Coping With Stress

If you don’t control life, life will control you

12 Pre-emptive Strategies for Coping with Stress!

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If You Don't Control Life. Life Will Control You!

There are many ways in which you can reduce stress. Here are 12 strategies you can use for coping with stress:

  1. Acknowledge your feelings
  2. Seek support from those around you
  3. Be realistic about your results - it will take a little time
  4. Set differences aside
  5. Stick to your budget
  6. Plan ahead
  7. Learn to say NO
  8. Don’t abandon healthy habits
  9. Take a breather
  10. Re-think solutions
  11. Forget about perfection
  12. Seek professional help where appropriate and if necessary

Each strategy involves (Yes, you guessed it!) Positive Mental Attitude and Positive Mental Action

What Can You do Right Now to Cope with Stress?

Here are some tips and actions that you can take right now to help you in coping with stress.

Avoidance

  • Traffic – Avoid the rush hour whenever possible.
  • Colleagues – We all know who they are and what they do.
  • Say No – Avoid taking on extra work. Delegate wherever possible.
  • Lists – Avoid the unimportant. Concentrate on the important.

Behavioral Changes

  • Be aware of changes in yourself and your colleagues. Become aware of how you communicate.
  • Raise awareness of your own feelings and those of your co-workers.
  • Talk to someone – If a behavioral change is noticed, talk to someone about it, preferably someone who you trust.
  • Take risks - Being risk-averse can be very stressful.
  • Manage your time – Don’t let time manage you.
  • State limits in advance - Communicate to co-workers and family members when deadlines are close.
  • If you need some undisturbed time, communicate this to your team.

Accept

  • Talk to a colleague – accept that you may be struggling. Forgive – Don’t hold on to negative thoughts (They are bad!) 
  • Smile – At every appropriate opportunity, especially when communicating. 
  • Learn from your mistakes – Mistakes are part of your growth, if we do not make mistakes we cannot learn. 
  • See stress as an opportunity – An opportunity to change, to change yourself, your work or the environment you work in.

Adapt

  • Adjust your standards.
  • Practice stopping negative thoughts.
  • Practice positive re- framing.
  • Adopt a mantra and repeat it daily.
  • List those things that give you joy, bring pleasure and happiness.
  • Insert humour and fun into the workplace.
  • Try to look at the big picture as often as you can – remove yourself from the battlefield occasionally and look at things from a different perspective.

For further information regarding stress in the workplace, please follow the link where you can find the top ten tips on beating stress in the workplace Workplace Stress Ten Top Tips

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