Stress in daily business
life is inevitable. But how to manage this stress is developed during the process
is the trick. The first is through extreme adrenaline sports, either
downhill biking or athletic skiing. These require focus and skill in order to
be ready for unexpected obstacles, or to control [high] speeds in skiing, and
they serve both as healthy distractions and physical training. Secondly,
whether it be cycling with a street bike or ski mountaineering, we can control
or manage the stress.
It is a prevalent attitude
among many, that work comes first. It’s of high priority and trumps family, friends
and even personal well-being. Many individuals sacrifice their fitness for the
sake of the job and this often leads to tragic consequences. With stress among
us rising over the years, fitness and personal well-being have taken a backseat
in their priority lists. Another reason
why many do not exercise is because going to the gym after a hard day’s work
just adds to the monotony. Exposure to high levels of stress eventually
manifests itself both physically and psychologically.
Adventure sports are one of
the most effective remedies for releasing stress. It creates an outlet for you
to relieve yourself of all the pent up stress, making you feel calmer and
revitalised. While stress is often associated with depression and negativity,
adventure sports is associated with euphoria, energy and excitement. These
types of sports enhance your mood and help you get into a positive state of
mind. After you take part in any adventure related activity it gives you a
sense of accomplishment and this, in turn, makes you more confident.
Gym Exercises, jogging and
other physical activity produce endorphins—chemicals in the brain that act as
natural painkillers—and also improve the ability to sleep, which in turn reduces stress.
2. Plan the minutes of your day
(Time management) :
The best possible starting point is to
spend 10 minutes in the evening planning your next day. You can use a tool like
Google Calendar or digital planner or daily diary to schedule your workouts and
other activities, to make sure that you have not overlooked anything important.
You need to know how much time you have
in a given day and how much of it you’re going to need to complete every
activity. Once you have an understanding of what you need to do, you can focus
on preparation. This means things like setting the alarm clock, planning what
you’re going to do first, and prioritise the work.
Planning is the key to effective time
management. It’s hard to feel organized and on top of things if you’re
unprepared. Having a clear plan for your day helps you make the most of your
time and actually accomplish the important things in life. If you feel
like there aren’t enough hours in the day, keep on reading to find out the
simple way I create my schedule to help with daily time-management.
The best part of planning the day is to prioritize the topic, considering the
values it is carrying. If a topic has nothing to do about incurring
losses or alternatives are available, then it will not have more attention
throughout the day.
CREATE A DAILY PLAN :
here’s what you should include in my
daily plan:
Appointments: These are meetings,
client calls, Conference call or other appointments that you have to plan your
day around.
Self-Care Time: you should make
sure to schedule a self-care practice (yoga, meditation, walk) into your day.
Top Three Priorities: Take three projects
of all in priorities that you want to accomplish or make progress on.
work in progress (WIP) Report : When there is
major projects are under process and ignoring them may impact business growth, we
should keep a periodical review on them.
3. Start the day with 10 minutes of
meditation.
The morning meditation:
Find a place that will be your sacred space for meditation.
Choose a daily time.
Wear comfortable clothes, especially cotton loose cloth.
Sit comfortably on the mat.
Set a timer.
Always start your meditation practice with 5 to 7 long and slow deep
breaths so you can experience start releasing tension.
If you focus on the benefits that meditation can give you instead of
focusing on the process of meditation itself, then you’re doomed to
failure.
We would think of meditation as a gift you give yourself every day after
few days. Because even if you just sit there quietly for five minutes,
you’ll feel a lot calmer afterwards. We would like meditation
because it grounds us. It forces us to relax, to focus on what’s
important and to be grateful for what we have. We would always feel
elated or extremely happy, excited and full of positive energy afterwards.
But starting your day with a few minutes of meditation has a powerful,
positive impact on how the rest of your day is going to go. That’s why so many
people like to do meditation in the morning.
