Stress management strategies are should be an essential part of our natural armoury. Many of us may consider stress as being inherently a bad thing. However, it is not always necessarily the case. Without some stress in our lives, we would become passive and inert. You could say that some stress is essential to life itself. Nevertheless, excessive stress, when it becomes 'distress' can eventually cause us emotional and even physical damage
Of the stress management strategies I teach my clients, the following has proven to be extremely effective. It is the recognition that a major stressor in our life is caused by simply neglecting tasks. You may wonder what this has to do with stress management strategies. In fact, this method does not come strictly under stress management strategies as much as the adaptation of a mindset.
This omission of not taking care of business is one that can have serious repercussions in your life if it is to become habitual. Constantly putting off every unpleasant task will impact your life on more than one level. First, there is the distinct possibility that, if you are employed, your employer will very quickly come to realise this neglect. If it becomes a habit, you will soon be looking for new employment. If you perhaps fail to keep up with paperwork in your own business, your business will soon suffer the consequences of this neglect. Further down the road, the taxman may very well be asking for data and records that you will not have.
The results of the above actions or lack of them will surely land you in financial straits. This, in turn will impact on your very life style as well as your relationship with others. And during all of this will be the ever growing unease in your own mind that something bad is about to happen. Of course, this is more than a distinct possibility and, however much you attempt to make trivial of the situation in order to enable yourself to continue the avoidance, the neglected business grows steadily into a spectre that haunts your days. It is always there like the sword of Damocles, hanging above your head ready to fall.
'Over dramatic' you may think? Maybe, but it happens to millions of people every day who may, ironically, be practicing other stress management strategies and wondering why they are still stressed.
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