The Workplace Stress Solution

Your job's a joke, you're broke, your love life's D.O.A.? Most people have experienced mild workplace stress at some point in their careers, and it's not doing them any favors. Stress contributes to higher blood pressure and lower self esteem. This week we've got a three-step system to combating office stress and keeping you healthy and sane.

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[ltietjens]

This video is a great place to start.  Recognize that it takes effort to address the causes of your stress. It's not easy, but is worth it. The effort requires effective communication, ownership of your own contribution to the situation and willingness to change the circumstances you cannot correct and are damaging your health.  Eating right, exercise and sleep all help to keep things in perspective!

[thewoodshop]

Growth never happens in your comfort zone....l keep reminding myself.

[Kimmy-zrtu]

It’s important to identify the root of your stress. For my case, I guess I have to accept the stress and once I do that, feel better

[PullUps]

Coworkers. Coworkers are a source of stress.
Of course, you can never say that because you'll be labeled the problem person.

[cindyneufeld]

I worked for a company that kept adding more and more work to my already large workload, which was very stressful trying meet deadlines. I chose to except it for a for 6 months and then i finally removed myself as my Supervisor wasn't willing to hire anyone else to help with the high demands. Yes I would do it again only this time I I would remove myself right away as the stress was not worth it at all. I learned that stress is very bad for you and to avoid it when possible.

[JosephBales]

I'm in the same situation. My health has deteriorated rapidly over the past 4 months. I'm taking steps to move on.

[_samuraikiritanpo]

I've been working in a call center for 7 months, and it is stressful to handle customers.
While some complain about same things again and again others get angry for no reason.
Along with such stress, my salary is very low!! I think I would change my job by April 2021.

[jessicacandatatel]

Im very stressed out, emotionally drained it affects my daily routine 😖 got no proper sleep because of work that I cannot handle properly, pressures and expectations around me. I think I'll gonna die 😫.

[azharsaigh]

Dear Well Cast,

I am very glad that you are sharing such wonderful and uplifting videos. I have watched most of your videos and I assigned it to some of my students as extra credit.

Since my students are not native speaker of English, I wish there was a part where they can see the transcript of the video if possible.

All best for you our positive sun :)

[eli-kdlb]

who knew y’all would be getting me thru 5th grade and middle school 7-8 years ago and now y’all are helping me with my first job and now graduated. appreciate this channel sm :)

[mindfulnessasia]

How do we know that we are under extreme stress? When we feel tired, we are easily irritated. We cannot cope with simple tasks in a calm way. We are having problems handling normal situation in relationships. Everything becomes a problem, an obstacle. We are always trying to rush through things. We never slow down or stop. We feel like we are constantly bombarded by one thing after another.

[ushojedi]

This is a deep issue. As a baseline to comprehend what the underlying causes are cultures that lived exclusively with nature NEVER had stress, depression or suicides. The more we invite man mind elements into our life and go against nature the more these conditions develop.
The worst is a psychology of unnatural fear. Such as focusing on what could go wrong and if it does you will be punished. This is the entire psychological make up of Health and Safety. It reduces the individual to an inconvenience. Life becomes more about making sure something doesn't go wrong than focusing on what makes life enjoyable. This is the fundamental root cause of stress. To do this personal responsibility, awareness and free choice is denied and replaced by an authoritative voice. This causes depression. The worst of this is adults supervising children. This means they don't develop good cognitive strength and become stressed out worriers.
People then start to doubt more and more their own ability to function. Compounding this is a culture of warnings and alarms so we doubt even our own ability to see and hear. And now we're living so unnaturally we use carlights in daylight meaning we now collectivity doubt whether we can see. So people now subconsciously are told to worry about daylight.
This is all scientifically proven and researched. Health and safety as the workforce has told us is Mad. 40% of the British workforce feel they are mad, not just wrong, mad. As a result of policies that are scientifically proven to cause stress, mental illness, and depression being implemented there has been a corresponding rise in all of these things. Until we stop Health and Safety stress will never end.

[harry]

The cure for my stress is to quit this job I can't deal with this anymore yes I am weak whatever you wanna call me but I need my long overdue break

[RichRich]

I had a work peer dreaming up remarks targeting me to simply destroy my will. He'd come over start some small talk then enter the remark. I eventually would just grab some headphones on put them on to ignore him. Worked great!

[maggie]

My workplace stress is too much overtime and working too many weekends. I’ve worked weekends for almost a year. Another stressor is too much workload and getting criticized for petty stuff. Like today I was told I had to write my full name on my paperwork and not my initials. I responded with “you are telling me this now after 3 years?” Can’t help me with feeling overworked but can point out I need to write my full name. No good job or anything ever.

[katesteckmest]

Hello, This is a great video, and would love to use it with my students. Do you have closed captioning available to make it accessible for more learners? Thank you!

[mingyuwu]

im stresses like i really needa try this out

[meditationmelody]

Imprint limits into your expert and individual life: In the present electronic world, it's definitely not hard to feel strain to be open 24 hours out of each day. Develop some work-life limits for yourself. That may mean creation a standard not to peruse email from home around evening time, or not getting the phone during supper time. Disregarding the way that people have different tendencies concerning the sum, they blend their work and home life, making some unquestionable cutoff points between these areas can decrease the potential for work-life difficulty and the weight that goes with it.
Strategies, for example, contemplation, profound breathing activities and care (a state where you effectively watch present encounters and musings without making a decision about them) can help soften away pressure. Start by taking a couple of moments every day to concentrate on a straightforward action like breathing, strolling or getting a charge out of a supper. The expertise of having the option to concentrate deliberately on a solitary action without interruption will get more grounded with training and you'll see that you can apply it to a wide range of parts of your life.
To maintain a strategic distance from the negative impacts of incessant pressure and burnout, at whatever point conceivable, get some much needed rest to unwind and loosen up, so you return to work feeling revitalized and prepared to perform at your best. At the point when you're not ready to get some much needed rest, get a speedy lift by killing your cell phone and concentrating on non-work exercises for some time.
Rather than going for an undesirable way of life like expending cheap food or liquor, settle on solid decisions when you feel the strain rises. Exercise is an extraordinary pressure buster. Yoga can be an astounding decision, however any type of physical action is advantageous. Getting enough great quality rest is additionally significant for viable pressure the board.

[laurencortinas]

Wow! So Simple to ""DEFUSE"" a work stress atmosphere!! Key word being defused!!!
Thank you Watchwellcast!!!

[adamzou]

Stress form on situations you can't avoid you have to endure, if you can easily solve the situation it won't even become stressful.