Stress Relief 101

Do you have a difficult choice to make or an uncomfortable situation to resolve?  Some are more difficult than others, but many of us would answer "yes" to that question.

What's your method for handling these difficulties?

Here is what mine used to be:

1. Ignore the situation for as long as possible until I could no longer stand the consequences of not making a choice
2. Try to resolve an extremely difficult situation in very little time due to procrastination.

Don't use that method.  Stress is killing us and using that method leads to days or even weeks of stress.  Try this one:

1. Write down the one task that you don't want to do today (it is typically the most stressful)
2. Under that, write down the very first action that you need to take to complete that task
3. Complete that action as soon as possible (literally, as soon as you can complete that action, do it)
4. Write down the very next action that you need to take.
5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 until the task is complete

This method is a huge stress relief because you're focusing on completing the most stressful tasks first.  Get them out of the way quickly and get back to life.