Your looks are suffering from not using time management properly to manage stress. Those dark circles under your eyes from lack of sleep? That recent weight gain from fast-food dinners and not working out? Shortness of breath from panic attacks? This is caused not only by the stress, but by not having the time to actually address and get rid of the stress. And it’s not just workplace anxiety that needs to have time managed. Every area of your life demands your time. Every area of your life has stress. Every area of your life suffers if the stress overwhelms the time you have.
Using aggressive time management can relieve help these problems. Managing your time in the face of stress helps you stay on your diet or your fitness routine. This goes a long way towards managing the physical symptoms of anxiety attacks. Having a stress management system that uses time management to force time to be healthy will actually make fighting stress all the easier.
Here are 5 ways to use time to stay focused on health in the face of stress:
1. Make time for fitness and diet priorities over distractions. By utilizing aggressive scheduling, you can say “no” to time wasting distractions, and schedule them to be addressed at the proper time.
2. Be accurate in your scheduling. Don’t put aside 20 minutes for the 20 minute workout, if it takes 30 minutes to get to the gym and 30 minutes to change.
3. Delegate non-priority tasks. If the task can be done by someone else, assign it to them. Just don’t give the perception that they are doing it so you can go workout! Do it tactfully.
4. Set aside time for planning. Too much stress is caused by reacting to situations. By setting aside time to analyze and plan, you save time in the long run.
5. Rearrange your workout schedule. Maybe move it from early morning to after work. Or from daily to 4 times per week.
If you don’t do set aside time for your health, the answer to “how does stress affect health” will be “worse and faster.” The signs symptoms of panic attacks can cause many health problems. If the stress is allowed to take up your working out time, the stress will affect your health much worse. Which will reduce your ability to fight stress. Which will make the stress worse. And so on. And so on. It may be difficult to get your time under control. It’s a lot harder trying to get your time under control in a stressful situation and feeling lousy about it.
Time management is an integral part of what to do to relieve stress. Too often, it is presented as the solution to stress management. Granted, it is a large part of the solution. But this is not enough. That’s like saying sticking to your diet will eliminate anxiety attacks. It will make them easier. But it won’t make them go away. And it won’t let you find the opportunities that lie in every stressful situation. Using a comprehensive stress management system which includes time management throughout will eliminate the bad effects of stress on your physical appearance and actually make you better looking! Picture your life when stress is not a concern and where you are the leader in stressful situations. To see exactly how you can do this, go to What to do to relieve stress. STRESS JUDO was developed by Rick Carter, a trial lawyer and martial artist. The courtroom has emotional and intellectual stress, and the dojo and fight ring has physical and psychological stress. It was to handle these stresses that STRESS JUDO was developed, to give you a fighting chance against stress, to turn stressful situations into opportunities.