Sherry Nelson, University Outreach and Extension
To relieve stress, try making your own professional humor survival kit with any of the following items:
Positive Mental Attitude -- you make the choice to smile or frown; to be cheerful or grumpy; to compliment or complain. Attitude is a lifestyle.
Rubber Band -- you will stretch your limits, your patience, your flexibility, your endurance. Make sure you have an anchor, that is, a mentor or confidant, to catch you when you snap back...to strengthen you and build you up.
Cotton Swab -- clear you ears and listen well to you clientele and peers, to your supporters and your non-supporters.
Stick of Gum -- to give you "stick-to-itiveness."
Band Aid --if you break something fix it the best you can. Admit mistakes, apologize and heal. Mistakes are stepping stones.
Paper Clip -- to hold yourself together when your world is falling apart.
Lollipop -- to help you lick your problems.
Tootsie Roll -- to help you roll with the punches.
Mint -- to help you realize that you are worth at a "mint" to others.
Balloon -- Get rid of your hot air and anger in the balloon instead of at a person.
Cotton Ball -- to put in your ears when you can’t hear yourself think.
Antacid -- ‘nuff said.
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