Stress Management - What Is Your Natural Strategy For Stress Management?

After all the stress management information around, Have you ever wondered, why not better manage stress? I have only one answer, and not a lack of effort. In fact, trying too hard to manage stress can actually cause the opposite and make the situation worse. Why? Since everyone has a natural strategy of stress - how they feel competent and is approaching the problem.

Strategies for natural stress fall into four categories.

Creative

Grounding

Logic

Centric relation

One of the first things I do with my clients is to help them identify their personal stress strategy profile. Once we fully develop the profile, they know what situations are likely to be the most stressful for them, where their strengths (and weaknesses) are and exactly how to build on their strengths while developing their skills most low. Highlights of the four strategies -

Creative strategy - You are intuitive and future-oriented. Easily manage multiple projects at once. You are a dreamer, and it will move about the change. In fact, a problem, you will think of many options to fix it, but may have trouble deciding on an option and actually put into practice.

Ground Strategy - You do one thing at a time, with special attention to detail. You focus on the present and the people you described as down to earth, practical and action oriented. When the situation requires new ideas, may experience stress.

Intuitive Strategy - You make decisions based on objective facts and to compare this quantitatively with the past. You're comfortable with numbers and formulas. When the situation requires attention to the dynamics of relationships, you may experience stress.

The report focused strategy - is the value of relationships and make decisions based on the emotional impact of your decision is the other. Tune with the seasons and is a cyclical concept of time .. Teamwork is important to you. When the situation requires it difficult to focus on a logical relationship, it could be stress.

So what's the problem? Nothing, except that sometimes the stress is not natural is the best strategy for a specific problem you are facing. An example may help here. Let's say you're a mechanic and a day to go to work and the boss says: "Today you are going to build a house, instead of having a complete set of great tools and you're an expert to use them There is no time pressure here - take as much time there is no need to do a really professional job ... "

Do you have a little stress? Of course, you! Why? Because they do not have the tools or the skills you need. Try to make the tools work only causes stress, and tried to make them work in more stress than I would. Would be helpful if there was no time pressure, because the only way to do a great job would be to go to woodworking tools and learn to use them.

The same thing happens the strategies of stress. If you're a creative type, your natural reaction to a problem is to think of alternatives. You may think you have more options than anyone else on this planet, but if the problem at hand requires carefully following the rules already in place, your natural approach to the problem is not going to help you achieve a solution. We need new tools and training in their use.

Each person has a unique combination of these strategies. There is no ideal strategy, and is unlikely to be completely balanced among the four. Even if you are weak in a strategy does not mean you can not use these skills, which only require more energy than you.

Even the most creative person can balance their checkbook, it just seems like a much more important to them than it does to a person whose natural strategy is a logical approach. Strategies to improve your weak will allow you to respond to stress in a more healthy and more efficient allowing you to spend more time doing what you want to do and less time to manage stress.