along return home untouched? Maybe you don't mind hauling half your wardrobe on a 2-3 day business trip or weekend getaway. But with today's long baggage check-in lines, multilevel security checks, delays at pickup carousels, and the constant threat of lost luggage...it pays to take it on board. For once, let go the urge to over-pack and see if you can't make do with just what you need -- neatly tucked into a carry-on, supplemented by a purse or briefcase. Avail yourself of hotel laundry services if necessary. But once you've had a taste of the walk-on/walk-off ease of not checking luggage, you won't want to travel any other way. Why make yourself crazy?

Based on G. Gaynor McTigue's acclaimed book Why Make Yourself Crazy? featured in major publications and on talk shows across America.
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Don't deny yourself occasional "sprawl" time.

Sprawl time is that unplanned, spontaneous time when you almost involuntarily disengage from an arduous task to flip through a magazine, lapse into a conversation, putter around aimlessly, or drift off into a reverie. Don't chide yourself on such occasions. Or feel guilty you've put time to no worthwhile purpose. Quite the contrary. Look at these interludes as circuit breakers, telling you to ease up and rest a bit or you'll burn yourself out, become irritable, frustrated, overstressed. Rather than resist, let your mind and body welcome these relaxing breaks from the unrelenting grind. Why make yourself crazy?

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