Stressed?

When you change your mind about stress, you can change your body's response to stress. I like how someone who was helping people get rid of stress for ten years completely changed her outlook after a discovering a few profound studies on stress. I definitely knew that certain stress could be good- it can help motivate and push you to be better or to get things done. But I wasn't aware of the actual physical implications stress had on us. The fact that people who spend much of their time caring for and helping others are at almost no risk for early death due to stress is very interesting, and I like the twist she made by including that information. She compared the compassionate heart to the physical heart, and it definitely made me think. We have much more control over our body's response to certain situations than we are aware of.

Conflict
I have two jobs and go to school full time, and sometimes that gets to be too much. I work 40+ hours a week, most of the time working more than 40 hours in that week. Its nice because the pay off is great, but its taxing because I don't even get overtime or full time benefits. I'm conflicted over choosing which job I would be able to work 40 hours at and not go insane, because I like being able to go between jobs every other day and have a change of pace, different tasks to do. Summer is coming up and I know i have to make a decision soon, but i'm trying to put it off for as long as I can. on one hand, I love all of my coworkers at Imo's and i work with my boyfriend. Its much more relaxed at Imo's and i do love working there. On the other hand, I've worked at Family video for nearly a year now and its become so familiar to me. I have the best manager there who really believes in me and wants me to progress within the company, but that would mean making even more huge life decisions that i'm nowhere near ready to make. I can't even choose a major.. although I do have an idea of what i wanna do with the rest of my life and it does not include selling and renting out movies to sometimes nasty and mean customers. i need to make a decision soon, I know, but i am queen of procrastination and I don't even want to think about how making the wrong decision might negatively affect me.

What do you value more- time or money? A lot of the time, people with a plan can't balance the two out. A busy schedule can be hard to work around when it comes to spending time with loved ones and getting things done that need to be done.

Some people aren't lucky enough to have two jobs that they enjoy and are praised at by their managers. When you're used to being excellent, that can tend to cloud your perspective. I know that having such a busy schedule can be stressful and a little exhausting at times, but would you rather spend your time working towards nothing and not moving forward in life? Choosing between two jobs is a hard decision but you can make the answer simple if you so choose to do so.