The Importance of Managing Stress! ...
For today's busy and on the go person, managing stress is not only important, it is critical! If stress is not handled properly, it can lead to poor performance, low morale, and poor health!
What do you do about stress? We recommend the following ways to deal with stress:

• Learn to identify your early stress warning signals. They can be such things as headaches, upset stomach, rapid heart beat, feeling of doom or despair, pain in the back, shoulders, arms, chest or neck. Once you have identified your early warning stress signs, take immediate action to reduce or eliminate the stress.

• Identify the activities or events in your life that bring on stress, such as deadlines, anxious or demanding customers, marital problems, and problems with your children, boss or co-workers. Change the activity that is causing your stress reactions or at least change your attitude about that event or activity.
Once you know your early warning signs and can identify the events that bring on stress, the following two steps will help you to successfully deal with the stress and the stressors.

• Relax. Studies have proven that we must learn to relax if we are to reduce or eliminate our stress. Relaxation tips includes: breathing techniques, light exercise - such as a short walk, immediately changing our activities to take us away from the stressor, a body relaxation technique that can be completed at your desk, in your car, or just about anywhere the stress hits you.

• Time Management. Believe it or not, most of the studies have proven that poor time management habits and skills bring on most stress. We live in a fast-paced world, and we tend to continue to pile on more work and commitments than we can actually handle. The better you are at mastering your time management, the lower your stress will be.

• Here are a few ideas that work: make a daily plan of the tasks that you must complete, learn techniques that help you to manage interruptions, telephone calls and deadlines and learn to work within your own biological prime time.