Learn An Easy A Shortcut To Stress ManagementTo many of us, our work triggers stress. Since stress is unavoidable in life, it is important to find ways to minimize and prevent stressful incidents in order to avoid the negative effects of stress. We can try some of these strategies: 1) Master efficient management of our time Among the techniques that we can use to improve our time management skills are the following: §Keep a record of how we spend our time for work, family, and leisure §Prioritize our time by rating tasks by importance and urgency. Redirect our attention to activities that are important and meaningful to us. §Manage our commitments by not over or under committing. Never commit to what is not important to us. §Deal with procrastination by using a day planner. Break large projects into manageable activities and set short-term deadlines §Examine our beliefs to reduce conflict between what we believe and what our life is like. 2) Develop healthy coping strategies With this information, we can work on transforming unhealthy coping strategies into healthy ones. These improvements will help us focus on the positive aspects and direct our attention to the different things that we can change or control in our lives. 3) Consciously choose a healthy lifestyle §Have a sense of purpose in life 4) Solicit social support 5) Change our thinking patterns These emotions trigger stress, just as an actual threat does. How we deal with negative thoughts and see things can help reduce stress. At the onset of stress, we should be vigilant and catch ourselves from engaging in negative thoughts to help eliminate stress. We can also use a problem solving process that will help identify all aspects of a stressful event and find ways to deal with it 6)Change your communication style Even writers experience stress although they are just using their hands to do the talking. For some people, waiting for 7 or 8 hours is already stressful enough. We should find innovative ways to relieve stress. Indeed, stress is one unwanted visitor to the lowly-employee in charge of the mails, the CEO of a large organization, or average working parent. Try these strategies and boot out stress from in our homes, most especially in our lives. |