Choice Corporate Housing Management Guide
Stress Management Tips - How to Manage Stress by “Taking it Easy”
By Prashant Mangalampalli
Article published by Choice Corporate Housing
“Taking It Easy” is one more of the several rules to beat stress in its own game.
As they say, the key to reducing stress is to prevent it. And the key to prevent it is to take stock of how we feel about things, and how we react to external stressors.
“Taking It Easy” is probably the easier of the stress management tips; yet not many people take full advantage of all the stress tips provided here. Too many people get stressed out unnecessarily, by not taking things easily enough. Here are a few stress tips that help you get into the “easy mode” of life, by focusing on taking things just a bit easy:
* Don’t set rigid rules for yourself. Be flexible. Compromise. Don’t be a perfectionist, if it means tying your self esteem to all those rules, or stressing out on little itsy bitsy things.
* Let each day and each moment come by in its own pace. Learn to take things as they come by. As Mahatma Gandhi said, “There is more to life than increasing its speed.”
Things didn’t go as planned? Make a new plan. Realize that nothing in this world is written in stone. Remember the old adage “If anything can go wrong, it will”? Don’t be too shocked when that happens.
* Don’t resist change when it comes knocking your door. Instead, welcome it, and embrace it. Change is the way of nature. By not adapting to change, you are naturally not adapting to life.
* Don’t be overly concerned about affairs of other people. If they haven’t told you about it, chances are they didn’t think it concerns you. This is one stress contributing factor we all can do without easily.
And don’t be too hard on their mistakes either. Realize that a mistake just makes them as much a human as you are.
* Feel like things are moving too fast, or you are working too hard? Slow down, take a step back, and try looking at the big picture. The big picture being what is ultimately important to you in your life.
How much does what you are doing right now, matter in the long run? How much would it benefit the big picture? At what cost are you doing it? Is the effort you are putting in right now, worth the price you are paying or may pay for it later? Would it hurt the big picture if you slow down a bit? What’s the worst that can happen if you did slow down? You can and must work hard at times to get to your goals, of course, but never lose sight of the big picture.
* Feel like there are too many things to handle? Don’t multitask in an effort to finish everything at once. Instead, prioritize. And do only ONE thing at a time, based on the priority.
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January 21 2009 | Choice Corporate Housing and Choice Corporate Housing Inc | Comments Off