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Managing your stress
- 1. Managing Your Stress
- 3. Definition • Stress isdefined as an individual's total response to an environmental condition or stimulus, also known as a stressor – Wikipedia
- 4. Good News • Anybodycan reduce the stress up to 85% or more in the long term • You can reduce 15%-20% of your stress immediately
- 5. Stress is Necessary •It is necessary for life • Makes life interesting and exciting • Essential for higher level of achievement • Can convert thoughts into action • Exciting – Horror movies, Mountain Climbing, Racing • We become stimulated, thrilled & lively • Too much stress is detrimental • Too little is disastrous – boring life, retired life,
- 6. Reaction to Stress Menare disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen- Greek Philosopher – Epictetus The manner in which one chooses to interpret, react to and handle a perceived stress can very often be far more damaging than the actual stress could ever be on its own.
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- 8. Our goal shouldbe not to eliminate stress but to learn how to manage and use it to help us.
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- 11. Prioritize Things • Reducethe un-important and urgent from 80% to 20%. • Discriminate important and unimportant things • Allocate more time for important things and not urgent things
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- 13. Focus 1 Thing1 Time • Do not overwhelm yourself with entire workload • Pick out few things & deal with them • Concentrate on one activity • Finish one by one
- 14. Reduce workload • Cancel/avoid/give-upunnecessary and unwanted activities/tasks. • Postpone your activities. • Delegate some of your work. • Find alternative. • Change your method of doing the job.
- 15. Watch Body Clock •Identify your Body Clock • Discover your peak performance time - Morning, evening, night. • Assign the work to match your body clock.
- 16. Learn to Forget •Do not remember bad memories • Do not amplify hurts/worries • Imagine nothing happened • You can deceive your mind & heart
- 17. Learn to Accept/Lose •If a problem is beyond your control and cannot be changed, don’t fight. • Accept it at that moment and later you may change it. • Practice to take-up defeat. • Life is Game to Play • Allow others to win
- 18. Laugh a lot • Learn to Smile • Laugh a lot and make others laugh • With laughter stress will fade away • Wherever appropriate smile • Smile cost nothing • Humor is a wonderful stress reducer, an antidote to upsets. Laughter relieves tension.
- 19. Share Feelings • Talkto someone about your worries. • Share your feelings with the person closer to you in a limited way • Develop support group
- 20. Non-competitive • Life isnot a contest • Never compete with others • Don’t compete unnecessarily • Compete with yourself
- 21. Do not React •No need to react to everything • No need to listen to all or watch all TV programs. • No need to read all the newspapers. • No need to have more friends. • Reduce material things and items. • Be more realistic • Be good to yourself
- 22. No need toControl the world • Eliminate the temptation of control. • Lack of control is not a failure • You don’t need to control all the people, their behaviour, events, activiti es all the time.
- 23. Reward & Celebrate •Even for small successes, celebrate. • Promise yourself a reward for completing each task. • Indulging reward- – Indulge yourself and reward • Review your success
- 24. Check your Ego •Learn not to get angry • Keeping cool increases brain’s performance • Learn to admit Mistakes • Others will admire your honesty • Accept criticism • Do not take it personal – rather use it as areas of developent
- 25. Maintain Good Health • Get enough sleep – Lack of rest aggravates stress – Sleep and wake up early – Consistency in sleeping hours – 7-8 hours sleep is must • Indulge in physical exercise • Learn to Meditate/Yoga
- 26. Improve Habits • Developnew hobbies – music, gardening, pai nting • Avoid highly stimulating products like Coffee, Heavy intake of Alcohol, Smoking
- 27. Use methods thatsuit you • There is no universally accepted method to reduce stress. • All tips are not same and work well for different people. • Identify the best method that suits you and practice that. • By strictly practicing the above methods you might reduce your stress level by 15% to 20% immediately.
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- 29. Thank You Anil Sachdeva [email protected]