Mono

Customer Retail Associate

What's your best method to blow off steam?

Whether if a prospect ghosted you after multiple sessions, you are having difficulties learning a new skill/topic or just personal matters, what's your best method method to blow off steam?

In my case, after recollecting multiple can tabs for years (don't get me wrong, I love beer but it's also easy to get them for me from relatives), whenever I feel anxious or stressed about something, I make a little cut in them and link them together in order to create a chain. After plenty of years, it's already like 6 FT long. I am not too crafty of a person nor it's something that I do every day, but I must say that it works for me during though times!

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🤗 Self-care

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TennisandSales

Politicker

Head Of Sales

this.....is a new way to blow off steam thats for sure 😂

If im blowing off steam I tend to NOT do something that requires alot of focus.

normally just staring at my computer screen and rage scroll through linked in....you know, like normal ppl do.

Mono

Opinionated

Customer Retail Associate

Right, beside the 2 fingers that I'm missing from it (jk), there's not a lot of focus to the chain thing. I guess it helps me to reach that blank mind state where people can let go things they have stuck in their head.

boredAnti

Tycoon

That One Guy

Sit down and read a book, go for a walk, play a game, something physical. I have found that I can have a lot of outlets that tend to work well for me.

DevSomeBiz

Valued Contributor

Senior B2B Sales Guy.

I live in a 100 acre forest. Lunch is spent on an Adirondack chair in the sun with the family. Complete mental reset.

Mono

Opinionated

Customer Retail Associate

That's sounds amazing! Being able to scape so easily to the nature it's a huge advantage

Kosta_Konfucius

Politicker

ERP Sales

Going for a run always helps me

Telehealth_2the_Moon

Notable Contributor

Director of Business Development

Going on a walk, without my phone, and just being present for the 5-10 minutes I'm walking. This does wonders for me when it's time to sit back down and work.

CuriousFox

WR Officer

🦊

Yup. It's the disconnection that allows you to reset.

Sunbunny31

Arsonist

Sr Sales Executive 🐰

I ONLY take my phone when I'm at the end of a deal cycle and timing is critical. It's better than not leaving the house at all in those cases.

jefe

Arsonist

🍁

Walking the dog.

Also working out.

Filth

Tycoon

Live Filthy or Die Clean

I live and work by a great lake...I drive with either complete silence or very aggressive and loud music (anything but country) to the lake. Once there I scream obscenities the kind that would make a priest stop diddling and a nun blush.

I started this with walks and my now wife during the Covid of 2020 (locked in a house with me and 3 kids requires some proper venting) and I like raging into the watery void. Bonus points if someone walking/exercising jumps thinking they are about to be serial murdered by a psycho when I unceremoniously start screaming out of nowhere.

Also, proving my dominance in mil-sim BRs on the PC.

butwhy

Politicker

Solutions Engineer

I take boxing classes. Been doing it for a decade, and my new place has mannequins that feel soooo goooddd with a jab to the face.

And wine. Boxing and wine.

Sunbunny31

Arsonist

Sr Sales Executive 🐰

Leaving the house and the electronic leash behind, and going for a long hike on a nearby nature trail.

Though your chain is very unique! I only have a giant rubber band ball I made from scratch to compare to your effort.

Mono

Opinionated

Customer Retail Associate

I might upload a picture for it to share it with you guys, just need to get up and look around the house for it! But hey, the rubber ball it's also cool

Sunbunny31

Arsonist

Sr Sales Executive 🐰

Would like to see the chain! So +1 for an image upload.

Pachacuti

Politicker

They call me Daddy, Sales Daddy

that's a unique way to do it @Mono
Personally I work out...a lot. Mountain biking is often my goto.

HappyGilmore

Politicker

Account Executive - SMB

Going for a walk outside or doing a workout are my personal stress relievers

SaaSam

Politicker

Account Executive

Reloading ammunition, building/working on firearms, shooting. All things I enjoy doing that allow my mind to wander, minus the last one. That I do because it's impossible for me to be angry while throwing rounds down range.

storeboughtguac

Personal Narrative

Business Development

mental rest - a run in the woods - and a LOUD scream -

SADNES5

Politicker

down voters are marketing spies

Colonist.io it's Online Catan. I play a 20 minute very fast game and all my worries are gone.

salezkween

Opinionated

Enterprise Account Executive

Vigorously clean your house