With people experiencing so much stress these days and the fact that one can buy a reading on blood pressure almost like people can buy gum from a dispensing machine, it is clear that many people have this problem.

One of the simplest methods for reducing tension is to do everything more slowly, less frantically, and without pressure.

Look at people who are really efficient; they always seem to do things easily, with a minimum of effort. In so doing they release maximum power.

Author Norman Vincent Peale stated, “Every morning after breakfast, my wife and I go into the living room for a period of quietness. One of us reads aloud some inspirational piece to get us into the mood of meditation. It may be a poem or a few paragraphs of a book. Following that we sit quietly, each praying or meditating according to his own mood and manner, then together we affirm the thought that God is filling us with strength and quiet energy.”

A Southern gentleman once was asked what he was doing. He stated, “I am practicing the art of just sittin’ in the sun. Sit here and let the sun fall on your face. It is warm-like and it smells good. It makes you feel peaceful inside. The sun never hurries, never gets excited, it just works slowly and makes no noise — doesn’t push any buzzers, doesn’t answer any telephones. The sun does more work in the fraction of an instant than you and I could ever do in a lifetime.”

People shouldn’t try to do everything at once. That is why time is spread out.

Don’t put off until tomorrow what can be done today. Putting things off makes undone jobs harder.

That’s important in today’s fast-paced world.