How to find and eliminate the root cause of stress at work
Work And Study / / December 25, 2019
Most of the articles on the fight against stress say, go in for sports and yoga, eat right, meditate. These tips are good, and you certainly need to follow them.
But the secret of the other. To get rid of stress, you need to understand what causes it. With the cause of stress is necessary to work directly, and as soon as you deal with the problem, deal with stress will be easier.
What causes stress
Let's describe what will cause you stress and fatigue:
- Strict deadlines.
- Colleague or boss with whom you find it difficult to communicate and collaborate.
- Uncertainty about what you are doing what is needed.
- Uncertainty in their own professionalism.
- Competition, office politics and personality conflicts.
- Lack of time for family or personal life.
- Large volumes of work.
Such factors provoking stress one thing in common. They all arise from the fact that we are very clear about how should look like workflow, what should be its outcome and what it means to be efficient employee.
We somehow compare ourselves to a certain ideal. That he is the main cause of stress.
We all dream about the work to be stable, rewarding and least trouble. The reality does not conform to this ideal, and therefore there is stress.
The same goes for all the factors that we have listed above. In each situation the problem arises inconsistencies ideal: we do not fit in time, colleagues do not justify the confidence the boss is not always a good leader... It happens every day, our perceptions of the ideal break on the reality, needs are not met and, therefore, we can not avoid disorders and experiences.
How to cope with this problem?
How to deal with the cause of stress
If all of our problems arise because of some ideal, it might be better not to create it at all? Well, that would be great, but to give up these aspirations can not be. Anyway, we always hope for the best and strive for more.
To cope with his stress, You need:
- Realize that you are in a stressful condition.
- Understand how much you strive for perfection.
- Try to find joy in the present moment, slow down in the race for the unattainable.
How to do it?
Learn how to fix the state of stress
Experiences, frustration, stress - these are the first signs that you need to stop and relax. These symptoms as notifications on your smartphone: you should not ignore them, and deal with them and realize that you are about to plunge into a state of stress.
Understand what constitutes your unattainable ideal
Why now you start to worry? What you can not achieve? How strong is the real situation is different from how you imagined your job? Perhaps you have modeled too stable, calm, controlled situation, which does not correspond to reality.
For example, you always dreaming have a fixed amount of work and quite reasonable deadlines. It gives a sense of security and comfort. But life is such that only the number of jobs is growing, and most of them have a mark ASAP. Instead of calm you feel confused and orderly schedule gradually turns into pure chaos. This can be frustrating, but then stress will captivate you. Change the point of view of such situations, as they occur not only during operation, but also in life itself.
The choice is yours: either you love such conditions or hate.
Loosen the attachment to the ideal
Say to yourself: "The quest for the ideal does not help me. It hurts me. I am open to new opportunities. I'm ready for the unexpected. "
Thus, rather than to seek some kind of ephemeral ideal image of an employee who can do anything, you become a person who makes mistakes and learn themNot afraid to take challenges and willing to difficulties.
You will enjoy an element of chaos in your life, because the only way you can learn to focus on the most important things. Even if you encounter an incredibly complex problems, you will understand: after the failure of life continues.
Rejecting the pursuit of an unattainable ideal, you accept life for what it is. It is not necessarily made up as you intended. You have to learn to love it all, without exception, with victories and defeats. In return, you get a great interest in the life and turns will be able to enjoy each of them. You forget how it is - to complain and whine, but to see in others only the best and stop blame others for their own failures.
Accumulated too much work? Choose the most urgent task and execute it perfectly. annoying colleague? Find out what are the problems, and try to look at their behavior from a new perspective, learn to sympathize with him. Are you afraid of losing their jobs? Try to focus on how to qualitatively carry out their duties, and simultaneously look for alternate routes in case, if you still be fired.
Some people find this advice may seem useless and annoying, because we are about what the ideal can not be achieved. Many want to control every minute of his life, present and future. Well, if this way is good for you - good luck. Those who can not get rid of stress, it is necessary to abandon the race for the far and distant dream and to focus on on what is happening here and now, open your heart to all the new and unexpected, to be interested, and not to judge.
After all, life is beautiful.