Healthy Lifestyle - Manage Your Stress
August 31st, 2007Now many people work much better under stress assuming that the stressor is related to the work you are doing. So, for example:
If you have a deadline to meet for getting a piece of work done and that deadline is close, your stress levels will increase as you rush to complete the job. Usually your output will increase because you can make decisions quicker and are less prone to deliberating about what to do next. You just think it through and do it. We certainly tend to be more motivated when under this type of stress.
Now this is good assuming that it is in relatively short bursts. But if you try to sustain this high stress working then productivity will drop and your health may be affected. You will start making mistakes and then have to spend even more time correcting things which in turn puts pressure on future deadlines. The problem occurs when we have deadline after deadline and impossible targets to achieve.
So what to do? Well this will depend on your exact situation but pretty much without exception taking time out to plan what you have to do will help. You also have to accept that things can’t stay as they are. So either you have to find a way of getting things done quicker. Or you just have to come clean and admit that something is going to be late. If it is going to be late then best to say something now and react accordingly than to wait until it is late and then admit it to yourself.