Time, Content, STRESS and Burnout!

[Brett_Tabke]

Everytime I read someone moaning that they don't have enough ideas for content, it gives me laugh. I am just the opposite: too much content I want to write, too many ideas I want to put out, a list of 15 more sites I'd like to build, but simply not enough time to get it all done and still manage a business, employees and sites.

How do you folks handle it without going postal?

[fantomaster]

Simple: we work on a 48 hour day!

[Black Knight]

I think I just go postal fairly regularly

If the idea is truly good, but not something I have time for I sometimes give it to a friend for free, just to see it come to life. Does that make any sense?

[Brett_Tabke]

lol email stress is rated as top stress contributor: bbc story

[Brett_Tabke]

The best advice I have heard yet:

"Jolt cola and hersey bars"!

(for our non-american friends, Jolt Cola's advertising slogan is "All the surgar and twice the caffeine" - hersey bars are just chocolate bars)

[mnw]

Jolt is now flavored for those who want twice the caffeine, all of the sugar and none of the cola taste. One of the advantages of living next to a college town. Jolt isn't available everywhere. College towns are the marketing exception

[tedster]

My Mom has a favorite tranquilizer substitute -Dammitol. I take one of these every two weeks or so and spend a day in the woods -- with no electronic devices. The perspective I regain is remarkable.

After all, the essence of our entire culture is disposability. Someday Bic may be making web servers.

**Bic is an American manufacturer of disposable pens and shaving razors.

[bluesriff]

Ah...the power of music. From the time I start setting up for a gig to the time everything is loaded back in the van for the drive home I think of nothing but the music. It's my GREAT escape. Keeps me from getting too sane or too stressed.

[tigger]

When it comes to stress I find my friend Mr smirnoff helps at the end of a hard day, although of recent my poor old K9 pall has been suffering with fits, the medication prescribed by the vet has remakable effects on me and I find running around on all 4's puts a completely different perspective on things, although I still haven't mastered the art of some of the finner qualities a dog has when it comes to cleaning ! WOOF WOOF

[georged]

At the end of a stressful day, I'll switch on my PC at home and play games for an hour or two. Don't know why but everything just melts away when I do this. I used to be a games tester for Ocean Software and very often it would be play, play, play, seventy hours a week for two month stretches. Now it's as natural as breathing to me.

[GWJ]

>the power of music. From the time I start

I sort of agree with Bluseriff. I go into our dungon, the semi-finished basement and close the door. This is my second work enviorment. I have two PCs their. On the non-work PC I fire up some "work" music and crank it up while I work on the other PC. My wife has no clue how I can work like that. It just is natrural for me.

For high stress days a good hour or so of Quake 3 or UT. Amazing what it does for me ;).