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Stress And Personal Mastery

April 3, 2023 John Uncategorized No comments

Along with all the stress you face in today’s world you’re hearing about lots of ways you can deal with it. But have you ever thought of looking toward personal mastery for relief?

Come along with us for today’s GenuLines look at personal mastery.

Stress And Personal Mastery

Stress is an emotional and physical response that we show towards different pressures. These can be from the workplace, school or other institutions.

The reactions would include inability to focus and concentrate, headache and fast heartbeat. Almost everybody develops stress, but how we deal with it is important.

Personal mastery is something that you can put to work to help you to deal with stress.

Your work environment can be a major stressor, but this is something you may not be able to control. Instead of trying to control the work environment, you can try to work around it.

A Little At A Time

You can take one step at a time towards your goals. The question is, how do you work in the midst of stress?

You can reduce the risks by seeing things in a new perspective. An example would be learning to let go of situations you don’t control.

You can push back against stress by turning it into positive energy. This way you’ll focus your energy on things you can control.

Emotions

Personal mastery also helps you to be familiar with your emotions and learn how to control them. This attitude could be a great help in overcoming and managing stress.

There are things you can change, while there are things that are beyond your control.

Failing to deal with the problem during its early stages can lead to chronic stress. This can bring on headaches, ulcers, indigestion, high blood pressure and heart issues.

Deal With It

Actually there are simple steps and tips that you can do.

*Saying no to commitments that would require time and energy.

*Regular exercise, especially stretching and breathing exercises.

*Meditation

*Eating healthy food

*Asking for help from other people to lessen the burden.

To deal with stress, you can reduce the stressors in your life to avoid feeling its effects.

Prevention

Stress prevention removes the possibility of stress to occur.

You have to know and understand your limits. Next you’ll have to learn how to say no.

It’s important that you know your limitations, but still accept what other people say to you.

At Work and Then Some

Personal mastery can help you focus on your work among other things. It mitigates effects and encourages peace, tranquility and spirituality.

You can incorporate stress reduction and prevention in daily life.

Some people turn to medication to deal with the symptoms. This could be disabling, and it usually fails to address the real issue.

Yes medication could lessen the effects, but it’s more likely they’ll come back. With personal mastery, you change your entire outlook and perspective in life.

This guides you to avoid anything that could stress you and wear you out.

JohnK 4-3=2023

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Overheard: “The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another”

~William James

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Trouble Staying Focused? This Might Help

December 13, 2021 John Uncategorized No comments

Your focus needs to be laser-like. But for some reason it tends to wander. These few reminders from GenuLines will help keep you on the beam.

Trouble Staying Focused? This Might Help

We all have days when we’re struggling to stay focused on our work. One of the first things you should look at is distractions.

Various things and people can keep us from concentrating and getting work done. Let’s look at what shape and form these distractions may take and what you can do to lose them.

Then we’ll look at how you can get back to staying focused.

Physical Distractions

First the obvious. There can be all sorts of things that distract you in your office, or around your desk. This could be your phone blinking each time you get a new social media alert or email.

It could be your email program on your laptop notifying you of incoming messages. It could be your phone ringing, or that pile of files sitting on the corner of your desk that you know you need to deal with.

If you’re working at home it could also be that sink full of dirty dishes. Or the washing machine beeping to let you know it’s finished.

The key here is to realize that you’re in control of your work space. Turn your phone to silent and stick it in a drawer, or lay it upside down while you’re working.

Turn off the phone’s ringer, and either deal with the files now, or stick them in a drawer until you can take a look at them. Cut out the physical distractions as much as possible.

Then work on staying focused and getting your work done. The key here is also to make a conscious choice of when to deal with things that tend to interrupt you.

Distracting People

People who show up and distract you can be a little harder to deal with. You need to work with others.

You want to cultivate friendships. And there are times when you have to deal with a family situation, no matter how big a work deadline you have looming.

Setting expectations helps. So does making it clear that there are times when you need to shut your office door.

If you can set aside a time and make a schedule of sorts. Let people know when you must work without interruption.

At other times having an open door can help. This works well with co-workers, but also with family and friends.

Mental Distractions

Last but not least there are mental distractions. They can be the trickiest to keep at bay since there’s not a lot you can do to shut them out completely.

Thoughts will pop into your head and do their best to distract you. It helps to keep a notepad nearby.

You can jot those thoughts down. Later you can go back and check on things after you’re done with your task.

For example, if you’re worried if your check cleared, make a note.

Then get back to work.

Check your online bank account during your break.

By writing it down, you don’t have to worry about remembering to do it.

JohnK 12-13-2021

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