One of the trickier stresses we confront in our day to day life is the stress imposed on us by our workplace. Targets to meet, deadlines to meet, productivity to accomplish, performance reviews to survive – it all takes its toll. Yet, by practicing the following concepts we can dramatically reduce it.
1. Have a Thicker Skin
It is very likely that, despite the best practices that a company might employs to eliminate workplace bullying, an unproductive worker – particularly an unproductive manager – will look for others to shift blame to, for deadlines not met or mistakes made. Higher your standards and make a conscious decision what to react to and what to ignore.
2. Avoid Blaming Ourselves
Inevitably, the lower ranking members of the workplace bear more than their fair share of blame. But with no relevance to our rank or position, an important role in not being our own stress factors is to admit only on wrong things that we actually did and to learn from it for the future. We may not be able to avoid being blamed by others, but this is their story not ours. We can avoid blaming ourselves and the additional stress that it causes by replacing it with learning.
3. Prepare in Advance
Good planning creates clarity and peace of mind. By leaving things to the last moment or not creating more execution options for unforeseen conditions, one will pave the road for stress and mistakes. Detailed planning not only contributes advancing the project but also helps being balanced when disappointing events occur.
4. A second Parachute
Always have reserves. In an already tight deadline it might seems like an unneeded extra safety layer. But like every decent “Murphy Law” when there is anything that can go wrong, it will go wrong. That is why preliminary arrangements can harvest more peace of mind and less stress afterward. No one jumps a plane without a spare parachute.
5. Get rid of Rashness
Have you ever heard that – haste makes waste? Well, now is the time to start implementing it. Since impulsiveness and last minute decisions are not only terrible decision making process and bad to any overall project but also a dramatic stress factors. Making decisions under stress and firm deadlines are a sure formula for confined resolutions and misjudgment. Calculated and relaxed analyzing is good to reduce stress as well for a better brainstorming and plan making.
6. Set-Up Boundaries
Finally, reducing overall stress in your life means: leaving the problems of work behind at the end of the working day. If you achieved all you were capable of at work, there is no point in taking the stress home and letting it interfere with your personal life. Keep workplace stresses restricted to the workplace. It is always easier to do a full day work after a good night sleep, and a good night sleep is easier achieved if one is not worrying about the previous work day events.
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