Drink some coffee......

I find this story rather useful and inspiring and i am putting it here incase i forgot the story (or where to look for it in future..)

A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. The conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.
Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain-looking, some expensive, and some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the coffee.
After all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is but normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress.
"Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. In most cases, it's just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups, and then began eyeing each other's cups.
"Now consider this: Life is the coffee, and the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain life, and the type of cup we have does not define nor change the quality of life we live. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee God has provided us."

God brews the coffee, not the cups . . Enjoy your coffee.
Source Unknown -- forwarded by Susan Powers

Be aware that your life is much more than your job. If your job defines you and controls you, you’re very vulnerable to changing circumstances. Jobs will come and go, but that should never change who you are as a person. Make sure you are making deposits of success in your life apart from your job.
4. Humor -- Quality of Life Sometimes we voice an opinion or try to make a point without seeing an obvious application in our own lives. Here’s a classic illustration:
Bill and his wife Mary were sitting in the living room, having just heard about an unfortunate situation regarding a recovering accident victim. Bill looked over and said to Mary, "Just so you know, I never want to live in a vegetative state, dependent on some machine and fluids from a bottle. If that ever happens, just pull the plug."
In one swift move, Mary got up, unplugged the TV and threw out all of Bill’s beer!