5 Minutes Each Day To Stress Management

Stress is unavoidable in life, it is important to find ways to decrease and prevent stressful situations and decrease negative reactions to stress. Here are some suggestions that can be done to help you better deal with life’s stresses as life is basically a number of routines. Here are some stress management ideas:

Manage Your Time

Are you keeping a time management log? Time management skills give you more time with your family and friends and can even increase your performance and productivity. As you get better at it, it will allow you to slow down because you now have the time to do so and this will help reduce stress.

Improving Your Time Management

Keep a Time Management Log.
Save time by staying focused and concentrating, delegating, and scheduling time for yourself.
Keep a time management log of how you spend your time: work, family, and leisure time.
Prioritize your time by rating tasks in order of importance or urgency. Redirect your time to those activities that are important and meaningful.
Manage commitments by not under or over committing. If it is not important to you do not commit to it.
Do away with procrastination by using a day planner, break large projects into smaller ones, and setting short-term deadlines/goals.
Examine your beliefs in order to reduce conflicts between what you believe and what your life is like.
Don’t become a slave to time, instead, use it more wisely by allocating it wisely.
Make use of Time Management Software.

Keeping a written time management log, or making use of time management software will help you to better plan your time. Tracking you time management will make it clearer where there might be problems or wasted time you can better utilize.

Create Healthy Coping Skills

It is very important you identify your coping strategies. One way is by recording stressful events and your reaction to them, in a journal. Once you have this information, you can work on changing unhealthy strategies into healthier ones which will help you to stay focused on the positive and what you can change or control in your life.

Your Lifestyle

Behaviors and lifestyle choices affect your level of stress. They may not cause you stress directly, but they can interfere with the ways your body deals with stress. Try the following:

Don't smoke, if you do, cut back or stop smoking all together.
Limit your consumption of alcohol or don’t drink at all.
Find balance between personal, work, and family obligations.
Have a sense of purpose in life, a sense of wonder and humor.
Eat a well balanced diet for the nutritional defense against stress.
Get moderate exercise throughout the day. Walking is one of the best exercises there is.
Get enough sleep, as your body recovers from stress while you are sleeping.
Find coping skills for depression surrounding work or home life.

Social Support Network

Social support networks are a major factor in how people experience stress. Finding support is a positive thing from family, friends, or a community. It is the understanding that you are cared for which gives you the edge. Research indicates a strong relationship between social support networks and better mental as well as physical health.

Change Your Thinking

If an event triggers any negative thoughts, you might be experiencing fear, insecurity, anxiety, depression, rage, guilt, a sense of worthlessness or powerlessness. These emotions can trigger the body's stress level, just as any real threat does. Dealing with negative thoughts and how you see things can help reduce your level of stress.

Mind chatter won’t stop negative thoughts or help eliminate stress.
Recognizing irrational thoughts helps you to avoid exaggerating them and from interpreting an event incorrectly.
Develop problem solving steps which help you to identify all aspects of a stressful event and find ways to deal with it.
Changing your style of communication helps you to communicate in a way which makes your views known without making others feel put down, threatened, or intimidated.

Even writers like myself can feel stressed out even though we just sit and type, or are writing. The stress can come from deadlines, sitting 6 to 8 hours, among family or personal needs can be stressful enough. We all need find our own stress coping skills and use them daily. No matter who your are stress is an unwanted thing, so, give it the boot out of your life with good coping skills.

Make goal setting and time management part your life.

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