When you are frustrated, mad, tired or insert any other that suits you, a lot of people will tell you think happy thoughts or go to your happy place, etc.

Being that my job has been stressing me out since January I kept resorting to this coping mechanism and at 1st happy thoughts would at least make me smile, deep breathes helped.

But it got to a point where happy thoughts just make me want to say Meh! as deep down I know the happy thought is not big enough to overcome the billion negative ones. Good thing I don’t need to think happy thoughts to fly like Peter Pan or something, because that would be a miserable fail!

So resorting to the happy place, I kept trying to think of that place, and for the most part it’s always been a white sandy beach, beautiful blue water… and as calming as that once was, just thinking about it made me want to be there, and well lets face it until after our big event is over at work there is no going on vacation so my happy place turned to be the the one place I’d rather be but I’m not! grrrr

So I tried to think of another happy place that didn’t involve vacation, and I thought ooooh Spa, relaxing. But how can I think about being relaxed when my shoulders have never been this tense, my head is pounding and my eyes are hurting from looking at those reports? So that’s not going to work either, I decided to go get a facial, didn’t enjoy it because all I could think of was all the pending things I needed to get it done, not quite relaxing really is it.

So where does one person turn to find a happy place when there is so much to do at work, at home, and so on to relieve some stress??

Honestly I have no clue!