stress & work life balance
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Stress & Work Life Balance
Manage it before it manages you
BioLakisha Bealer is the founder of Agility
Paralegal Service, LLC. Agility offers paralegal
services to attorneys, CLE courses to attorneys
and paralegals, and a virtual tradeshow for
Legal professionals. Lakisha earned an
Associates, Bachelor’s, an MBA as a single
parent and working full-time.
Overview1) Determining your stress triggers
2) Effective tools and resources for dealing with stress
3) Using technology to reduce stress
4) Creating boundaries between personal and professional relationships
What is stress?Although, this seems to be an elementary
question understanding the true definition of
stress allows for understanding how stress
affects you individually.
According to The Institute of Heartmath
“Stress is the term used to describe the wear
and tear the body experiences in reaction to
everyday tensions and pressures”.
Common Stressors
Juggling work/personal lifeLack of job secu-rityPeople issuesWorkload
What are you’re stress triggers?Stress triggers are those things that cause an
emotional imbalance and are different for
everyone
Stress Triggers
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Picking up on stress cues• As members of teams or partners in
relationships it is important to pick up on others stress cues. This can help to create cooperative working environments and drama free personal and professional relationships.
Picking up on stress cues• Improves relationships with co-workers• Avoids conflicts
The obvious signs• Absenteeism• Frequent tardiness• Emotional outbursts• Poor work performance• Lack of focus• Sleeplessness
The not so obvious signs & Negative Coping Mechanisms
• Procrastination• Social drinking• Recreational drug use
Using technology to reduce stress• emWave2 portable stress reliever
• What it is?• What does it do?
• emWave PC desktop version• What it is?• What does it do?
Creating professional boundaries• Believing that your doing your employer a
favor by not taking a vacation• Taking business calls during time off• Being the office superman or superwoman
Creating personal boundaries• Never taking Me time• Buying in to the Superparent myth• Over scheduling personal events
Resource Links• American Institute of Stress provides
referrals to various organizations
http://www.stress.org/services/• The Institute of Heartmath provides various
resources for stress management and overall well-being
http://www.heartmath.org/free- services/solutions-for-stress/index-of-all-solutions.html
ConclusionOutside of all the tools and resources the best
way to eliminate stress is by understanding
what your stress triggers are and coming up
with your own method to manage it
Questions
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