How to Reduce Your Stress and Increase Emotional-Mental Clarity
Stress is personal and cultural. It is costly to quality of life, payroll costs, health premiums, quality of decisions, and key relationships. Indirect costs include turnover, loss of creative contribution, disconnection to hope, loss of a sense of belonging, and broken links to collective contribution. The employees who can help a company see ahead are often found on stress leave or are absent.
Reducing stress is a set of practices that start at a personal level, and then spread quickly. Nothing travels faster than emotion.
Companies are responsible for rethinking how they manage, to remove fear and force from their management style and governance model. Individuals are responsible for managing inner-world emotions, with the aim to be present at home and at work.
Tips for Work
1. Take Your Meeting for a Walk: If you work in an office, too much time in a chair reduces your focus, and attention, relaying stress to your body. Structure your agenda to allow time for a walkabout on a question the team is pondering. Then go for a walk preferably outdoors, especially if it is a task requiring creative thinking. You don’t need to focus directly on the question directly. When you get back, you’ll be surprised how many ideas present themselves. The subconscious…
