Make Your Job Stress Free

Kavita spends 9-10 hours every day in her worn out office chair, which isn’t great for her backache  by the way. She attends to multiple customer complaints by the minute, and often gets an earful from her demanding boss. The recession has put her job in danger as her company has laid off many senior employees, hiring freshers at low salaries. Kavita is competing for her job with youngsters who have high levels of energy and motivation. As if all this isn’t enough, she is also supposed to upgrade her professional knowledge and take some exams every 6 months, and she has NO time!

Does this sound a little bit like your story? Are you also battling with various stressful conditions at your job, while trying to balance your personal and professional lives? Is “job stress” taking a toll on your physical and mental health? If yes, then please don’t let this happen to you anymore. Take a deep breath, relax and read on…

What Is Job Stress?

Job stress is condition caused by negative conditions at the workplace, which affect the general well being of an individual. It may lead to anxiety, depression, mental or physical fatigue etc. Apart from these, other symptoms may include absenteeism, marital discord, insomnia, lack of concentration, unhappiness, anger, frustration, physical ailments like hypertension and heart disease etc.

Job Stress is useful to a point, as it provides motivation for better performance. But if unchecked, it leads to the symptoms mentioned above, apart from a drastic decline in job performance.

How To Deal With Job Stress?

• Get an Ergonomic Chair. This is very important for people who work long hours sitting in an office chair.

• Breathing Exercises can be done for relaxation, every few hours while at work. It takes no equipment, just 5 minutes of deep breathing every 2 hours!

• Take a Walking Break at least once in your working hours. Get out of your chair and walk around the office. If you can do it in the lunch break, go out and get some fresh air to rejuvenate yourself.

• Don’t Blame Yourself if something goes wrong at work. Mistakes happen, it’s only human. Learn to forgive yourself, like you forgive others.

• Overcome your Anger. Anger is perhaps the most useless and negative emotion. Learn to let go of it, so that you can think fresh and positive thoughts that help in improving performance.

• Stop Judging People around you. Try to accept people as they are and be more friendly and approachable.

• Don’t be in a Hurry all the time. Ponder a little before making decisions. Most hastily made decisions run the risk of being bad for you.

• Don’t Stagnate in a boring old job where you have no possibilities of growth. If nothing seems to be working, switch to a new job where you can learn new things and grow professionally.

• Make a Decision that you won’t carry your job stress home. When you are at home, relax and have fun with your loved ones. Don’t let the tensions from your work ruin your personal life.

The most important thing is that you should leave all the stress behind when you leave for your home. Living a stress free life is good for your physical and mental health. So leave all your tensions and live a stress free life at home and at work!