What Do You Stand For?
What’s acronym of your name?
Years ago when my niece was about 10 years old. She was crying softly, walking to me and says..
She said “Uncle Paiboon, my friend called me FAT, they said ‘You are fat’“
My niece is chinese girl who had cute chubby look, to me she’s very pretty and cute.
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PS: 29 Dec, I went through my 2005 pictures gallery and found my niece’s picture. So, I’ve update this post to put her picture in here.
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As you know every behavior has positive intention, so I replied.
I replied: “Well… sometimes, when people call you the way you don’t want, it might feel uneasy”
In my family, we don’t lable a child or name calling him/her. And I believe that I can’t change bad children but I can change bad behaviors.
She said: “I don’t like the way they say that, and I’m reducing my weight now. But I know they didn’t really mean that, they just want to have fun with me”
Paiboon: “If they were to mean something good for you. What is it stand for, what’s FAT stand for, What’s ‘F’ stand for?”
She think for a while “Fabulous”; she shouted
Paiboon: “How about an ‘A’ and ‘T’ ?”
She said “Awesome and Tantalizing” (Sometime, I got surprised by 10 years old girl vocabulary)
Paiboon: “Great!!!”
She said “Yes, I am Fabulous, Awesome and Tantalizing. I am F.A.T. I am F.A.T”
Here is some of my friends’ name… acronym:
Bob = Best Of the Best
Baba = Big Ambitious Bold Achiever
Teck Yin: Talented Energized Cool Kick-ass Young Inside Never-giveup
Sarah: Sincere Angle and Reflesh Again and Again Heroine
Salleh: Splendid Ageless Lucky Leader Empowered Honesty
What do you stand for? Make it COOL 
I really enjoyed this post. It’s easy to forget how powerful our physical reactions are! I like your approach here. Especially reminding the reader that we are not always ready for change — though we think we are! I agree that the real failure is letting fear stop us. Thanks for posting this!
Hi Julie,
Thank you for your kind words. I am glad it was helpful! “Coping with Stress” is a part of a series of articles on Stress that I have written, hopefully Life Coaches Blog will be posting the rest. So keep in touch!
Kindest regards,
Karen
This is a great article. I especially like the list of symptoms… some of which a lot of people may not recognize as a sign of stress.
It’s also important to continue with your stress managment activities even when there are no signs or symptoms of stress. Doing this will help you become stressed less often and ward off stress before it even begins.
Hi Jill,
Absolutely, it should be a way of life! Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts.
Kindest regards,
Karen
Hi,
Great site!!!!! Good health is very important with the high cost of medical coverage. We need to have a healther lifestyle by taking care of our health eating and exercising. I am a cancer survivor and I know. Our health is our greatest asset. Keep up the Good Work!!!!!
The physical body does not differentiate between happy stress and overwhelm. Stress is stress. We need to develop coping mechanisms in our daily life to avoid the harmful, physiological effects of stress.