I believe that stress management is one of the things I'm learning and perfecting in so many ways. My work warrants having good stress management skills because things can get incredibly tedious and when things become that way, it can get overwhelming. Yeah... It can also get frustrating.
I've been there before and I know it's not a good feeling. That's exactly why I try as much as possible to have a better understanding of myself so it will be easier for me to identify the things that heighten my stress level and work out better ways to manage the stress I experience.
For obvious reasons, preventing myself from getting too stressed is also part of the practice. Prevention, they say, is better than cure. Right? That's a message that stands tall and points to the facts whenever stress management is on the line.
One of the ways to go about it is;
If you are usually stressed while doing something or about anything, you can stop getting involved with that. If someone stresses you up, you can stop getting involved with that 'someone'.
It's as simple as you want it to be. But, let's think about that for a minute.
Do you want to quit everything that has some level of stress attached to it? How about people? Will you stop dealing with anyone that stresses you up? Oh! What if that person is your partner or your child? Good luck with it!
My point is that it's not uncommon to hear people say stuff like 'quit anything that has some level of stress attached to it'. However, I don't want to be a carrier of that sort of message. For the record, it's not very obvious that anyone will get to live a meaningful life if they ever get into the habit of running away whenever they notice that some level of stress is attached to anything.
Lemme tell you about the most recent activity that got me stressed.
For the vast majority of this month until this very moment, I've been a very busy bee with each passing day. I've had so much work to do online and offline and it's been really interesting because I've had to tweak my schedule consistently to make sure that I won't get 'too stressed' up to the point of experiencing a breakdown.
Not sure if I achieved that though. I got broken a couple of times and life got tough in so many ways. It got to the point where I sleep by 1am and wake up by 3am and the next thing on my mind is to do one work or another so I would be able to cover much stuff on my to-do.
When stress comes in this form, the way to walk around it is always simple... I remind myself to never overcomplicate something that's already complicated.
However, some things can get beyond my control. The issue of electricity distribution is one of those. It's been rather uncomfortable to cope with that since last week. Imagine not having up to 30 minutes of electricity supply within the last 10 days. Yah! That's not cool at all. It gets worse when you consider the fact that most of the things I do are online.
I've always been aware of the inconsistency we experience with electricity and I've made provisions for alternative means of powering up my gadgets. However, 10 days without electricity is no joke and the effect of that compounded a lot of stress on me. It affected my online presence and messed up my schedule.
I had to improvise and readjust my day-to-day activity and I'm still doing so till this very moment. However, I hope that the electricity supply drama will come to an end. Once the issue is fixed, my stress level will go down massively and the rest would be things that are within my control.
Here is the thing though... If I try my best and there is just no way to work around it, I may end off staying offline for a few hours due to the power supply. I'm sure I won't enjoy that, but I won't allow that to compound more stress for me. Life is just cooking. And, I'm doing my BEST to not get burnt.
Thanks For Not Missing Any Full-stop Or Comma.
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