Managing Stress

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🗓️ 4 February 2026

⏱️ 6 minutes

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to my morning monologue.
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0:18.6	Remember, you can hear my radio program daily on Sirius XM Triumph and connect with me 24-7
0:26.2	at Dr.ora.com. Stress, very unavoidable part of life. But how the decisions we make with respect to what stresses us, that makes the quality of our life
0:42.5	and our health and all our longevity more in our control. Almost 80% of you say stress negatively
0:52.8	impacts everything in your life. But I've got to tell you, for the most
0:59.0	part, listen carefully, for the most part, being in a stressful situation is voluntary.
1:07.3	You can come up with all kinds of excuses why you can't change the situation, but they're excuses, and yes, you can, but you choose not to. Therefore, you will continue to be stressed.
1:20.1	Coping strategies are very important, but most of you have hoping skills. These are mental games you play with yourself that you're actually
1:32.7	managing stress. Like squashing unwanted thoughts, wishing they would just disappear, clinging to useless strategies,
1:48.1	hoping they will magically work. So ignoring, denying may work for 20 minutes, but not for
1:58.4	the long haul. Believe it or not, one of the best coping skills,
2:07.3	because hoping skills suck. I hope when I marry this person, they will turn nice. Right now,
2:11.9	it's causing me great stress. I hope my mother. I hope my father, I hope my...
2:17.8	Yeah, useless, okay?
2:21.7	Turns out from a lot of studies
2:24.8	that one of the best coping skills is hobbies.
2:30.7	What?
2:33.2	Hobbies?
2:34.4	Coping skill for stress? What? Hobbies? Coping skill for stress?
2:36.1	What?
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