Every entrepreneur, businessman, or even a normal employee suffers from stress, either stress from work, in their personal life or anything else stressing them out. This article’s point is mainly to highlight the overall idea of stress, what causes it, and how to manage it! Let me first tell you briefly what is stress, it’s an emotional tension, it occurs to someone when they’re feeling nervous,angry or frustrated… Read more.
Stress is caused by a huge number of things! You can be stressed because something bad has happened or you feel that something bad is about to happen! It can be caused because you worry a lot or because of bad experience you’ve had in something,but today we are going to talk more specifically about what causes work stress…
Lack of sleep, if you haven’t had enough sleep ( 6/24) at night, your brain won’t function as it should, driving your mind to stress about it,which causes you to stress and not think as you should.
Lack of Prioritization of tasks, “should I get all these tasks done today??!!” Yeah you see? That’s how you stress over work! Who said you have to get all your tasks done in one day? You need to prioritize your tasks in order to be able to do them right! Prioritize, focus, start the job!
Inability to manage your time, most people stress over the idea of not knowing how much would this task take and when should I finish it. This point is definitely related to the task prioritization point, because after you realize which task should be done before which task,you have to put a deadline for each task, it may not be the most accurate at first but it gets better with time,REMEMBER, you are not a computer!
Stressing over meeting the quality expectations, please always put in mind that quality is definitely more important than quantity, but that doesn’t mean you should stress over conducting the highest quality for your work! You should be really relaxed, your mind should be all about the job and start coming out with the best in your mind! Stress doesn’t get you anywhere…
Lack of communication is one of the main reasons you stress over work! Why take it all alone, when you can share it with your boss and team members? That’s why they say the most important thing at work is to have a transparent friendly environment and if you don’t have that… RUN!
We have covered some of the reasons why you may suffer from work stress, but don’t you worry we will not leave you hanging without telling you how to manage it! So here are some things you should do and some tools you should use to manage your stress…
Sleep 6-8 hours per day, the average person needs from 6 to 8 hours of sleep everyday to function right and in a healthy way.
Prioritize your tasks, do that based on deadlines, based on time you have for each task,or based on how much you can conduct per day.
Manage your time, believe me time management is the key to a non stressful work life! Schedule your tasks, time them right,and then you’ve got nothing to stress about!
Do your job right, you don’t have to stress out about how much work you can do in the least time possible, instead, you could get your head in the game,focus on one thing at a time,conduct it in the best quality possible, then go to another.
Communicate, communication makes everything better,it makes everything easier and much more simple. Create a friendly,honest, and transparent work environment so you can communicate with your team.
Everyone out there working a minimum of 8 hours a day have every right to stress out about a bunch of things in their life! But believe it or not ! It’s got a solution,just like everything else. One step of solving any problem is identifying the problem at first, and find out how to solve it; that’s why today we’ve covered some of the main causes of stress and how to solve them out.
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