Managing your stress levels

Stressed-out professionals: trying to figure out how to manage your stress levels? Forbes Councils Member, Brian Tait, wrote an article on managing stress levels. Here's a summary:

• Stress is unavoidable

• Even though not possible to eliminate, there are some effective techniques to manage it

• Get to the root of the stressor and learn how to manage the stress.

Possible roots of stress:

• decision-making

• a presentation

• the death of someone

• any health problem

Effects of stress:

• lack of sleep

• irritation

• constant agitation

• health problems

• alters mental state of mind

• hinders power to think with clarity

• hinders ability to work well

• hinders ability to live in the moment

Ways to manage stress

• change your mindset toward a certain thing that's affecting your state of mind

• try to change the situation

In order to develop effective stress management techniques, you should pay heed to these subcomponents.

1. Flexibility

• try to fight the stress consciously by being flexible

• being flexible means learning to adapt to the situation by considering different outcomes and using the information at hand in your favour

• embracing flexibility grows your capacity to adapt and get rid of certain patterns

Ways to allow flexibility in your life:

• Adapt to change instead of running away from it

• Adapt to a new mentality

• Push yourself to new areas and opportunities

• Never shy away from asking for help

• Adapt yourself in reinterpreting unpredictable situations

• Deconstruct previously held notions and escapist methods

2. Stress Tolerance

• when you learn to build a tolerance to the amount of stress you can take, you end up learning how to cope in a stressful situation

A few techniques for building a tolerance for stress:

• learn to find a middle ground when something overwhelms or stresses you out

• constantly remind yourself why you started a particular thing

• give yourself breaks between busy schedules

• adopt healthy habits, such as running, meditation, etc.

3. Optimism

When you believe in your own abilities, you can develop a greater tendency for managing stress and taking risks

Read the full article for the details.

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