How do you deal with stress...

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Great comment and one that I forgot to add. I got a kettle bell and some resistance straps (not the bands) and while I dont use them as mich as I should, they are immensely helpful in releasing negative energy and calming your mind down

 

That's why I think the best way to avoid / control stress is to control what you can control. I know where I'm gonna park at least the night before I leave. I know what time I need to get up in order to arrive an hour early. I know that if I get up at 5 or 6, I can easily be parked in 12 hours and I'm not doing it in a crowded lot or in the dark. If I'm going through or to a big city, I know how to get to my destination and what it looks like before I leave........and I'll happily get up at 4 am to miss the traffic. There are so many navigational and operational tools at our finger tips if we simply chose to use them.
Everything else, I'll get there when I get there. And just because you're in a bad mood, don't mean I got to be. Just let it go and slow down.
And one last tip, the OP mentioned getting stressed out and lost and turning down a bad road. #1 piece of advice; if you're lost, stressed out, late for your delivery, and everything is going wrong.......STOP. Just stop and regroup. You'd be amazed how well that works.

 

You have a therapy puppy?

 

Mmmmm, iced-tea - good call!

 

Driving is a small part of my job but I just roll with it. I'm human and only one guy. I'll get to the job when I get there and if someone doesn't like it, tough. Not gonna rush and stress myself out because the roads are a sheet of ice or because someone crashed and blocked the road for 45 minutes.

 

Long Island Ice Tee ?

 

About the only thing that stresses me is some of the idiots on the road.
Everything else I just go with it....I work for a really stress free company.

No matter what it is just another day...some better than others.

 

Whether I'm tired or "Stressed", the way I deal with everything is thru music. I have always had a big sound system in my truck. But it's my truck, I know many companies don't allow it. But this is the way I deal with it, "JUST CRANK IT UP".......