Worrying at the work place is more or less unavoidable nowadays, especially on jobs that work on targets and deadlines. Today corporate counsellor and psychologist Shivani Misri Sadhoo shares tips on how to control anxiety at the workplace.
1. Prioritize your office tasks. Make a list of tasks you have to do, and tackle them in order of importance. Do the high-priority items first. If you have something particularly unpleasant to do, get it over with early. The rest of your day will be more pleasant as a result.
2. Practice responsibility delegate. You don’t have to do it all yourself. If other people can take care of the task, why not let them? Let go of the desire to control or oversee every little step. You’ll be letting go of unnecessary stress in the process.
3. It’s never too late to learn breathing exercises or pranayama in yoga. Breathing exercises not only help us to stay mentally and physically fit but it also helps us to control anxieties, bad mood, concentration problems etc.
4. Invest your mental energies on innovations rather on worries: don’t waste your time on worrying what worst could happen rather invest your mental energies to analyse what made you miss your deadlines, what was annoying your boss, what makes you repeat your mistakes, is there an innovative solution to overcome the problem and figure out how can you convince your management and ask for a second chance.
5. Write down your worries in a worry log – If you find that worries are churning around inside your mind, write them down in a notebook or "worry log," and then schedule a time to deal with them. Before that time, you can forget about these worries, knowing that you'll deal with them. When it comes to the time you've scheduled, conduct a proper risk analysis around these things, and take whatever actions are necessary to mitigate any risks.
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