How Stress Management Can Help Achieve Your Goals
At first glance, managing stress may not seem like a very important of goal setting. However, very often it can be the difference between hitting your goals and falling well short.
Stress in our lives can be divided into two types, positive stress and negative stress. We thrive under a certain amount of stress, and it adds excitement and anticipation to our lives. Competitions, deadlines and even some disputes can give us more energy, and push us on to greater things.
We are not looking to eliminate stress from our lives, as the only people with no stress are those in the graveyard. In fact, lack of a certain amount of stress can act as a depressant, and lead to boredom. On the other hand, excess stress can lead to confusion and a sense of helplessness.
So controling the level of stress in our lives is one of the goal setting basics we need to consider.
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Ahh yes, if we can just find that happy medium. I feel people put themselves under most of their own stressfulness. I am the worst for that. Unfortunately I have that “Perfection” bug and causes a lot of my own stress.
Nice post Alan
Leon Bowes
Alan,
I too work from home… and I actually specialize in stress issues!
It’s perfectly true, what you write about goal-setting…
Without clear micro and macro goals, and a good way to record them, the stress just builds and builds.
Interesting how we need some stress to drive us… but a little too much is WAY too much
great post,
-J.T.
Very interesting.
I know personally how bad stress can effect the goals I set for myself. I can never seem to get as much done under stress but if I just take a few minutes to clear my head things get much easier. Great post Alan, Tim Stokes.
It’s good to be reminded that there is such a thing as “good stress”. I suppose anyone who works well under pressure can certainly understand how that helps to drive them to their best work.
It’s also good to remember that the “bad stress” is manageable for those who are pro-active in trying to find ways to cope with it.
For tips and advice, go to:
http://www.OurStressfulLives.com
I use visualization every single day to calm my nerves and create focus around my goals and desired outcomes in life.
Another method I use on top of this is the use of a vision boards. Have you ever heard of them? They are images pasted on a board that represent your hopes, dreams, and goals. Studying these boards every days plants seeds of these goals within your subconscious mind.
John Assaraf does a better job of explaining this and showing you how to do it in his new book “The Complete Vision Board Kit.” I downloaded the free chapter here at http://www.TheVisionBoardKit.com.
Hi everyone,
Thanks for all your comments. You have added a lot of good suggestions to this post, so well done.
Alan