How To Deal With Stress (part 1)

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Hello Beautiful Ladies!

It's my delight to write on this Space again, I trust you are great! Today I would like to discuss on a very important topic "stress" it's a well-known word even to little kids, you will hear them saying they're stressed. Hahaha 🤣

It's very important to effectively deal with stress, but to be able to do this, you need to think about your physical health, the way you interact with others and your goals and priorities in life - yes what you consider to be the most important thing. In this article I will discuss some principles of dealing with stress and how applying this principles will help you to eliminate stress in life or better still reducing stress.

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PRINCIPLES OF DEALING WITH STRESS:

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🌻TRY TO LIVE ONE DAY AT A TIME: try not to be anxious about what will happen the next day, because daily anxieties is normal and part of life. So don't increase today's worries by adding tomorrow's to them. Try to live one day at a time.

• Stress can induce anxiety: try and recognize that some stress is inevitable. Don't be too afraid of things you can't prevent it will definitely increase your stress level.

🌺 SET REALISTIC STANDARD: don't be a perfectionist, try and avoid setting unreasonable or unrealistically high standards for yourself or others.

• Be modest by setting achievable goals and standards, know your limitations and that of others, doing this reduce stress all round and will even encourage greater success. Another thing is keeping a sense of humor, laugh even when something goes wrong, you will be relieving tension this brightening your mood.

🌷KNOW WHAT STRESSES YOU: Try to stay calm because because negative emotions can be cloud your thinking.

• Identify what causes you stress, and your response. For example when you feel stressed note your feelings, thoughts and behavior, you can even record them because when you're aware of your responses to stress you will be able to deal with it effectively.

• One of the ways you can reduce the impact of stress in your life is managing or tasks and time more efficiently.

• try to see things on a different light, what stresses you may not stress another person, it could be your viewpoint.

• don't be quick to assume that the other person have bad motives. Try and always see things from the positive side of a situation.

• always keep a big picture in mind by distinguishing between minor/short-term issues and long-term/more serious issues.

🍄TRY TO BE ORDERLY: maintain order in your life don't procrastinate because it can lead to growing a long list of unfinished tasks and in return causing you stress. Make reasonable schedule and stick it, then identify attitudes that causes procrastination and correct it.

🌼 PURSUE A BALANCE LIFE STYLE:

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Don't be a workaholic, depriving yourself the benefits of enjoying what you're working for. Have a realistic view of work and money. Having more money doesn't reduced stress or giving you happiness.

• make time to relax, you will be relieving stress by doing things you enjoy. Note not passive recreation like watching TV. Keep technology in it's place.

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CONCLUSIONS:

Applying this few principles in your life will definitely help you to eliminate or at least reduce stress in your life. I hope you find this post educative. In the second edition of this post I'll discuss on more practical principles of dealing with stress. Thanks for reading through!

Written by:
@goodybest