Life changes, good and bad, bring on stress that can cause your body to react with physical, mental, and emotional
responses. Common causes of stress include:*Death of a loved one, *Confrontations, *Marriage *Deadlines, *Legal problems,
*Job loss, *Divorce, *New job, *Retirement, *Money problems, *Illness, *Parenting, *you name it.
Dealing with those life changes can leave you feeling crazy or scattered at times. Elizabeth Kubler Ross helps us understand the stages we go through as we adjust to change, especially if those changes were imposed on us. The key to coping is identifying those areas of your life being impacted by the changes causing stress then learning ways to adjust and reduce that stress. Life Coaching helps you take control of those changes so that you can continue to live life deliberately.
Key actions that you can take include:
Dealing with those life changes can leave you feeling crazy or scattered at times. Elizabeth Kubler Ross helps us understand the stages we go through as we adjust to change, especially if those changes were imposed on us. The key to coping is identifying those areas of your life being impacted by the changes causing stress then learning ways to adjust and reduce that stress. Life Coaching helps you take control of those changes so that you can continue to live life deliberately.
Key actions that you can take include:
Dealing with Life Changes
1. Take yourself out of harm’s way. If you want to lose weight, it makes sense to remove your favorite high-calorie foods
from the shelves, and to tell the waiter at restaurants not to bring the bread.
2. Whatever you feel compelled to do, don’t. When the pull is intense, it’s likely you’ve activated your fight-or-flight physiology. That’s great when you’re actually facing a life-or-death situation but in most life circumstances, it serves you better to reflect before you react.
3. Sleep as much as you must to feel fully rested. Fatigue undermines our capacity for self-control, and we’re more likely to default to instant gratification.
4. Do the most important thing first in the morning. That’s when the vast majority of us have the most energy and the fewest distractions. Our energy reservoir diminishes as the day wears on. Also the more focused you are, the higher the quality of work you’ll do, and the more you’ll get done.
5. Eat energy rich foods in small doses at frequent intervals. Food – specifically glucose – literally fuels willpower. We need to refuel at least every three hours.
7. Do one thing at a time. When you shift attention from one focus of attention to another, the average time it takes to finish the first task increases by at least 25%.
8. Work in sprints. Human beings aren’t meant to operate like computers, at high speeds, continuously. Rather, we’re designed to pulse between spending and renewing energy. Focus intensely, ideally without interruption, for no more than 90 minutes at a time. Then take a real break, for at least a few minutes, to relax emotionally, give the mind a rest and physically recharge.
9. Make more of your behaviors automatic. Because our willpower is so limited, our best defense is to rely on it less. A ritual is a highly precise behavior that you perform over and over, at a specific time, so it becomes automatic and no longer requires much willpower to get it done.
Schwartz, Tonhy. Master Plan for Taking Back Control of Your Life. Taken from http://99u.com/articles/7086/a-master-plan-for-taking-back-control-of-your-life
2. Whatever you feel compelled to do, don’t. When the pull is intense, it’s likely you’ve activated your fight-or-flight physiology. That’s great when you’re actually facing a life-or-death situation but in most life circumstances, it serves you better to reflect before you react.
3. Sleep as much as you must to feel fully rested. Fatigue undermines our capacity for self-control, and we’re more likely to default to instant gratification.
4. Do the most important thing first in the morning. That’s when the vast majority of us have the most energy and the fewest distractions. Our energy reservoir diminishes as the day wears on. Also the more focused you are, the higher the quality of work you’ll do, and the more you’ll get done.
5. Eat energy rich foods in small doses at frequent intervals. Food – specifically glucose – literally fuels willpower. We need to refuel at least every three hours.
7. Do one thing at a time. When you shift attention from one focus of attention to another, the average time it takes to finish the first task increases by at least 25%.
8. Work in sprints. Human beings aren’t meant to operate like computers, at high speeds, continuously. Rather, we’re designed to pulse between spending and renewing energy. Focus intensely, ideally without interruption, for no more than 90 minutes at a time. Then take a real break, for at least a few minutes, to relax emotionally, give the mind a rest and physically recharge.
9. Make more of your behaviors automatic. Because our willpower is so limited, our best defense is to rely on it less. A ritual is a highly precise behavior that you perform over and over, at a specific time, so it becomes automatic and no longer requires much willpower to get it done.
Schwartz, Tonhy. Master Plan for Taking Back Control of Your Life. Taken from http://99u.com/articles/7086/a-master-plan-for-taking-back-control-of-your-life