dealing with responsibilities

Life is full of responsibilities so you will have stress in your life.  You have to learn how to deal with stress.  Responsibilities are stress because when we don’t meet our responsibilities we get stressed. 

Sometimes we just have too much going on and it’s difficult to do everything.  This is something that we all deal with and we have to know how to handle life.  Let’s face it we all need to make money to survive.  Some of us have small jobs and some of us have jobs that are very demanding.  In order to keep our jobs, we have to go to work.  If you own a business, you still have to work hard to stay in business.  If you’re anything like me, sometimes I get tired.  I just don’t feel like going to work sometimes.  I really enjoy working because I love people and I like to communicate but I go to work because I have too.  That’s stressful because I can’t sleep when I want to sleep.   You know how we get when we’re tired and don’t get our rest we get angry.

However, we still have to turn around and put on a happy face.  I do it and I know you all do it too.  That’s just life.  We really spend a lot of time worrying about our responsibilities.  Let’s stop worrying about what we need to do and deal with what we are doing.  That’s very important because people come into our lives and sometimes we ignore them because we think that our lives are too busy for others.  We get caught up in these situations.  We do it right in our own homes.  I found myself ignoring my children at one point because I was working and doing other things.  I realize that all those things will still be there and what’s important is dealing with what God had placed before me. 

We set too many expectations on ourselves and our lives become stressful.  Too many responsibilities will stress you out.  The easy way out of this is to prioritize your life.  Learn organization and do one job at a time.  When we know why we’re here and where we’re going, it’s easy to prioritize your life.  God has helped me get organize and he sent people in my life to help me realize that life is not easy.  The key is organization and having a joyful mind.  Each day we should prepare a things to do list and get organized.  This is something that takes me about 5 minutes.  I have an overall list of priorities in my life and I work from that list.  Even if I do one thing a day, I’m accomplishing something.  Sometimes I don’t even get to the list but I make sure I meet my deadlines. 

When I’m tired or my body feels like it’s done, I don’t’ even think about the list.  I leave it alone.  We have to not worry about things to do.  This is what burns people out .  Sometimes I put everything on hold and spend time with my children.  We have to prioritize our lives.  Each day we should know what we plan to do.  It’s like going to work.  When you go to work, don’t you know what you’re going to do?  This is how we need to handle our day.  Don’t give yourself too much to handle because too much will cause stress.  We will always have things to do.  Life gets busy but deal with your responsibilities with God.  When you do your daily prayer, ask for strength to handle the day.  If something happens that’s out of your control, give it to God.  If we allow stress or our responsibilities to take over our lives, we will never reach our purpose or enjoy life.


STRESS
 
Stress is not good for you
It takes so much out of you too
 
We all experience stress
Especially when our lives are a mess
 
Learn how to handle stress everyday
Because sometimes things won’t go your way
 
Prepare yourself for stressful situations
By staying strong through trials and tribulations
 
Awake in the morning with a smile
Have a desire to make your day worthwhile
 
Don’t worry about tomorrow or yesterday
Take one day at a time, just pray
 
Ask God to be with you each day
To get through all things in everyway
 
We don’t have to have a lot of stress on us
If we know how to put up with all the stuff
 
Live life be happy each day
Don’t allow stress to get in your way
 
Whatever you go through, give it to God
Live for today, don’t make it hard.
 
Know that Stress is a part of life
 
2 CORINTHIANS 4:16
Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.