Meditating means :
Reduces stress and
anxiety
Relaxes the nervous
system
Boosts immunity
Balances emotions
Lowers blood pressure
Increases creativity
Lets you understand
your true self
Helps with
concentration and focus
Provides peace of
mind
Creates a sense of
calm
Allows you to live in
the present
Release blood
pressure.
Starting your morning with meditation is a great way to start the day on
the right foot. Morning meditation can help you energize or boost energies, strengthen
power in the body for the whole day, or even help you find peace before a busy
or stressful day.
4. Be a reader :
An
ideal part of routine habits for successful people is reading news papers,
magzines, articles etc., The Berkshire Hathaway magnate reportedly spends five to six hours a day
reading five different newspapers. "That's
how knowledge works," he recently told an investment class at Columbia
University. "It builds up, like compound interest. All of you can do it,
but I guarantee not many of you will do it."
The
former Microsoft CEO has attested to reading 50 books a year, or roughly one
book a week.
The more
you read and learn, the easier it becomes to retain information. Successful
people don’t prescribe to Homer Simpson’s belief that learning something new
pushes something old out. They simply continue to learn, and commit an
incredible expanse of knowledge to memory, sometimes without even realising it.
Even the
most successful people need to tune out the world every once in a while. But
this doesn’t mean they turn their minds off completely. There is nothing wrong
with reading a “trashy magazine” or graphic novel to unwind. Reading just about
anything is more beneficial than watching television or wasting every night at
a bar or movie theatre.
Success,
after all, requires not just luck and skill, but also a certain mind set. If
you’re distracted, you won’t be able to reach the goals needed to get where you
want to be—whether that means starting your own company or excelling at what
you already do. If you want to be
successful, read the stories or articles of successful people, you will get the
clues for making your own roadways of success.
Many
famously wealthy and successful people have shared some of the rituals they
practice to stay on the right track. We rounded up some of their habits you
might want to pick up.
5. Spend time alone in the morning to set priorities for the day:
And once
you finally reach your workplace, sit down, relax and enjoy the day! Preparing
a clear list of ambitious but realistic “To Does” is the only way to
successfully manage your 24 hours ensuring little level of stress and high
levels of performance. It will clearly exercise your willpower that will have
to choose the order of your priorities on the basis of importance. There is difference between successful people
and ordinary people that successful people are extra-ordinary in planning the
business growth, while ordinary people don’t.
Every
minute spent in planning saves 10 minutes in execution. When you write a list you have a track to run
on. Writing a list clarifies your
thinking and goals. Writing down a list
forces you to think at a higher level. If
you have 10 items on your list of things to do, two will be the more important
than all of the other items put together.
It doesn’t mean that all other items as compare to 10 items, will be
ignored completely, but it will have less importance. All success in life comes from project
completion and living a life of good habits will help you complete more
projects.
If you
start working for the day without setting priorities, you will get many
incomplete works all together and you will realize that you spent undue
importance to some unimportant works. It’s
easy to get off track when you don’t have a plan. Without planning what your
day will look like, you wake up not knowing what you want to do or accomplish.
Successful people spend a little time before giving themselves clear goals for
the day.
When
you’re planning to drive your car, you first got to establish a destination. If
you’re driving the car with no purpose, then you will reach no
destination. Planning your day in the
early morning helps you establish the priorities in your life, allows you to
prevent distractions, and keeps your entire day productive.
6. Actively
remove distractions:
Distractions are possible only due to a clear priorities
to the work are not set. So, start your day by setting clear priorities
for yourself and then make a conscientious effort to minimize distractions.
With leadership comes immense responsibility where the stress of not having
enough hours in the day can become burdensome. With a few productivity hacks
you can get creative to minimize distractions and maximize
production.
