Get rid of these habits to life was less stressful
A Life / / December 19, 2019
Often we do complicate your life and make it an integral part of stress. However, you can change everything: remember how and what not to do, and say goodbye to stress.
1. Put abstract goals
When the target is not clearly formulated, without specifics, and time limits, it will hardly be possible to achieve it. You seem to be doing something, but the result is not just stress. "I want a lot of money" - an example of a failed goal setting. If you break a global goal on several small and priorities, the chances of success will increase immediately:
"My goal - to earn 100 thousand rubles a month. To reach it, I should get a raise. To get promoted, I need to pull up to the level of English Upper Intermediate. I can do it in six months. "
And here you have a very specific, measurable, feasible and priority goal - to raise the level of English by one level in six months.
2. Strive for unrealistic goals
Objectives must first be realistic and achievable. Well, you do not master the foreign language perfectly for a week. Keep this in mind.
Forcing themselves into rigid frames, you suffer failure and experiencing. Be forgiving of yourself, put a difficult but feasible task.
3. Try to catch everything at once
"What matters to me now?" - Answer this question organize the time so that to the priorities it has always lacked.
Separate the urgent from the important, when it comes to workflow. Do not forget: chasing immediately, you risk not to catch two rabbits none.
4. Strive for perfectionism in everything
Eternal The pursuit of excellence and excessive demands on themselves will not add you happiness. If you can do well - do. You can be even better - go ahead! But scrupulous detail improvement is able to bring to a nervous breakdown. Know how to stop and feel the moment, "I did a great job and are fully satisfied with the result."
5. Compare yourself with others
You and other people have different goals, different start-up capital, opportunities and personal qualities. Often turn into a comparison of self-pity: "I'm such a loser, is not something that a colleague of mine." And they are much less likely to carry at least some positive news: "He could not, and I can" or "I'm 30 years old already opened his business, and he was still sitting on the neck of the parents."
The only person you have to compare yourself - are you in the past. This namozolil eyes and order tiresome phrase makes sense. Focus on your successes and failures. Find the mistakes that led to the failure, and work on them.
You must not be a better son, my mother's friend, you must be better than we were yesterday.
6. Rely on others
If you wait for others to do everything for you or help you in any situation, it threatens an unpleasant outcome. Well, when there are people willing to drop everything and break on the first call. But circumstances sometimes against us.
Be prepared that you will have to cope with the most difficult, that it was not a surprise to you, and not added to the already unnecessary stress.
7. Live to justify the expectations of others
Trying to fulfill the dreams of their loved ones, you lose the opportunity to exercise their own. But you want to live its life, right?
8. Trying to please everyone
It is impossible to please everyone. Are sure to find a person (not one), which has a different view of the world. And there is nothing wrong. It is better to rejoice that the seven billion different people you find at least one person close to you in spirit.
9. Try to change the other person
Let others live as they wish. Do not attempt to adjust the person under their expectations. You probably have it still does not work, you're upset, but stress does not take long.
10. Wait for the approval of each of its steps
Do only what others approve of - meant to deprive themselves of the opportunity of self-expression and self-actualization.
You must be able to make informed decisions, relying on their goals and needs, even if the relatives consider is not the right step. Listen to the advice of bad, but constantly look to others is not worth it.
11. neglect introspection
Focus on your emotions: that you are concerned about what brings pleasure, that does not care. Do not be afraid to dig deep, it will help you understand yourself better and deal with the problems.
12. Keep emotions in themselves
Negative emotions that are accumulated in you, provoke stress. And sooner or later, they would break out. Immediately tell people that you are concerned about or is not satisfied. If necessary - refer to the psychologist, that's fine. Do not hesitate to their emotions.
13. Do not solve problems
Solve 10 problems over time is much more difficult than to remove one gradually. Do not hoard them, saw the hole - to patch it and move on.
14. Constantly feel guilty
If you are late, you forget the promise or someone offended, you will certainly be ashamed.
But it happens that impose guilt: "You did not help me / refused the request / do not live up to expectations." For a man is the way of manipulation, but for you - the source of stress.
15. Always say "yes"
delicately refuse - this is art. But it must master. Otherwise, you will become a poor and weak-willed robot. And there can not do without the stress.
16. Angry for no reason
If you are very easy to deduce from itself, the stress can not be avoided. Find works for you to struggle with irritability and correct the situation. Someone, for example, helps yoga or meditation.
17. To expect from the other courtesy
And then disappointed when expectations are not met. If you are a decent and calm person, it does not mean that you are surrounded by the same. Unfortunately, the principle of "do unto others as you would have them do unto you" often does not work.
18. Worry about the little things
Some tend to attach great importance to unimportant things. This is an additional source of stress, which can be removed, if you learn to separate the important from the unimportant.
19. Knocking on a closed door
If you want to stay with your stress, keep doing what does not work, and do not try to change. Or reconsider their actions and try to look at things from a new angle. You may find the best solution.
20. Being unorganized person
This also applies to the daily routine, and mess on the table. To live in perpetual chaos is quite difficult, so just accustom themselves to order.
21. Do not believe in yourself
Insecurities and complexes - causes many troubles. And stress as well.
22. Worry about things that you are not subject to
Very often the cause of stress in the experiences that we can not change and that we can not influence. For example, we can not control the weather. If a two-week forecast for your vacation disappointing, killed on this occasion it is not necessary. You still will not be able to change that.
Try to find the positive in all aspects and to extract benefits for themselves, instead of irritated and waste energy on negative emotions.
Bad weather can be, and will not give you lain on the beach all the 14 days, but you will have more reasons to go to interesting excursions and learn something new.
23. Too carried away watching and reading news
You do not work to filter the negative information, which in the news, unfortunately, a lot. To be added to your personal problems of global, and this is unlikely to help get rid of stress.
24. Forget about hobbies and interests
Hobbies helps to distract from stress. You are busy, which is genuinely enjoy, have fun and relax. Find at least a little time to devote to his hobby.
25. Indulge in pleasures
Allow yourself time to time small pleasures: spend all Sunday after book, Take a bubble bath, buy new clothes, go for a riding lesson.
26. misuse alcohol
Some people try to cope with stress by using alcohol, although the effect of it will eventually be reversedThe Link Between Stress and Alcohol. Instead of drinking, try to practice yoga, meditate or learn controlled breathing.
27. Undertake too much
Try not to overestimate their capabilities. Everyone has a limit, learn to feel his.
28. Neglect physical activity
Physical exercises help to copeExercise and stress: Get moving to manage stress stress. Nice bonus will be toned body.
29. always late
You will not only fail the people, but also "recognize high" itself an additional portion of the stress. You tormented conscience, and, most likely, some of the planned business would have to move on tomorrow.
Try to carefully plan fees and lays a little more time to be sure to catch the appointed time.
30. Prokrastinirovat
Sometimes it is useful to postpone the case and exhale to return with renewed vigor to the task. But the constant postponement of life for tomorrow to anything good will not.
31. Forget about the rest
You need to relax. Otherwise, you will find emotional burnout. When you finish all the urgent things, close the laptop and take a break. Try to complete the work during the week to devote a weekend rest.
32. I regret the past
Do not feel sorry about what happened. You will not change anything. But the findings can be done in order not to repeat their mistakes in the future.
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