Organizing Stress
As per the suggestion in the course, a good way to handle stress is making a list of tasks and tackling them one by one. This ensures organization and tackles both short term and long term goals.
This is one method I personally use and have been using for many years. I like seeing my goals in front of me, and the task alone of making a list relieves some of my stress. However, sometimes I end up making list after list after list and find that very little gets done! How can this cycle of lists be prevented? Is it something you simply have to have a control on so you don't get warped into the cycle?
Neelam,
We can always if needed prioritize those items that need attention first. If the items coming at the end can be sent to the next meeting or handled by automation we should.
Dr. Gary Carlson
In regards to the initial question written by Neelam, is there ever a such thing as there becoming a point where we can be prioritizing incorrectly and actually continually putting things off because of an increased level of anxiety that is too high in the performance curve?
Krista,
Procrastination is often used to keep out the things that have higher priority than we would like to think. Putting things off may be a negative to success.
Dr. Gary Carlson
