3 Ways to Relieve Stress

 

 

 

Recently, I started a new job so I felt so stressed every day. The first month of the new job was tough. There were many new tasks to learn. Also, adjusting to a new work environment, boss and co-workers made me feel so overwhelmed. I came home many days completely drained and stressed. I got incredibly anxious, losing my composure. I often thought, what if things would never get better? what if I would never be happy? And the panic continued. Then, I realized if I didn't get rid of negative thoughts, they might cause me to sink into depression. So I decided to make a list of ways to relieve the stress and practice to create a habit of taking action of it.

 

Here are the 3 ways that helped me to handle stress during my dark times.

 

1. Don't Try Too Hard

 

Don't try hard to make people like you. No effort, no expectation, no disappointment. Simply think that the workplace is a place to make money, not to have fun or make a relationship. 

 

Don't try hard to perform perfectly. The more you perform well, the more works you will get. It will eventually ruin your work-and-life-balanced life. So there is no reason for you to make the best practice in the company unless you want a fast track for a promotion.

 

If you don't try too hard, it will be easier to ditch expectations at work and it will lead you to live your own best life.

 

2. Create Deadline

 

Everything has an end. So if you realize that the work experience that you are having right now will be end soon, ironically you will miss those times. So, do not think that you are hired in this company forever, but you actively create the deadline for quitting the company. Then you will feel the time flies at work. Also, you won't feel so pressured at work because you know that you will leave the place someday.

 

3. Go crazy with your hobby

 

While you are indulged in something, you can forget an unavoidable reality of life, the stress. For me, these are 3 hobbies that help me to escape from reality. 

 

a) Watching Netflix(Stranger Things, Bigbang Theory, Modern Family)

b) Drawing illustrations

c) Make My Own App