Part of a good Stress Management plan simply involves identifying the areas of stress in an individuals life. Taking an objective look at circumstances and situations that may seem unmanageable, can be a helpful first step in dealing with stress.
Once the areas that are causing the most stress have been identified, a plan to reduce the level of stress produced by each situation can begin to be formulated.
Often situations which create a large amount of stress can be eliminated completely. For those stressors which cannot be entirely eliminated, a plan to better manage the situation, so that the amount of stress produced is decreased significantly, is often helpful in relieving the overall amount of stress the person is feeling.
One of the most common sources of stress, for many people, is the habit that they have of not setting healthy limits on the amount of commitments they enter into.
Overextending oneself creates undue stress, and generally leads to exhaustion, burn out, and inevitably, failure to fulfill many of ones obligations. This failure is often perceived by the individual as a personal failure, creating feelings of guilt, shame and poor...