Stress
Stress. It's a word so overused in my vocabulary that people don't even react anymore when I mentioned it. :) They just give a shrug and complain about their own stress instead. :)
I have been thinking about this a lot this week. Especially because I have two weeks to my disposition to work for AIESEC, prepare the agenda for my new semester at University, work a bit more for ABB and have time to sleep long in the morning and relax. All in all, finish all the unfinished things and start the new semester full of energy.
Looking back at the last week I achieved quite a lot of things, but I'm still far from where I want to be. And instead of being relaxed, I'm so tense that my head is aching.
First I was wondering, if once more I'm expecting too much from myself. But looking at the list, it's very much feasible.
Then I'm wondering where the problem is lying?
I actually like being under pressure and stressed. I would be lying if it said it was otherwise. I performe well under pressure and I like having a full programme. But I guess, as shown in the graphic below, I'm too quickly moving into the "negative stress zone", into disorganization.
What I have to do is to get better organized and improve the efficency. And relax inbetween. Well, I've seen on other blogs that people use the blog to do just this. What I wanna do next week is to have so called "killer-hours", where I work efficiently for one or two hours and then have time to do other things like jogging or meeting friends afterwards. I will put down the planning tomorrow and make myself accountable with this blog.So, let's beginn this experiment.
posted by Sara @ 17:27
4 Comments:
you ARE one crazy girl, constantly on overdrive! I know you're capable to do a lot just make sure you keep it in the optimal area please...
good luck with the increase in efficiency, I shall try out some strategies myself :-)
gran abrazo!
i for my part found out that when i say to myself that i need to reduce my stress level i get even more stressed because i put even more pressure on myself. not giving you advice here just sharing my experience. i then choose to have another perspective on it: i'm not stressed but just busy. instead of stressing myself by trying to improve my work-life balance i say to myself that this is a stupid concept anyway. to live means to work and to work means to live.
wish you good luck and i'm sure you will manage everything just great like everything so far. :)
hehe, I can so relate to that post ;)
As good as your strategy looks, it won't work for me. Only a fraction of the stuff that I "need" to do can be done from our office. The rest depends on the availablity of my parents' car and the working hours of our interns ;)
sounds interesting, let me know how it goes and maybe i can adopt the strategy... nah, who am i kidding; i cant work like you :P
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