Hello, my friend. I'm excited to be sharing with you a new series I have created for you all about careers. The first few episodes starting at the beginning. Okay, maybe not that far back for some of us.
However, I wanted to start at the beginning of getting you to think about your future career and ultimately where you see yourself heading. I will be covering a number of episodes getting you to think about mapping out your career. The second part to the career series is where the fun really begins. We will be exploring various topics central to you navigating your career.
There will be times when you may think you have royally screwed up any chance of promotion or advancement. However, don't worry, I will be your guide right there beside you holding your hand along the way. I got your back. I really do believe true growth and advancement in anyone's life and career comes by embracing the difficulties that crop up by understanding the lesson that has presented itself in front of you.
Do you ever feel like you're in a vicious cycle or a virtual loop that you just can't get out of? And you think, why am I always attracting this type of person or this type of difficulty? I'll label it that way. It's more of the difficulty.
It's not the people because the people will change over the years. It's the situation that you find yourself in that you just cannot break free from. That is a true signal and sign giving you another opportunity to learn that lesson that you need to learn or improve or develop. Ultimately, we are then going to wrap up the series by looking at your next steps to get you closer to that vision you have for your life and career.
And that's it. Easy? Well, I'll let you be the judge over the next several weeks. So if you are ready, let's begin the journey to your career success.
Stress at work? Here's how to overcome it. Stress at work? Here's how to overcome it.
Even if you've discovered your dream job, you're not immune from work stress from time to time, simply because everything in life doesn't always go perfectly according to plan. Whether you're battling work stress every day or just once in a while, there are some effective techniques you can use to relieve it. Hello, my friend, and welcome. In today's show, I'm going to be sharing healthy ways to release your stress and even how to prevent a stressful reaction in the first place are critical to your health, success, and peace of mind.
So if you're ready, let's get started. Here are some strategies to combat work stress. First off, practice effective communication. That goes without saying.
Without effective communication, stress is placed upon both parties, maybe one more than the other, not necessarily, but stress does rise during periods of time when things get a bit fraught. So practice effective communication. If coworkers are causing you stress, ask yourself why. There's a good chance that the two of you aren't really communicating very well.
Put yourself in their shoes to better understand their point of view. Try to understand where they're coming from. Listen to their needs and see if they can be met. If you can satisfy their requirements, a source of conflict is removed, and so is the stress associated with it, especially once you get to that all-important stage of understanding.
Also, if you can better communicate your own needs, others are more likely to agree with your requests. Another tip to combat stress at work is to take care of yourself. If you're really dedicated to your job, you may begin to lose yourself in it. No wonder you're under a great deal of stress.
You may feel as if your job has become your whole life. In these instances, it's best to take a step back and focus on taking care of yourself. Take regular breaks and enjoy something that's not work-related when you're not working. Try not to work.
Avoid working overtime or taking work home with you. Well, if we're working from home, that's a little difficult, and that's another thing. But if you are in a physical office environment, try to avoid taking work home with you and working overtime. Now, working from home, that means avoid working overtime, so stick to your hours, and taking work home with you.
If you can, and your place of residence allows, try to just shut the door. That physical detachment between you and that room where you do your paid job will give you that physical space instead of thinking, oh, I'll just do a little bit more. On rare occasions, though, it may cause you less stress to stay and finish a project. So again, gauge it, but just make sure it doesn't become a big habit.
Rather than being late in completing it, you might want to give it that little extra push. But the caveat here is that you know that that's all it needs is just that little extra push. However, it might also help you to work on strengthening your time management skills if this occurs frequently, and only you can gauge that. Is it continually happening?
Do you notice it? Do your family comment and notice it? Those are the kinds of signs and signals you want to be looking out for in making sure that you put boundaries around your working time. Take care of your body by exercising, eating nutritious foods, and getting enough sleep.
Well, that sounds really simple and pretty basic. How often do we rush around on four hours of sleep, a coffee, and a donut all day long? Take care of yourself. Another tip to combat stress at work is to take care of yourself.
If you're really dedicated to your job, you may begin to lose yourself in it. No wonder you're under a great deal of stress. You may feel as if your job has become your whole life. In these instances, it's best to take a step back and focus on taking care of yourself.
