So, you are a working professional! Deadlines! Meetings! Appraisals! All seem to conspire against you to cause the dreadful disease called STRESS! Whereas there is no escape from this situation (unless of course if you quit your job; but that in itself is a much bigger stress!), there are ways to help tackle these problems.
Here are ten stress-buster tips to help you fight this problem while in office:
1. Clean up your work station
There isn’t a more engrossing activity than this. De-clutter your drawer, organise your files or archive your emails. Whatever be it, at the end of the session you certainly would have forgotten what bothered you so much that you started doing this. And, you get organised just by the way!
2. Share a status update on social networking sites
Share a status update on facebook or orkut. Check what others in your friends’ list are up to. Check your personal & forwarded emails. This freshens your mind and gets your jaw muscles exercised too! Forward them to your other friends & make them laugh too.
3. Have a coffee / snack-break
Just go to the vending machine and serve yourself a cup of caffeine. Healthier still, go munch a few biscuits or nuts!
4. Gossip
What a way to de-stress! Find out a couple of more stressed-out colleagues and get gossiping or cribbing about that insensitive boss or the new secy in office!
5. Take a walk
When really stressed out and want to get away from the office atmosphere. Go out in the lobby or walk down the staircase and breathe some fresh air!
6. Stand up & stretch your aching muscles
If you are fighting deadlines and do not have the luxury of time to de-stress, just stand-up and stretch out! Do some simple neck & back exercises. Take off your eyes from the laptop and just relax. You’ll be surprised to see the effect of these two minutes of stretching out! If however you have time, hit the gym (in case your office has one).
7. Read the news or bollywood gossip on the internet
When else will you fulfill your social obligation towards the media and the entertainment industry. After all they work so hard to cover ‘breaking news’ for us all the time! Else, simply browse the cyber space.
8. Play solitaire / minesweeper / clickomania
Why else were these games invented and installed in your computers? Play on!
9. Call up your spouse / friend / kid / parents
Good time to pick up the phone and talk to your family and friends. Ensuring optimum utilisation of office resources is your moral responsibility!
10. Plan for the weekend
Plan an exciting weekend. Book a movie or concert ticket. Or a road trip to an outstation destination for a weekend getaway! You’ll find yourself excited throughout the week!
(You may reach the author at richasinha22@gmail.com).
Here are ten stress-buster tips to help you fight this problem while in office:
1. Clean up your work station
There isn’t a more engrossing activity than this. De-clutter your drawer, organise your files or archive your emails. Whatever be it, at the end of the session you certainly would have forgotten what bothered you so much that you started doing this. And, you get organised just by the way!
Share a status update on facebook or orkut. Check what others in your friends’ list are up to. Check your personal & forwarded emails. This freshens your mind and gets your jaw muscles exercised too! Forward them to your other friends & make them laugh too.
3. Have a coffee / snack-break
Just go to the vending machine and serve yourself a cup of caffeine. Healthier still, go munch a few biscuits or nuts!
4. Gossip
What a way to de-stress! Find out a couple of more stressed-out colleagues and get gossiping or cribbing about that insensitive boss or the new secy in office!
When really stressed out and want to get away from the office atmosphere. Go out in the lobby or walk down the staircase and breathe some fresh air!
6. Stand up & stretch your aching muscles
If you are fighting deadlines and do not have the luxury of time to de-stress, just stand-up and stretch out! Do some simple neck & back exercises. Take off your eyes from the laptop and just relax. You’ll be surprised to see the effect of these two minutes of stretching out! If however you have time, hit the gym (in case your office has one).
7. Read the news or bollywood gossip on the internet
When else will you fulfill your social obligation towards the media and the entertainment industry. After all they work so hard to cover ‘breaking news’ for us all the time! Else, simply browse the cyber space.
8. Play solitaire / minesweeper / clickomania
Why else were these games invented and installed in your computers? Play on!
9. Call up your spouse / friend / kid / parents
Good time to pick up the phone and talk to your family and friends. Ensuring optimum utilisation of office resources is your moral responsibility!
10. Plan for the weekend
Plan an exciting weekend. Book a movie or concert ticket. Or a road trip to an outstation destination for a weekend getaway! You’ll find yourself excited throughout the week!
(You may reach the author at richasinha22@gmail.com).
Comments
Post a Comment