Less stress for more efficiency and well-being!
18 January 2018
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By definition, stress is the set of responses of an organism subjected to pressures or constraints from its environment.
This element is now an integral part of our working lives. It even seems to be increasingly one of the main drivers. Overwork, pressure from deadlines and objectives, managing competitiveness, and the pursuit of excellence are all causes of stress in the professional environment.
When it is positive, stress increases performance and helps to surpass oneself to meet the challenges and difficulties that our professions and professional environment confront us with.
However, in excessive doses and poorly managed, it becomes harmful to the body and mind. It is easily identified by its causing a significant decrease in production capacity as well as a loss of motivation. By triggering both physical and emotional reactions, stress becomes a danger for both the employee and the company.
Here are a few tips to apply daily to help you identify negative stress and regulate it
Listen to the signals sent by your body!
Often, the physical reminds us bluntly what the mind is struggling to hide. Slight drops in all kinds of regimes, difficulty or even loss of concentration, blinking eyelids, quick annoyance, nervousness, indifference, recurrent or chronic fatigue, slight incomprehensible melancholy, etc. From the lightest to the heaviest signals, your body is calling for help. Know how to listen to it and respect it.
Identify your moments of energy and juggle with them. If, for example, you are a morning person, it is at this precise moment that you should schedule your appointments and complete important files. Keep less arduous, more pleasant tasks that require less involvement for the end of the day.
Take breaks in the middle of your rushes!
As banal as it is to say, it is often difficult to put into practice, breaks. They are necessary every two hours. Know how to relieve your stress, for a few minutes, by drinking tea or joking with a colleague who is taking theirs. Clear your mind completely. Stretch, close your eyes for a few seconds that are tired from the harsh brightness of your computer… These minutes must be entirely yours. Brief but intense. Remember that if you use them to make personal phone calls, you remain excited. The benefit will be less.
Make priority lists!
No need to think you're a superhero. Despite your rare and fierce will, despite the pressure of the files piling up, you can't work 24 hours a day! Nor catch up at night what you didn't have time to finish during the day. Remember to make well-organized lists that take into account your requirements as well as your biological rhythm and respect them. Organization is second nature, a saving nature.
Work on your breathing!
Breathe. The best way to relieve pressure is the simplest: just work on your breathing. This oxygenates the cells and cleanses tensions. Regular physical activity can also be an excellent solution to release your positive energies.
Try optimism!
Indeed, let your mind wander and imagine yourself in a successful situation.
Projecting yourself in this way into the positive will allow you to chase away those dark and anxiogenic ideas that ultimately lead to stress and loss of self-confidence. To do this, know how to list the achievements you are proud of, dare to be self-satisfied, learn to put things into perspective.
There are no miracle cures for managing stressful situations, especially since it is indeed impossible to eliminate stress from our lives. However, we must learn to tame it in order to live better with it.
Philippe Montant
General Manager ReKrute
This element is now an integral part of our working lives. It even seems to be increasingly one of the main drivers. Overwork, pressure from deadlines and objectives, managing competitiveness, and the pursuit of excellence are all causes of stress in the professional environment.
When it is positive, stress increases performance and helps to surpass oneself to meet the challenges and difficulties that our professions and professional environment confront us with.
However, in excessive doses and poorly managed, it becomes harmful to the body and mind. It is easily identified by its causing a significant decrease in production capacity as well as a loss of motivation. By triggering both physical and emotional reactions, stress becomes a danger for both the employee and the company.
Here are a few tips to apply daily to help you identify negative stress and regulate it
Listen to the signals sent by your body!
Often, the physical reminds us bluntly what the mind is struggling to hide. Slight drops in all kinds of regimes, difficulty or even loss of concentration, blinking eyelids, quick annoyance, nervousness, indifference, recurrent or chronic fatigue, slight incomprehensible melancholy, etc. From the lightest to the heaviest signals, your body is calling for help. Know how to listen to it and respect it.
Identify your moments of energy and juggle with them. If, for example, you are a morning person, it is at this precise moment that you should schedule your appointments and complete important files. Keep less arduous, more pleasant tasks that require less involvement for the end of the day.
Take breaks in the middle of your rushes!
As banal as it is to say, it is often difficult to put into practice, breaks. They are necessary every two hours. Know how to relieve your stress, for a few minutes, by drinking tea or joking with a colleague who is taking theirs. Clear your mind completely. Stretch, close your eyes for a few seconds that are tired from the harsh brightness of your computer… These minutes must be entirely yours. Brief but intense. Remember that if you use them to make personal phone calls, you remain excited. The benefit will be less.
Make priority lists!
No need to think you're a superhero. Despite your rare and fierce will, despite the pressure of the files piling up, you can't work 24 hours a day! Nor catch up at night what you didn't have time to finish during the day. Remember to make well-organized lists that take into account your requirements as well as your biological rhythm and respect them. Organization is second nature, a saving nature.
Work on your breathing!
Breathe. The best way to relieve pressure is the simplest: just work on your breathing. This oxygenates the cells and cleanses tensions. Regular physical activity can also be an excellent solution to release your positive energies.
Try optimism!
Indeed, let your mind wander and imagine yourself in a successful situation.
Projecting yourself in this way into the positive will allow you to chase away those dark and anxiogenic ideas that ultimately lead to stress and loss of self-confidence. To do this, know how to list the achievements you are proud of, dare to be self-satisfied, learn to put things into perspective.
There are no miracle cures for managing stressful situations, especially since it is indeed impossible to eliminate stress from our lives. However, we must learn to tame it in order to live better with it.
Philippe Montant
General Manager ReKrute
