How to Manage Stress
Stress Is Different For Everyone. One person’s stress someone else might consider excitement!
Stress Is Different For Everyone. One person’s stress someone else might consider excitement! We need to focus on how to manage stress.
It is unlikely that our workday situations are going to change much in the next few years.
Causes Of Stress
These are some of the major causes of stress as recognised by the Health and Safety Executive.
- Longer hours
- Fewer people to do more work
- Higher expectations
So does this mean that we’re all going to go around getting even more stressed than we are already?
Does this mean that the only way we can cope with these pressured times is to quit our jobs and move to the Outer Hebrides?
Stress Is Everywhere
No such luck – there’s plenty of stress in the Outer Hebrides as well – it just looks different.
Of course, there are things that employers can do to help with how to manage stress and to alleviate the causes of stress.
But since no two people are affected by these ‘stressors’ in the same way, no employer is going to come up with a universal solution.
There is only one truism about stress management.
Stress Is Different For Everyone
One person’s stress is another’s excitement.
However, dealing with and stress management can be approached from a different angle.
How to Manage Stress
Try working with stress this way.
Think about what it is you can do to deal with pressure more effectively and how can you better manage the stress you already have?
When you look at it, the fact is that most of us actually manage quite well with an amazingly large amount of stress and pressure.
Unexpected Events
What usually tips the balance is unexpected events:
- A crisis
- A drama
- Something materialising suddenly
- The extras that weren’t planned for
Coping Mechanisms
That’s when our stress coping mechanisms shut down, break down, or go on strike. This is likely to lead to mental health issues including burnout.
Dealing with pressure and stress management is a three-stage process:
Knowing what you cope with well already and how you do that.
Knowing what tips the balance for you.
And preparing strategies for unexpected stress.
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How to Manage Stress
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