Free Workshop on Stress Management & Resilience

• This podcast episode is a little trailer/sneak peek into the workshop I am hosting next week
• It's a free Workshop and you are invited
• The title is: Unshakable You - How to Build Resilience & Stress Management
• Sign up here👉https://www.cynthiaartemis.com/unshakable-you-sign-up

5 Stress Management Tips

#1 Undisturbed Focus time

• Schedule undisturbed focus time in your calendar
• Set your Teams/Slack status on do-not-disturb
• Commit to actually working on your operational tasks at that time
• Extra tip for my Entrepreneurs
  • Add alarms on your phone for each meeting of the day
  • 15 min prior to Zoom Calls
  • 30/60 min prior to in-person (fun/business) meetings

#2 Plan your meals

• When I know I have a stressful week ahead, I like to pre-plan my lunches
• It’s a 15-minute planning effort but saves me so much headspace I need for other things during the week
• What planning my meals is doing is: it reduces the decisions I need to make on that day
• Making decisions is taking mental effort

#3 Do something about it

• One (ideally) physical action to SNAP out of this mental and physical state
• Low key RESETS activities
  • A little dance break
  • Go for a lunch walk
  • Take a 3-minute break when you think "I can't take a break right now"
• Pro tip: Combine these RESET actions with errands/household things that would stress you out even more
• Intense RESET activities
  • Going for a 10-minute power run during your lunch break or when you finish work
  • Doing a short workout/yoga session for stress relief
  • Having a cold shower

#4 Kill the monster first

• Here we go, tip number 4: Kill the monster first
• Or if you're familiar with this productivity technique, it’s called “eating the frog”
• Basically this means:
  • Tackling the most important/nastiest task straight in the morning
  • Hand on your heart, this is the thing you will probably be thinking about non-stop throughout your whole day - anyway
  • So, do it at once and kill this big stressor

#5 Take ownership of your workplace

• I take a lot of energy from my surroundings but at the same time my surroundings can take energy from me
• So having a messy workplace full of junk, scraps of paper, and messy notes takes energy like crazy
• Make it pretty to look at, so your first association is not something negative
• Make it cozy, make it inviting, make it clean, and organized, so your thoughts can be clean and organized

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