Stress Relief

Stress Relief ©

By

Michael Casey

First of SHUT UP and GO TO BED. That’s the best piece of advice you will ever get. Having enough sleep is vital,you cannot perform if you are too tired to think straight. So go to bed right now and in the morning come back and read the rest of this. Or go and have sex with your lover then go to sleep.In the morning you’ll be in a better frame or mind.

When I was a hotel worker and the evening crush was on those 2 or 3 hours really flew. But the thing is you have to deal with one person at a time. Look around the crowd and smile before returning to the guest in front of you. Don’t worry, and actual fact slow down a littler, then you will make any mistakes, which waste time. Keep on smiling and then get to the next guest. And yes I speak from experience, I worked on Reception in addition to the 10 other roles I did at CPNEC Birmingham 2002 to 2005.

Love your work mates, don’t fight against them, you are a team even if you do 90% of the work, without the other 10% the task would not be done. And get the idea out of your head that you hate the team, if things are that bad, THEN LEAVE, and set up your own company. Then you will know the meaning of stress. So you also need to be HONEST with yourself, and know your LIMITATIONS.

If you think you should be a model and not just the makeup girl then make a video and show it to the other models, if you they are kind they may encourage you. Remember too the STRESS of being perfect all the time and think could  you put up with newspapers sneaking up on you when you are out walking the dog, or kicking the boyfriend out of the house at 3am.

Stress takes many forms, but the stress you put on yourself can be the worst. So stop and THINK for 5 seconds before you scream at your driver, or bus driver if you are at the poor end of the scale. Having a 5 second pause in your life before you do anything maybe the simplest thing you ever do, but it will bring the greatest benefits.

In today’s Twitter world, it’s Ping v Pong at breakneck speed and I’ve seen firsthand just how fast table tennis can be. By checking things, especially when you have no time to check, you’re too busy to do this or too busy to do that, by pausing you will stop stress before it even happens.

Snappy answers to Stupid Questions was a MAD magazine book back in the 1960s, I know I read it at the time. My point is thought that we all can be too uptight, stop and smell the roses, have a Stella Artois or too. Oggle that boy or girl, let your imagination take you away from the maths (MC=4C) problem that was causing you so much stress.

Though in today’s Me Too world perhaps I should should say glance out the window and enjoy the colours on display in the flower bed, which may be Jim’s red pants on display below his low hanging jeans. But that’s enough to set your heart aflutter, and his smile and the way he brushes his hair out of his eyes, just looking at him is perfect stress relief. SIGH. Instead all you have to relieve you stress our those really irritating photos Michael Casey attaches to his writing. He’s as sexy as Donald Trump wall.

Diverting yourself away from your problem, your STRESS, does work as stress relief. Can you remember what you were supposed to do before you started to read this. Somewhere in Libya today somebody is reading 300 and Not Out in Arabic on my Wordpress site, do you imagine that is Stress relief for them. Though probably it’s a punishment, you have to read Michael Casey now, can you imagine just how stressed out they now are. Their eyes wild and bewildered.

Help I’ve been Michaeled, all their friends sake a step back and maybe point their guns. I mean I’ve been Michael Caseyed, so the safety catch is put back on the guns. Hey man when you said your were Michaeled we thought,he whispers in his ear, the other men laugh. NO, I’ve been reading Michael Casey, we should tell our Arab cousins, then they can all be Michaeled, or rather Michael Caseyed.

And for the rest of the non Arab audience perhaps I should explain as I am Michael Casey. Gill would no doubt explain too as she descends from her camel, just like Sam in Sex and the City film. To be Michaeled means to be led deep into the desert, out of site of all the cities, past the waterhole. Then deep into a sand storm, and just as you think you will die in the desert and you are saying Michael Casey you are little more than what comes from a camel’s backside, but not as useful.

Then and only then will I remove your blindfold, to reveal you are still standing next to the swimming pool. A fan, a few handfuls of desert sand was all I needed to transport you away from your most stressful day. You thought the idiot Michael Casey had abandoned you in the desert. No I’d just Michaeled you, I’d sent your imagination a million miles away from your stress. If you can remember what you were doing before you started to read this then I am something from the back end of a camel, but not as useful. IF however your stress has been relieved then feel free to reward me.

Thanks to all my Arab readers in Libya and UAE too and all other places in the middle, Middle East. This piece has relieved my own stress too, by writing about stress, and that sounds very Irish, but as I’ve told you before my family is Irish. Ireland the home of Stories.