Ever come home from your day and your back and neck is tense, you're in a bad mood, and your don't want to do a single thing? Feeling stressed out to the max? Here's some tips to working towards being stress-free!
Stress: Time Management Tips
- If you are usually too busy, leave details to someone else whenever possible.
- Move through your day slowly enough to experience beauty in your enviornment.
- Learn to live with unfinished tasks.
- Leave enough time between activities so you minimize overlap.
- Schedule only as many tasks each day as you can reasonably finish without pressure.
- Leave time in your schedule for the unexpected.
- Leave early enough so you need not rush to get where you are going, even if this means rising 20 minutes earlier in the morning.
- Say "no" to new opportunities or responsibilities if they would overload or rush your day.
- Listen to your inner voice of wisdom.
- Find a work environment that is not chronically high-pressured or hurried.
- Learn to slow your pace of talking, walking, and eating.
- Find time each day to relax, meditate, and excercise.
- Avoid doing more than one thing at a time.
- Tell yourself at least once each day that failure seldom results from doing a job too slowly or too well. But failure is often caused by mistakes of judgement or from too much hurrying.
- Ask yourself at least once each week: Apart from eternal distress and hurry, what is really important to me?
- Measure success by quality, rather than by quantity.
- "Screen out" whenever possible.
- Surround yourself with symbols of tranquility-soft music, plants, soft colors.
- Use your noon hour for deep relaxation, exercise, or something else that will slow you donwn, lift your spirits, and restore energy.
- Find time and space to be alone each day.
- Practice effective listening.
- Ask whether something in fact must be done this minute.
- Use waiting in line to observe people around you and to practice deep breathing.
- Whenever you find yourself jiggling your knees or tapping your fingers, stop and relax.
- Use realistic to-do lists to free your mind from preoccupation with all you have to do and to organize tasks. Prioritize items.
- Stop blaming others for falling short of your day-to-day goals.
- Whenever you catch yourself about to race through a yellow light, turn right and go around the block.