The first
step would be to identify what your most common distractions are. List out such
distractions and action to be taken, to avoid distractions. If you are working in an office cubicle, the
most likely disturbance is likely a social distraction. If you engage easily in
gossip, you may find yourself spending a good portion of the day just chatting. Sometimes, most of the office culture is
indulged in chatting on personal or family problems. Finding out your distractions is equally
important when you’re working home. You may not have the problem of yapping
co-workers, but your family members can be a huge distraction. Similarly, if they watch TV or play games in
the same room as you are, it’s nearly impossible for you to concentrate
entirely. You need to measure how you
spend your time so that you know what your most common distractions are. So, you are supposed to identify solutions to
each and every distractions.
We can categorize distractions into two types 1. LOG THE EXTERNAL
DISTRACTIONS and 2. LOG THE INTERNAL DISTRACTIONS
This means you need to keep a log of every distraction you have during
the day in study of external distractions. You may have an idea how your work
day typically goes, but without detailed logging, you really can’t be sure. We
tend to underestimate the time we engage in distracting activities.
So use pen and paper, or computer notebook to log your work, breaks,
chat and anything else you engage during your work day. Remember to add in
timestamps so you know how long you’ve spent in each activity.
Log the following:
a) Place
b) Reason for distraction
c) Time of distraction
2. LOG THE INTERNAL DISTRACTIONS
When you are working, and you get interrupted intermittently thoughts
from your mind all the time. What to have for dinner? What are items scheduled the meeting? The idea is to write every distracting
thought you have which requires some type of action.
Getting up early in the Morning :
Getting up early in
the morning has lots of benefits. You get the chance to be available and
present before demands are made of you, and before you need to start working on
your goals. Getting up early in the
morning, makes your energy afresh and it strengthens your ability and fresh calibre
to accept challenges. This can improve
your mood, as you feel in control of your life.
If you don’t get the opportunity to work on your chosen tasks first
thing, take matters into your own hands; do the work from home or come into
work early. Being successful is rarely
about being completely independent – successful people are able to work with
others, delegate, compromise and accept other ideas.
High achievers are always signifies with certain
qualities from regular people. If you
get up every day and just coast wherever events and situations take you, you’re
going to end up somewhere other than the ideal place. If you get up every day
with certain plan, via daily habits means you have burning desire to success in
life.
Discipline is probably the one trait or distinguishing quality
most associated with achievement. It's
because accomplishing great things involves consistently doing the right things
over and over again, even when it's hard, and it indicates that even after a
painful task, your burning desire inspire you to continue the task.
7. Read something for pleasure.
Reading for pleasure is not just a leisure activity; it's a powerful tool for personal development, intellectual stimulation and enrichment, and emotional well-being. It enables you to be more conversant with others.
The benefits of reading for pleasure extend beyond improving educational outcomes. It can reduce stress, improve empathy and nurture wider.
Following are several main areas of the benefits to reading for pleasure :
1. Reading attainment and writing ability,
2. Text comrehension.
3. Positive reading habits,
4. Greater self-confidence as a reader,
5. improve basic knowledge.
There’s nothing more
comforting than curling up with a good book. When you read, you welcome new
adventures, lessons and perspectives. In fact, time spent with your nose in a
book can help your career. Find out the many benefits of reading and how it can
help you succeed in business.
The benefits and
importance of reading have been championed for years. It’s been a topic of
research for quite some time and continues to be studied by business
professionals, communication experts, linguists and others.
Research has shown how
reading benefits cognitive function, especially in older adults.
“Reading is a very
necessary habit for every successful businessperson,” said Ellen Parry Lewis, a
fiction author. “It broadens your mind, helps with your written and verbal
communication skills, and gives you a certain level of understanding and
empathy.”
Reading about different
types of people and their adversities helps you understand others better and
fosters empathy, which is important in your business life, regardless of your
field.
That might sound silly,
but the concept does have real-world applications. Business owners can more
easily reach their target customers if they read up on what makes them unique.
“Regardless of what kind
of stories you like to read, fiction or nonfiction, reading enables you to make
sense of your life, the lives of others, your relationships and the world at
large,”
8. Make the most of your commute.
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