Soothing Strategist Pillows

"Now, now, let's try using our NPR voice."

'I've tried all night without potting a ball.' - 'Try taking away the wooden frame.'

"Haven't you wondered why I live about 50 years longer thank you?"

'Let's go! Let's go! Hustle! ...Relatively speaking.'

"Your blood pressure is too high. Take two of these."

'You should have seen me sooner, Mr. Fenswick.'

"We're making progress."

Workaholics anonymous open all day every day.

The great slingshot of Mongolia.

The night before the big meeting Frank receives a visit from the PowerPoint Fairy

"I'm incredibly happy - must be the medication speaking."

Gracie's Halloween Candy Exchange.

"Then it's settled -- our strategy is to hope for better things."

"My goodness, your back is really knotted up this morning, isn't it?"

"Wel...come...to...my...zoom...meet...ing..."

Goldie playing chess. Check.

'He's just come back from a 'stress management' course.'

The team leader conserved energy at odd moments.

'If you can keep your head while all about are losing theirs...'

'No kidding? You're the bluebird of mutually assured destruction deterrants?'

Think: Everyone's out to get me.

Office talk: 'I deal with stress management the easy way, I let management get stressed while I take it easy!'

Dealing with Change.

"...The sun sank slowly in the west. Time slowed down to a crawl, and there was no reason to hurry. The tortoise knew he had time to kill. Haste makes waste, he thought..."

'Oh, I'm reasonably ambitious about my military career, sir, but I don't want to set the world on fire.'

Don't sweat the small stuff

"We always take one piece out."

'So maybe it is feel-good legislation- What's wrong with feeling good?'

"Do you ever get that 'Monday morning' feeling?"

"Leave me alone, I'm prioritizing my week."

"I had a brainstorm at the Existential Marketing Seminar. What if we did nothing?"

'You say that one day you win and the next day you lose? Why don't you bet on alternate days?'

"I Have so much less stress since I removed the phone and inbox."

'Okay, 20% in cash, 30% in bonds and 50% in stocks--You forgot to include lottery tickets.'

'Honey, you're driving yourself too hard.'