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The National Sleep Council
report showed 36 Million Americans report sleep problems.� This is
often due to job stress, increased workload, and competition.��
These rest-related problems cost American business $18 billion annually due
to lack of productivity.
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Rather than give
a single tip on stress reduction, below are some "how to" article links to
help with particular stress areas at work:
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If stress at work
seems to be the problem, check out the
blog posts on
stress by Elaine Siciliano Morris.� Or� to review a single
post with activities to promote stress management, go to the post titled
Moving stress and frustrations into a positive attitude to figure out
what the work-related stressors might be.
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Often a work or
project team can be feeling stress too.� This may be reflected in short
tempers and open conflict at team meetings.� When this happens, it may
be important to take a little time-out from the work meeting to do team
stress reduction or just insert some humor into the seriousness of the
situation.�
8-10 minute ideas
for humor or fun include having each team member quickly:
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Tell their favorite "clean" joke
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Share something funny or strange that happened
to them over the past week (or month)
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State something positive that happened to them
in the last 3 days
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Or instead of
doing the individual items,� focus on doing a relaxation technique as a
group:�
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Take 3 deep breaths, count to 10 then continue
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Get up and move around the room
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Do a simple 2 minute physical exercise - either
standing or sitting
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Leave the meeting room and walk for 5 minutes
away and then walk back for 5 minutes
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Lack of time to get
everything done is often a stressor, so consider ideas in
How to Use Your Computer to Save Time article.� If spending a lot
of time on the world wide web, also take a look at
How to Better Manage the Time You Spend on the Web.�
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If getting stressed out
over how to do something new on the computer, check out the Microsoft Office
"how to" articles at
http://www.shirleyfinelee/Articles_EhowOffice.htm.� Even if the
articles are on a different version of the software than what the
organization has, they will provide an idea of a potential search term to
use in order to find out how to search for that function in the
application's help documentation.�
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"Stress is the trash of modern life - we all generate it but
if you don't dispose of it properly, it will pile up and overtake your
life."� - Danzae Pace
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