Understanding Stress
Mastering Stress for Optimum Performance
This series or articles explains how you can manage stress. This helps you to:
- perform at the peak of your abilities when under immense pressure
- produce good quality work even when tasks are dull and repetitive
- improve the quality of your life, health and job, and
- avoid the problems of exhaustion, depression, ill health, burn-out and breakdown that
are associated with excessive levels of long term stress.
The series will discuss:
- What stress is, how it is caused, and your responsibility for your stress levels
- Optimum levels of stress and the effects of long term exposure to it
- What can happen if stress gets out of control
- The impact of life crises and how to minimise them
- How to analyse the causes of stress accurately and plan to control them
- How to protect subordinates from the bad effects of stress
- Increasing stress when you are under-motivated
- How to lower stress levels by:
- Improving your working and living environment
- Adjusting your lifestyle
- Adjusting negative elements of your personality
- Looking after your body and health
- Using physical stress reduction techniques
- Using mental stress reduction techniques
By the end of this article series you should have a much clearer understanding of stress and
the importance of controlling it. You should be able to analyse the points of pressure in your
life, and plan to neutralise them. You will also have an armoury of different stress reduction
methods. This will help you to control each stressor with the most appropriate technique.
Highly Recommended Books
For an excellent book on stress management, try
The Book of Stress Survival - How to Relax and Live Positively
by Alix Kirsta. This is a very pleasant, well-presented, sensible approach to stress management. It covers many important areas completely
ignored by most other books.
Understanding Stress
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