Unwind! Quotes

“He who is different from me does not impoverish me—he enriches me. —Antoine de St. Exupery”
― Michael Olpin, Unwind!: 7 Principles for a Stress-Free Life

“For example, you can help avoid the stress of financial insecurity by living within your means and saving for the future. You can also get a solid education and qualify for a well-paying job. The basic principles of economics can’t be violated without stressful consequences.”
― Michael Olpin, Unwind!: 7 Principles for a Stress-Free Life

“The moment you think the problem is outside of you, that thought is the problem.”
― Michael Olpin, Unwind!: 7 Principles for a Stress-Free Life

“خلال الفجوة بين الحافز والاستجابة، تكمن قوتك في اختيار استجابتك الخاصة.”
― Michael Olpin, ‫تخلص من التوتر‬

“The best way to reduce stress is to stop screwing up.”
― Michael Olpin, Unwind!: 7 Principles for a Stress-Free Life

“When people can capitalize on their differences instead of defending themselves from differences, we get creative solutions to stressful problems.”
― Michael Olpin, Unwind!: 7 Principles for a Stress-Free Life

“Mindfulness implies that we cease consuming the present by beating ourselves up over the past and the future. Remember, we can focus only on one thing at a time. The present moment, here and now, is not stressful. The past and the future can be. But you have a choice about which one you want to think about.”
― Michael Olpin, Unwind!: 7 Principles for a Stress-Free Life

“What am I seeing right now? What am I hearing right now? What am I sensing right now? What am I tasting right now? What thoughts am I having right now? In essence, what am I currently experiencing?”
― Michael Olpin, Unwind!: 7 Principles for a Stress-Free Life

“Essentially, if you’ve been telling yourself all day that you should be escaping some nonexistent threat, the smartest thing you can do is follow through on that message and run—or do whatever type of aerobic exercise you prefer.”
― Michael Olpin, Unwind!: 7 Principles for a Stress-Free Life

“There are lots of good things to fill your schedule, but they may not all be the best things. As Dr. Covey said, “You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smiling, nonapologetically—to say ‘no’ to other things.”
― Michael Olpin, Unwind!: 7 Principles for a Stress-Free Life

“We activate the stress response when we send our minds into the future or the past and include threat thoughts into the mix of those future or past thoughts. Worrying, for example, involves thinking of a future event and including a painful scenario in the stream of future thoughts. Regret is essentially doing the same thing but in the opposite direction, into our past.”
― Michael Olpin, Unwind!: 7 Principles for a Stress-Free Life

“Both men and women struggle with too much stress. Women, however, may be more sensitive to its damaging effects. Females have busier brains and stronger empathy, intuition, forethought, and self-control—but with those strengths also come a greater capacity for worry.”
― Michael Olpin, Unwind!: 7 Principles for a Stress-Free Life

“Then the science started telling us more about stress. In 2011 came the results of a study at Stanford University that had followed 1,548 ten-year-old children for ninety years. One of the big conclusions was that lack of anxiety was associated with early death. Apparently, we need some stress in life: The “don’t worry, be happy” people die early because they underestimate the risks in their lives and tend to make poor decisions.”
― Michael Olpin, Unwind!: 7 Principles for a Stress-Free Life

“We have the power to choose our response to any stimulus.”
― Michael Olpin, Unwind!: 7 Principles for a Stress-Free Life

“We typically seek first to be understood. Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply. They’re either speaking or preparing to speak. They’re filtering everything through their own paradigms, reading their autobiography into other people’s lives.”52”
― Michael Olpin, Unwind!: 7 Principles for a Stress-Free Life

“If things go wrong, don’t go with them. —Roger Babson”
― Michael Olpin, Unwind!: 7 Principles for a Stress-Free Life

“I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I was still alive.”
― Michael Olpin, Unwind!: 7 Principles for a Stress-Free Life