Create a stress diary

It's strange how the things my clients are dealing with sometimes seem to come in waves. Right now the thing that keeps popping up with numerous clients is stress.

Here's an interesting approach to getting a handle on stress - the Stress Diary. As the article puts it:

Before you can deal effectively with the stress in your life, you need to identify the key sources of stress in it. This helps you to deal with the most important sources of stress first and separate these from the things that are, in reality, minor irritants. Stress Diaries are useful tools for doing this.

What good does a Stress Diary do?

The idea behind Stress Diaries is that, on a regular basis, you record information about the stresses you are experiencing, so that you can analyse these stresses and then manage them. This is important because often these stresses flit in and out of our minds without getting the attention and focus that they deserve.

As well as helping you capture and analyse the most common sources of stress in your life, Stress Diaries help you to understand:

- The causes of stress in more detail;
- The levels of stress at which you operate most efficiently; and
- How you react to stress, and whether your reactions are appropriate and useful.

Any time one of my clients identifies something they want to work on changing, the first thing I have them do is just spend a week noticing it. They don't have to do anything about it, or change anything. Just notice. Awareness is the first step to being able to make a change.

Seems like a Stress Diary would be a great tool for that.

Curt Rosengren
Passion Catalyst ^SM

Comments

[Cheree]

My name is Cheree Sommers. I am 31 years old. I have been under alot of Stress lately. Can you please help me? Can you please help me make a Stress Management Calander, and a Stress Management Diary?

Thanks,

Cheree Sommers