subject: 9 Practical Stress Relief Tips [print this page] How do you live a successful and fulfilled life without all the stress? This is a question all successful people ask themselves at sometime during their career.
Here are 9 steps to a less stressed life:
1. Implement a good time management program. By good I mean prioritized. Are you always working on the most profitable or important project or do you find yourself shuffling emails into the appropriate folder and spending time in meetings that are completely unproductive?
* How about the people you spend time with. Are your activities rewarding or is it time to find a new set of friends.
2. Keep work at the office, or at least limit it to a certain part of your home. Bringing work home is often inevitable but where you work is up to you. If you have to bring work home, consider working in a coffee shop. This way you can enjoy your home life with out having the sight of work disturbing the big game.
3. De-clutter and organize your workspace. The most important aspect of de-cluttering is not fantastic organization, de-cluttering means completing projects. If you have a desk full of unfinished work, the stress levels will go through the roof. The reason being is part of your mind is still on these tasks distracting you from what you're currently working on. This makes everything take longer than necessary.
4. Do something you enjoy. When you aren't working, you need to do something that is immensely enjoyable. Something you can concentrate on. Imagine that you were placed in a room and advised to stare at a blank wall. What would you do? Probably start thinking about work and all of the things you need to get done, which would stress you out further.
5. Learn meditation. Meditation is an excellent tool for helping with emotional state control. Even if you are under stress you certainly don't want your client or competition to know about it. Meditation helps you maintain composure and control of stress which is absolutely essential for the successful person.
6. Get regular exercise. Regular exercise works wonders for relieving stress. The best exercise to relieve stress is short burst intense exercises. Preferably play a sport like racquet ball, squash or tennis. These sports require short bursts of intense activity which is best for stress relief. The long slow cardio can actually stress your body with worn out tendons and cartilage.
7. Eat organic foods. Not just a fad, organic foods have been shown to improve nutrition and brain functions leading to less stress and more productivity. The fuel you use in your body determines greatly how much stress you experience on a daily basis.
8. Use adaptogenic herbs. One of the secrets of astronauts and top athletes is adaptogenic herbs like Eleuthero and Rhodiola. These incredible herbs help fight both physical and mental fatigue that can lead to full blown stress, anxiety and even depression.
9. Delegate. Bogged down with stress producing little tasks that have to be done. Learn to delegate. If you don't have anyone to delegate to, the simple answer is to outsource the work to an online personal assistant for $2 to $3 an hour. Use the benefits of the global economy to help de-stress your life.
Follow these steps and you'll find your stress is greatly reduced.
