Tips to Deal with Stress and Increase Productivity Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes Happiness Isn’t Brain Surgery Podcast Causes of Stress ~ Politics ~ Relationships ~ Finances ~ Work Environment ~ Too Many Responsibilities ~ Health Problems ~ Unhappiness with Appearance ~ Common effects of stress on your body ~ Headache ~ Muscle tension or pain ~ […]

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Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes

Happiness Isn’t Brain Surgery Podcast

Causes of Stress

~ Politics

~ Relationships

~ Finances

~ Work Environment

~ Too Many Responsibilities

~ Health Problems

~ Unhappiness with Appearance

~ Headache

~ Muscle tension or pain

~ Chest pain

~ Fatigue

~ Change in sex drive

~ Stomach upset

~ Sleep problems

~ Anxiety

~ Restlessness

~ Lack of motivation or focus

~ Feeling overwhelmed

~ Irritability or anger

~ Sadness or depression

~ Overeating or undereating

~ Angry outbursts

~ Drug or alcohol abuse

~ Tobacco use

~ Social withdrawal

~ Exercising less often

~ Identify what is important

~ Take active, mindful steps to use your energy in productive ways

~ Get recharged

~ Who and what is important in your life

~ Family?

~ Attending kids events?

~ Spending quality time/visiting family?

~ Friends?

~ Your career?

~ Pets?

~ Hobbies?

~ Achieving certain financial or career goals?

Mindfulness

~ How can I deal with this issue in a way that helps me get closer to those things and people who are important to me. (Accept it, Let it go, Address It)

~ Politics

~ Relationships

~ Finances

~ Work Environment

~ Too Many Responsibilities

~ Health Problems

~ Unhappiness with Appearance

~ What thoughts am I having about this situation that are moving me further away from those things and people who are important to me?

~ How can I change those thoughts

~ Set aside a certain amount of time to read the news and/or be on social media each day. (preferably not before bed)

~ Be aware of the availability heuristic and the algorithms of social media

~ If certain topics bother you on social media—don’t respond to them or tell the provider you don’t want to see that in your feed.

Set Aside Venting/Worry Time

~ It is easy to get caught in a negative funhouse.

~ Set aside time each day to just get it out, but then, when the time is up, you are done.

Create Healthy Routines

~ Sleep

~ Nutrition

~ Exercise

~ Recreation

Effective Time Management

~ What actually “HAS” to be done

~ What can be delegated

~ What can be simplified

~ What can be combined

Develop Focus

~ Know your temperament

~ Visualize the day

~ Create a task list

~ Schedule in certain no-interruption times

~ Know your task and before saying yes to anything, check in to see if saying yes will enhance or reduce your movement toward your goal.

~ Work with your rhythms

~ Check in periodically how are you feeling? What are you needing? Sometimes it is better to take the day off and recharge then muddle through and be totally unproductive.

~ Listen to understand not solve or defend

~ Ask instead of tell

Address a Burnout Environment

~ Too many demands without enough support

~ Can you enlist support from others?

~ Can you reduce your demands?

~ Little or no control

~ What parts do you have control over?

~ No sense of community

~ How can you develop community?

~ Lack of appreciation

~ How can you show yourself appreciation?

~ How can you encourage others to show appreciation (HINT: Model it)

~ Can you make it more fair?

~ Can you change the situation?

~ Lack of security in your situation

~ Imagine the

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