Regardless of the type of job you have, it’s completely normal to feel at least a small amount of stress due to your professional life at one point or another. However, the amount of stress you feel shouldn’t be something that overpowers your life or causes you to become unhealthy either emotionally or physically. So to ensure that this doesn’t happen to you as a result of feeling stress from your job, here are three tips to help you manage the stress you feel in the workplace.
Find Someone To Talk To
One of the best things you can do for your mental health with regards to feeling stress is to talk to someone about how you’re doing. According to HelpGuide.org, reaching out to your co-workers, family, or friends and talking about your stress is a great way to release those feelings in a healthy way. Even if the person you talk to doesn’t know how to help you reduce the amount of stress you’re feeling, simply being able to put your feelings to words and express them to someone who’s intent on listening can improve your well-being.
Figure Out What’s Causing You Stress
Depending on the job you have, there could be any number of things about your profession that cause you stress. Maybe you have too much on your plate, or maybe you don’t feel like you’re qualified for the work given to you. But according to the American Psychological Association, the best way to beat your stress is to truly understand what’s causing you stress. To do this, try tracking when you feel stressed and what caused that stress. You should also write down what you do when you feel stressed. Once you’ve done this for a week or two, you should be able to see what about your job is stressing you out particularly and find ways that you can better respond to those stressors in a healthy and productive way.
Learn How to Disconnect From Work
Once you’re off the clock, Laurie Friedman, a contributor to Greatist.com, shares that it’s important for you to know how to unplug from work and allow the stress you feel there to disperse. Strategies for doing this will be different for different people. Some ways Friedman recommends learning how to de-stress yourself are to relax your body by eating well, exercising regularly, and getting enough sleep; relax your mind by meditating or learning how to limit the amount of stressors you allow into your life; and cultivating a greater sense of your supreme purpose by finding a creative outlet or being more social.
You don’t have to let the stress you feel at work take over your life. Use the tips mentioned above to learn how to better understand and manage your daily workplace stress.
Originally posted on April 1, 2017 @ 7:02 pm
