One of the most prominent aspects of Anxiety is that I can hit you anywhere. When hits you at your workplace, it is really devastating as by this you will lose your day,s tasks and productivity. This is something that you wish to avoid and the reasons are,
- You want to avoid the negative aspects of anxiety.
- You want to save your day for your tasks completion.
Today I will talk to you, how you can handle anxiety at your workplace so that you can save one precious day of your life.
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Stress and Anxiety if triggers you at the workplace is more critical as due to this you will be unable to complete your day's tasks and having an undesired end of the day will mean more Stress and anxiety. In addition due to work time anxiety, you will be unable to have a professional image and trust by the organisation, that you are serving.
Coming to our topic, now how you can deal with this, here I have tried to collect some workable tips that I am sure will helps you to avoid anxiety at your mid of the day or at the workplace.
IDENTIFY WHAT IS IGNITING YOUR ANXIETY
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The signs of anxiety are something that is very much clear like sweet palms, more heartbeat, a crash of your mental energy by negative thoughts, fears and phobia along with tightness in your chest. But all this is not revealing its cause.
So, do one thing at your first, identify the cause when you feel such symptoms. It may be when you discuss your performance with your boss, when you are advancing your subordinate or when you are communicating with your coworkers. Make it specific, this will helps you. Now come to the second step.
LOOK FOR QUICK SOLUTIONS
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Once you make it specific about the cause of your anxiety, now think about how you can make some easy and quick solutions. If the anxiety is due to some of your coworkers, then make maximum feasibility to avoid that coworker. You may not do the same with your boss, or your subordinate as you have to communicate with him. But in this case, it has also a solution, makes more written communication as compared to the oral one. By this, you will avoid the emotional aspect of your communication and this will be a great tip for at least reducing the anxiety.
Now, let's talk about, what to do it the anxiety has already hit you and you want to relax so that you have a productive day. this will be
BRING ANXIETY OUR OF YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS INTO FOCUS POINT
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This is simple when you feel anxious, you should take a small break of 10- 15 minutes and make yourself relax by deep breathing, listen to some light music and a lot more ways. Then ask yourself, what are that factors that are making you stressed and anxious. Better to write down it on a paper. Believe me, when you bring your inside anxiety on a piece of paper, it will be of so much seriousness as it was when it was inside you. Secondarily, you will feel that you have a better control over this situation and can cope with it.
MAKE SMART CHANGES IN YOUR ROUTINE
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This point is also very helpful, if you want to be in better control of your stress and anxiety, you have to opt for some very positive physical habits like having the gathering with your friends at evening, having a morning walk, having a pet and a lot more. You may also opt for some gym simple workouts, Yoga and meditations, this all will helps you to make your thinking little diversified and you will not be thinking about the stress all the time, that is making the situation more stressful.
RESET YOUR BRAIN
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This is also a very effective way to make your mental strength strong so that I cannot be affected by anxiety so adversely. Resetting the brain is the small breaks with a cup of hot coffee at work, a five-minute gossip with your best coworker. But in presenting your brain, your weekends makes a lot of difference. Having an activity of 3- 5 hours, this activity should be out of routine, will help you a lot in making your brain fresh and stress-free. This may wash your brain from the stress of all the week.
YOU HAVE A JOB THAT HAS A VALUE
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Thinking about this will give a new meaning to your anxiety and this new meaning will motivate you. Whenever feeling stress at the workplace, think about the value of your job that it has for your family financial freedom. From another aspect, like if you are in a service industry job, then how much customer satisfaction is important for your professional survival. You can think more about as per your work and your external environment.
SHARE IT
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This is easy and this is great. Share your concerns with your friends, in social or professional spheres or even with your family. This will lessen the burden of your stress and in addition, when your stress will be out of your body, this will make you feel that the challenge is not only with you. All that is surrounding you have same or something like these challenges and they are dealing with it proactively and with fewer worries.
