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Mastering Stress Management: Overcoming Burnout and Achieving Balance in Life

Stress affects everyone differently, and understanding its nature is the first step to managing it. This chapter explores the duality of eustress and distress, emphasizing the impact of personality types and the importance of recognizing stressors. It also delves into the symptoms and causes of burnout, offering actionable strategies for overcoming it, such as prioritizing tasks, scheduling breaks, and improving communication. Additionally, effective time management techniques are highlighted, ensuring a healthy balance between personal and professional life for long-term success and well-being.

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Mastering Stress Management: Overcoming Burnout and Achieving Balance in Life

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  1. Chapter 4 – Managing Yourself Stress – What is it?

  2. Stress is…. • Eustress vs. Distress • Change in the usual mode of functioning • Hans Selye – Animal Research and the General Adaptation Syndrome • Arnold Lazarus – Daily Uplifts & Hassles • What might be stress to you might not be stress to someone else!

  3. Stress and Personality Types • Type A and Type B personality • Addiction? Workaholics

  4. What can you do about stress? • Monitoring • Blunting • Do I let my anger out or do I control it?

  5. What is Burnout? • Symptoms? • Chronic fatigue/low energy • Irritability/negative attitude • Inflexibility/indecisive

  6. How to overcome burnout? • List priorities. Schedule yourself to do less. • Set goals that are achievable. • Compartmentalize by focusing on one job at a time. • Make changes in you job routine. • Schedule fun. • Listen to your body!!! • Develop a detached concern.

  7. Manageing time • Set priorities with your time. • Keep an intermittent time log. • Plain daily, intermediate, and long term goals. • Keep a to-do list. • Plan activities. • Schedule your time realistically. • Improve communication skills. • Make big projects manageable. • Balance personal and professional life. • Organize your physical space. • Control interruptions and be willing to say “NO”.

  8. MEETINGS….the great “black hole” • Career Development…It’s up to you! • Individual responsibility • Organizational responsibility • Look at demand in the job market now and in the future. • Think about the skills that you may need down the road. • Alternatives in jobs • Flex scheduling • Job sharing • Telecommunications • Success….Depends on your goals and aspirations. Also, based on attitudes.

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