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How Can You Reduce Stress On The Job
If you’re proactive about managing your work-related stress, you’ll feel less wound up and enjoy more success at your job and joy at home.
Try these strategies to reduce stress:
- Review all the reasons you do the work you do.
- List the benefits you get from your job.
- Remind yourself, “it is just work,” unless you have a lifesaving job.
- Get to work a few minutes early to give yourself time to settle in.
- Learn to recognize the things you can control at the office.
- Work through “resolvable” issues immediately.
- When you feel overwhelmed, ask for assistance or guidance.
- Establish your work priorities and methodically work to complete your projects.
- Avoid drama at work.
- When you begin to feel stressed, stop to take some deep, slow breaths.
- Think before you speak.
- Use visual imagery techniques to let go of minor annoyances and frustrations.
- Plan your day for tomorrow before you leave today.
- Tidy your desk before you leave.
- Take a brisk 15-minute walk when you get home.
- Soothe yourself after you arrive home.
- Journal your feelings about work.
- Practice pilates, yoga, or meditation to de-stress.
- Enjoy your time off so you can return to work refreshed and ready.
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