Stress Management – Eliminate Stress By Adding Balance To Your Schedule

Living in balance means choosing how you spend your time, your energy you’re your money. The most effective action you can take is to prioritize and make sure you don’t overdo in any one area or totally ignore other areas of your life.

Start by setting healthy limits.  For instance, think about how you balance exercise food intake.  Are you allowing a day of exercise to be the excuse to overindulge in a fast food meal or a poor snack choice?  Consistently is the key.  There was a time when I wasn’t consistent with anything and wondered why the weight refused to release.  What I recently taught myself is “it’s not about how I feel.”  If I exercised when I felt like it I would never exercise.  If I made good food choices when I felt like it that wouldn’t happen either.  In order to stay balanced, I don’t over indulge in any one area. I set limits for myself so that I can stay healthy.

Just as I do with my nutrition and exercise choices I find that balancing my responsibilities is my business exercise. When I stay the course, I burn off the excess weight of busywork or distractions. My life feels more fulfilling when I replace busywork with meaningful tasks.

So how else can you balance your life?

Remove anxiety from your diet and replace it with careful planning. Balance your duties by filling out a weekly and monthly planner.  You won’t see where you’re going if you don’t.  It will cause random starts and stops without a good feeling of accomplishment.  If you see that you have too many tasks on one day,  stop adding responsibilities to be realistic about what you can do and what is unreasonable to do.  Also, be practical about what is necessary to do for your business and what you need to do today for your business.

Sometimes you have to say “no” to some things. Other times you simply have to say “not now.” If you tried to do it all you would burn yourself out and experience overwhelm and stress.

You have to be reasonable about your own expectations. If others place unreasonable expectations on you, replace them with realistic ones.   Take on reasonable challenges.  Realistic challenges are encouraging when you exceed expectations.  How many times have you heard just send out this email and you will triple your business.  When you set your expectation too high or the expectation is unrealistic this causes you to be discouraged and more stressed if things don’t work out

A moderate amount of stress is good, but when you feel like your getting buried under pressure, you know it’s time to re-evaluate your diet.  There is a difference between taking on a challenge and simply taking on too much.

Clarity Questions:

 How can I balance my schedule?

1. What busywork can I eliminate from my life?
2. Are my priorities reflected in the way I spend my time, energy and money?

Let me know how you balance your life and your business.  We’re in this together!