Strategies to Combat Stress
General tips
Set yourself a mission
Even if it must inevitably change over the years, this will give a positive direction to your life and increase your personal value.
In the beginning, set yourself short, medium and long term realistic objectives. Adhere to the principle that small gains create the necessary confidence to work up to larger ones. Your sense of personal achievement will then be enhanced from victory to victory. Always remember to reward yourself whenever you reach a goal.
Develop means to develop your objectives
Elaborate a strategy
Having a plan is reassuring as it helps to better evaluate the actions to be taken. Write the plan down. 'Plan your work and work your plan'
Establish and manage priorities
Make a list in order of importance of the tasks to be accomplished in a day, a week or a month, etc. Start the day by the most crucial task. Therefore, if you're short of time at the end of the afternoon, the most important tasks will have been accomplished.
Manage time.
Take 15 minutes each evening to assess the time that will be needed to go through each items on your list of priorities for the next day. Add all times. If the total time exceeds the number of hours that you have planned for your day, look for shortcuts, or eliminate altogether the less important tasks.
Manage details
When an idea occurs to you, add it to your list of things to do. Keep an inventory of things to say or do for each person (especially the difficult ones) with whom you have to frequently deal with.
Commit to exercise regularly
Promise yourself that no matter what happens, you will exercise two or three hours per week. This will help eliminate the excess build up of negative energy. Take the stairs instead of the elevator, walk instead of driving for short distances, play golf, jog/run, etc.
Commit to practicing relaxation
Book at least fifteen to twenty minutes a day to practice relaxation techniques. This will re-boost your physical and mental energies.
Eat healthy food and limit your tobacco and alcohol consumption.
Establish goals to stimulate the left hemisphere of your brain (intellect/memory)
Take courses: music, languages, mathematics, psychology, computer, and so on.
Establish goals to stimulate the right hemisphere of your brain ( creative imagination)
Sing, play a musical instrument, paint/draw artistically, tel stories to your children, etc.
Learn to recognize that your most important task is to take care of yourself
Therefore, treat yourself with respect, humour, adventures, dreams and treasured memories.
Finally, to conclude this segment and to maximize the effectiveness of our programme, the following actions need to be undertaken:
List things to enhance your quality of life
Clarify your personal values
Identify your irritants
Analyze what motivates you
Express your emotions
Learn how to become more sensitive
Accept that, as long as you're human, you will always need tenderness, passion, and personal pride.
Read more at Amazon.ca: http://tinyurl.com/y7x6sf9u
Dr. Pierre Milot, Ph.D., Ph.D. (tc)
General tips
Set yourself a mission
Even if it must inevitably change over the years, this will give a positive direction to your life and increase your personal value.
In the beginning, set yourself short, medium and long term realistic objectives. Adhere to the principle that small gains create the necessary confidence to work up to larger ones. Your sense of personal achievement will then be enhanced from victory to victory. Always remember to reward yourself whenever you reach a goal.
Develop means to develop your objectives
Elaborate a strategy
Having a plan is reassuring as it helps to better evaluate the actions to be taken. Write the plan down. 'Plan your work and work your plan'
Establish and manage priorities
Make a list in order of importance of the tasks to be accomplished in a day, a week or a month, etc. Start the day by the most crucial task. Therefore, if you're short of time at the end of the afternoon, the most important tasks will have been accomplished.
Manage time.
Take 15 minutes each evening to assess the time that will be needed to go through each items on your list of priorities for the next day. Add all times. If the total time exceeds the number of hours that you have planned for your day, look for shortcuts, or eliminate altogether the less important tasks.
Manage details
When an idea occurs to you, add it to your list of things to do. Keep an inventory of things to say or do for each person (especially the difficult ones) with whom you have to frequently deal with.
Commit to exercise regularly
Promise yourself that no matter what happens, you will exercise two or three hours per week. This will help eliminate the excess build up of negative energy. Take the stairs instead of the elevator, walk instead of driving for short distances, play golf, jog/run, etc.
Commit to practicing relaxation
Book at least fifteen to twenty minutes a day to practice relaxation techniques. This will re-boost your physical and mental energies.
Eat healthy food and limit your tobacco and alcohol consumption.
Establish goals to stimulate the left hemisphere of your brain (intellect/memory)
Take courses: music, languages, mathematics, psychology, computer, and so on.
Establish goals to stimulate the right hemisphere of your brain ( creative imagination)
Sing, play a musical instrument, paint/draw artistically, tel stories to your children, etc.
Learn to recognize that your most important task is to take care of yourself
Therefore, treat yourself with respect, humour, adventures, dreams and treasured memories.
Finally, to conclude this segment and to maximize the effectiveness of our programme, the following actions need to be undertaken:
List things to enhance your quality of life
Clarify your personal values
Identify your irritants
Analyze what motivates you
Express your emotions
Learn how to become more sensitive
Accept that, as long as you're human, you will always need tenderness, passion, and personal pride.
Read more at Amazon.ca: http://tinyurl.com/y7x6sf9u
Dr. Pierre Milot, Ph.D., Ph.D. (tc)
Therapeutic Counsellor - Relationship/Grief/Stress Coach - Author
Online - Phone - One-on-one consultations
Info or free evaluation
Canada: 613.360.9917 - USA: 813.515.4875
E-mail: drpierremilot@mail.com
Website: http://www.coaching4life.ca
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