Stress Relief tips: stop stress in its tracks and get the career you deserve

Symptoms associated with stress vary and may include one or more of the following: anxiety, stomach ache, mental exhaustion, disturbed sleep. The symptoms can get worse when you arrive into work. Many will be familiar with the ‘deadlines’, ‘a meeting with the manager’, and a dreaded encounter with the unpleasant colleague across the room.

Most agree that a work life balance is essential in order to safeguard your welfare against the affects of burn out at work. You can do this by making changes in the areas of your personal and professional life by following these 5 simple steps:

1. Self Awareness: Become accustomed to what triggers your stress at work because being conscious to what is going on for you will give you knowledge and then you are more likely to know how to deal with it appropriately.

2. Self care: What things do you need to put in place to affectively relieve you of stress? These can include holistic therapy, counseling, exercise, interpersonal skills training; which ever you choose will be important to you and will fit into your life style and work issues. There is no one thing that works for everyone.

3. Celebration of your role as a worker: This is often the most neglected area of stress relieving techniques but is vital in giving workers a sense of wellbeing. Workers in some professions may be seen in a negative light, some workers may be envied but we all should celebrate our successes and feel fulfilled by what we do. For some this is a struggle.

4. Create Goals in your life that inspire you: Objectives which help you to have an enriched life at work not one full of stresses only, most workers are led by what they think they should achieve in desperation and would benefit from guidance in how to re-evaluate their career goals.

5. Build in a Reward system; this creates an empowering and dynamic way of keeping the resources you are building into your life on track and is not depend on other to make you feel good about yourself. The constant challenge of balancing modern high technological working and living and taking care of ourselves is crucial.

Practice these 5 simple steps as often as you can for at least a month and they will become your built in assets to well-being at work. Go to http://www.myworkplacewellbeing.net and sign up for a free e-course to support you further

Gradle Gardner Martin is the founder of Stress Free Caring In The City Limited. Gradle is an Author, Management consultant and a Business Coach She formulates and writes procedures for organizations and provides developmental tools and supervision for Workers. Work Place: A Workers Guide to Stress Management" at http://www.myworkplacewellbeing.net and sign up for her weekly newsletter at http://www.StressFreeCaringInTheCity.org