{"id":6312,"date":"2019-01-11T14:00:38","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T14:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/?p=6312"},"modified":"2019-01-11T18:21:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T18:21:00","slug":"9-simple-ways-to-ease-work-stress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/9-simple-ways-to-ease-work-stress\/","title":{"rendered":"9 Simple Ways to Ease Work Stress"},"content":{"rendered":"

We all know work-related stress is a near constant in modern life. Success at work<\/a> drives our lives and shapes our fate, so a certain amount of white-knuckling is to be expected. But we also know the effect of a million little stressors all ganging up on us and turning an average workday into an epic struggle through a swamp of anxieties. So in the spirit of lessening stress, here are ten things you can do every day to combat that feeling when it all becomes too much.<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0Wake up on the right side of the bed<\/strong>\u2013 Your sleep is a fragile balance, and it\u2019s easy to adopt bad habits and keep them. But sleep is an irreplaceable<\/a> recharge for your mind and your body, so it\u2019s a non-negotiable contract you have to make with yourself. Adjust light levels in your room, don\u2019t watch TV or stare at your computer screen too late, get a noise-cancelling machine \u2013 whatever you need to turn your bedroom into a sacred space of nightly renewal. Going to work refreshed and recharged is more than half the battle.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0Leave for work earlier in the morning<\/strong>\u2013 Don\u2019t start your workday on the wrong foot by racing in to arrive two minutes before your scheduled start-time. Life is busy and a close call is sometimes unavoidable, but facing a stressed and impacted commute is an easy way to plant that wrong foot right into a pothole. You need to start each day in synchronicity with the world, not at war with it.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0Rock out in your car on the way to and from work<\/strong>\u2013 Okay, it doesn\u2019t have to be rock, but you know what we mean: music has ever-mysterious powers over mankind, and it\u2019s always amazing how the right tune can ratchet up your mood and make the whole world feel like its dancing in time around your car as you drive your commute. It\u2019s a great way to right yourself if you feel a bad attitude sneaking up.<\/p>\n

Study: Stress in the Workplace<\/a><\/p>\n

4.\u00a0Make a daily \u201cto do\u201d list<\/strong>\u2013 Even if its an intimidatingly long list, checking tasks off one by one is a works-every-time way to keep anxiety at bay. When you leave the tasks at hand idling in your mind as an amorphous blob, that adds an extra level to the stress you already face from a potentially packed work day. And just feel that satisfaction when you cross a penciled-in item off with a nice black marker!<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0Be comfortable with saying \u201cno\u201d<\/strong>\u2013 There\u2019s only so much you can do in a day. You may want to come off as a workplace superhero by accepting every request of your time with a casual nod, but everyone knows your plate is only so big, and too many extra tasks will cause all your work to suffer incrementally. Your co-workers will appreciate good work more than they will you paying lip service to a project you don\u2019t have time for.<\/p>\n

6.\u00a0Make your work space comfortable<\/strong>\u2013 Not everyone has an office, but to the degree you\u2019re allowed make your work space a place you like to be, like your home away from home. That doesn\u2019t just mean the right framed photos and action figures, but also a chair that make a long sit easy.<\/p>\n

7.\u00a0Go for a walk<\/strong>\u2013 A quick walk around the block is a guaranteed quick-fix stress beater and a hard reset for your POV. Sneak it into your lunch break if you can. And while you\u2019re at it\u2026<\/p>\n

8.\u00a0Breathe<\/strong>\u2013 Sometimes we forget how good it feels to just take a few deep breaths. Seems like it shouldn\u2019t be that easy to cure work stress, but sometimes that\u2019s all it takes.<\/p>\n

9.\u00a0Talk to a co-worker<\/strong>\u2013 And when all else fails, take some time to talk a co-worker about whatever is stressing you out at work. They\u2019re human, too, and there\u2019s a good chance they wouldn\u2019t mind unloading a few stressors of their own. Amazing how good it can feel to just hear how someone else is struggling but surviving… just like you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We all know work-related stress is a near constant in modern life. Success at work drives our lives and shapes our fate, so a certain amount of white-knuckling is to be expected. But we also know the effect of a million little stressors all ganging up on us and turning an average workday into an … Read full-story <\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,8,6],"tags":[315,11,101],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6312"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6312"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6317,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6312\/revisions\/6317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}