If you can manage a work life balance you will have success.
Being transparent telling about stress you are feeling in work or in personal time. This permits that you manage your stress moments.
Be sure to take care of yourself as a priority.
Learning to balance between work and family will help reduce stress if we do not then it will have negative effect on our productivity and health causing headache, upset stomach, back pain as well as high blood pressure.
It's easy to get overwhelmed with life in general. Do good at work and school, be a good parent and partner, work out, drink plenty of water, eat healthy....... and the list goes on. Self care is key and knowing you don't have to be perfect.
Stress comes from so many different angles and finding balance can be hard but manageable.
This module has shown me all the different types of stressors that can arise from your personal life and work life. The best way to cope is to write a stress list and set proper boundaries while communicating your needs to those around you.
Everything is stressful and impractical to meaningfully eliminate most of it even with the best of strategies.
I'm attempting to get back into the workforce after being a SAHM for 9 years. Even though I was in the classroom for 20 years prior to being at home, it is stressful to try to jump back in, especially after many of my family and life priorities have changed.
Importance of strategies to counteract the stress of work that will make me a better teacher
The idea of being honest and transparent about both work and personal stress.
I find this extremely humorous . Im a single father of two and work two jobs. students at my school are less than stellar for the most part but they all get 110% of my attention under my care. being an Expert in my field prior to switching to teaching, I found the easiest transitional portion was to be myself and set the standard for my students. Dont let them set it for me. I let them know what to expect of me and what I expect of them. Same goes for my children. Communication is key of lessening the stress. At that point, if those students make the active choice to fail, they make that choice on their own.
Stress has been shown to be part of the work and home environment.
Stress from different sources will accumulate and show up as signs and symptoms that further interfere with our time.
Personal interpretation of stress leads to a reduction in productivity and helath.
In this module I learned that it is important to be transparent about my stressors
In this moldule I learned that it is important to be transparent about your stressors and stgress level.
I have learned that having to many hats to where can stress and does stress me out and make me less effiecient. I need to cut down on a few things by first ID the things that stress me out and try to eliminate some of those things.
Reply to Patrick Gillam's post:
Putting the stressors in writing or quantifying them is one way of reducing stress
What stresses me out is juggling repsonsibilities, aside from great responsibilities I have great responsiblity also at home to take care of others. Commute , traffic and getting on time stresses me a lot if I am assigned to distant clinical sites.