Take regular breaks and enjoy something that's not work-related when you're not working. Try not to work. Avoid working overtime or taking work home with you. Well, if we're working from home, that's a little difficult, and that's another thing.
But if you are in a physical office environment, try to avoid taking work home with you and working overtime. Now, working from home, that means avoid working overtime, so stick to your hours, and taking work home with you. If you can and your place of residence allows, try to just shut the door. That physical detachment between you and that room where you do your paid job will give you that physical space instead of thinking, oh, I'll just do a little bit more.
On rare occasions, though, it may cause you less stress to stay and finish a project. So again, gauge it, but just make sure it doesn't become a big habit. Rather than being late in completing it, you might want to give it that little extra push. But the caveat here is that you know that that's all it needs is just that little extra push.
However, it might also help you to work on strengthening your time management skills if this occurs frequently, and only you can gauge that. Is it continually happening? Do you notice it? Do your family comment and notice it?
Those are the kinds of signs and signals you want to be looking out for in making sure that you put boundaries around your working time. Take care of your body by exercising, eating nutritious foods, and getting enough sleep. Well, that sounds really simple and pretty basic. How often do we rush around on four hours of sleep, a coffee, and a donut all day long?
Take care of yourself. Another tip to combat stress at work is to take care of yourself. If you're really dedicated to your job, you may begin to lose yourself in it. No wonder you're under a great deal of stress.
You may feel as if your job has become your whole life. In these instances, it's best to take a step back and focus on taking care of yourself. Take regular breaks and enjoy something that's not work-related when you're not working. Try not to work.
Avoid working overtime or taking work home with you. Well, if we're working from home, that's a little difficult, and that's another thing. But if you are in a physical office environment, try to avoid taking work home with you and working overtime. Now, working from home, that means avoid working overtime, so stick to your hours, and taking work home with you.
If you can and your place of residence allows, try to just shut the door. That physical detachment between you and that room where you do your paid job will give you that physical space instead of thinking, oh, I'll just do a little bit more. On rare occasions, though, it may cause you less stress to stay and finish a project. So again, gauge it, but just make sure it doesn't become a big habit.
Rather than being late in completing it, you might want to give it that little extra push. But the caveat here is that you know that that's all it needs is just that little extra push. However, it might also help you to work on strengthening your time management skills if this occurs frequently, and only you can gauge that. Is it continually happening?
Do you notice it? Do your family comment and notice it? Those are the kinds of signs and signals you want to be looking out for in making sure that you put boundaries around your working time. Take care of your body by exercising, eating nutritious foods, and getting enough sleep.
Well, that sounds really simple and pretty basic. How often do we rush around on four hours of sleep, a coffee, and a donut all day long? Take care of yourself. Another tip to combating stress at work is to understand other points of view.
When you know where someone is coming from, you'll be better able to understand the situation without all the stress. For example, if you can understand your manager's expectations, you can take action to meet them, or you can communicate your own more realistic expectations. Again, it's having that open dialogue with either your manager or your colleagues or your clients and customers, just so everyone's expectations are met or understood. Another tip to combating stress at work is get organized.
Organization can be a key factor for job stress relief. If your workplace is disorganized, it can also cause disorganization in your mind and add unnecessary stress to your brain, basically. Your thoughts may become scattered, and you'll be less likely to think on your feet effectively, causing even more stress. Or you start to forget things because everything is so disorganized and just a big cluster.
Then making sure that your space and your work is organized so you can easily and quickly put your fingers on things and answer any questions or get back to them in a quick way, that will start to reduce an awful lot of the stress that you may be going through at the moment. Keep track of your tasks with a planner or an organizer of some kind so you can control your day and not let your day control you. Get organized. And one last tip for combating stress at work is to take responsibility.
If you take responsibility for your actions, you can also reduce stress. When you keep yourself accountable, you'll be focused on constant self-improvement without the lies, the blame, or the cover-ups. Because at the end of the day, certainly in my experience, if you try and do that, everything comes out in the wash and it will be revealed. So there is just absolutely no point apart from just taking responsibility for your own actions.
I'll see you next time. I'll see you next time.