Step by step Summary guide to stress and business management

    Stress results from demands that exceed our coping ability and threaten something important.

2.      Stress is debilitating; it is associated with serious illness and early death.

3.       Stress also results in poor decision making.

4.      The most common causes of stress are:

— overload or under load, quantitative or qualitative;

— Relationships and responsibility for others;

— being driven to succeed;

— Major transitions and daily hassles.

5.      Stress is frequently accompanied by anxiety and depression.

6.      Anxiety produces over-sensitivity to threat, hence ‘threat rigidity’.

7.       Depression results in perceived helplessness.

8.       Depression can be nature’s way of forcing you to slow down.

9.       Since stress results from lack of control, the antidote is taking charge by:

— practicing time management;

— installing management systems;

— prioritizing work;

— delegating;

— taking responsibility for yourself;

— managing expectations;

— practicing emotional detachment.