Trainism

One of the best ways of coping with stress is to understand and anticipate your first encounter with stress and do something to either avoid that stress, or at least minimize its impact. So you can either love it or hate it, but you must never Ignore It!

Whenever you encounter stressful situations, it will always throw upon different kinds of challenges. So if you can anticipate what your reaction to those situations will be, only then will you be able to Master Stress.

There are several techniques that can help you to cope with stress:

I) Be a good planner: There are three ways to plan for stress:

• Avoid- This will only work when you have control over events. Hence, try to avoid such situation to the fullest. For Example: Arguing with your boss over policies that he will never agree to.
• Alleviate- Spend least amount of time in any stressful situation. Get away from it as soon as possible.For example, if you have to sit through a 3-hour meeting, and you are only needed for 20 minutes update, Politely walk out of the meeting once your updates are over.
• Practice make a man perfect- You can either rehearse how you will behave in a given situation, or come up with creative ways to overcome that stressful situation. For example, If you are conducting interviews for a lot of people then you must walk-in with a proper planning, of first conducting group discussions and then having a face to face interview for the selected candidates.

II) Underestimate the stressful situation:

Most of the times, you can be the cause of your own stress by exaggerating the impact of a stressful event. Sit down with a clear head in a calm and a quite place and answer yourself the impact of the event. See every situation in the light of these three categories:

• Event vs. Your Goal-Think carefully about the event, then try to put the event in the context of your goals.Finally compare, which is bigger the stressful event or the ultimate goal that you wish to achieve.
• Money-If there is money at stake, always remind yourself that you will have ample amount of opportunities to earn more. So let go!
• Growth at workplace- Train you mind that you will have better opportunities to impress your Seniors. So what needs to be taken care of should be the corrective steps. If you will reduce the importance of the event then you will be able to think from a rationale perspective and thereby will take a better decision for yourself.

III) Reduce the risk of uncertainty:

An uncertain future will always give you stress.The best way to deal with stress is to be prepared for it in some form or the other. Do proper research, be prepared for the worst, so even if some thing bad happens you will be able to mentally cope with it. Predict as much as you can with proper facts and figures.

Finally I recommend that you must try to get to the root of the stress and what will be your strategy to fight beck. If you are intelligent, then you will anticipate your reactions and will always find yourself in a better situation.