Stress Management

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Stress Management

• Wrap Up

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Stress Management Wrap Up

• What do you want out of life?
• Are you achieving this?
• What is stress?
• Why is it important to manage stress?
• What is margin? Do you have it?

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Common Mistakes in Managing Stress

• Expecting someone else to reduce your stress
• Deciding not to change
• Acting like a victim
• Trying to play anew game by the old rules
• Trying to control the uncontrollable
• Failing to abandon the expendable
• Picking the wrong battles
• Psychologically unplugging from your job or
  family

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Maladaptive Coping Techniques

• Alcohol abuse
• Smoking
• Drugs
• Over eating
• Escapism (T.V.)
• Spending sprees
• Blaming others

• Physical and verbal abuse
• Complaining
• Over working
• Denial
• Magnification

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Bring the Future Into the Present

• If we live responsibly in the present we will
  influence the future. The same holds true if we
  live irresponsibly.
• There is a connection between the present and
  the future and it is called choices. Prepare
  for your future today in how you live.

Dr. Jerry Sittser
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Stress Model Intervention
Life Situations and How You Choose to Live

• Choices direction
• Identify stressors specifics
• Simplify
• Balance
• Pevey bucket
• Money management
• Time management
• Diet nutrition

• Noise reduction
• Assertiveness
• Communication skills
• Conflict resolution
• Social support networking
• Behavior modification
• Relational maintenance
• Environmental planning
• Family planning

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Perception Intervention
How You Choose to Think

• Selective awareness
• Perspective
• Locus of control
• Attitude
• Gratitude
• Contentment
• Forgiveness

• Humor
• Re-label
• Self-talk
• Thought stopping
• Success analysis
• Sand analogy

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Most people think that happiness is doing what
you want to do. True happiness is learning to
enjoy what you have to do.
Anonymous
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Emotional Intervention
Down Time Pauses in the Pace of Life

• Meditation
• Autogenics
• Progressive relaxation
• Biofeedback
• Prayer

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Physiological Intervention

• Physical exercise

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Consequences

• By intervening a little at each level of the
  stress model, you can reduce the harmful effects
  of stress, thereby changing the outcomes from
  distress to eustress.

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All my possessions for a little more time.
Queen Elizabeth, 1603 on her dying bed
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What does it take to satisfy people? Just a
little bit more.
John Rockefeller
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That the birds of worry fly over your head, this
you cannot change. That they build their nest in
your hair, this you can prevent.
Asian Proverb
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Timing

• Successful living is related to proper timing.
• There is a time and a place for everything, and
  people who seem to be successful understand
  when that is.