Keeping things in perspective 
Attitudes to change
Being in Control
When you are in control of your life, you can control the level of stress you face. When you are out of control and unable to schedule events, then you cannot prevent stress building on top of stress. You will experience unpleasant peaks and troughs of stress. The feeling of being out of control is unpleasant and stressful in its own right.Being in control of your life is largely a matter of attitude.
Often the difference between being in control and out of control comes down to making an investment of a little of your free time in planning. An effective method of doing this is to use personal goal setting. Mind Tools LifePlan shareware will help you to do this. It starts by helping you to choose your long term life goals. Then it provides a framework for working out a series of lower level plans ending in a list of jobs to do today to meet your lifetime goals...
By planning you can anticipate problems in advance. This helps you to work out how to prevent or avoid a problem, or anticipate and exploit the positive elements of a situation.
Some of the most satisfying and enjoyable work you can do is work that you choose to do to meet your own long term goals.
Part of this process of planning and goal setting should include self-improvement goals. If you have identified areas of your personality that you should improve, then you can set goals to do this. This can include work on improving your self-image, being realistic about your faults, thinking positively, learning from mistakes and taking satisfaction from your successes.
