Friday 26 February 2010

How to Remove the Stress from Tackling Big Projects

Stress and your mind are interconnected in deciding your experiences and feelings in life. Your stress management and stress relief responses are dominated by your own mindset. Your mind is very powerful and will most often determine whether a situation or experience causes you stress, strain, tension and worry. Or whether the same situation will be a positive experience for you.

BURDEN, WORRY, DREAD AND LARGE PROJECTS

The ability of your mind is therefore critical when grappling with a large project or assignment.  For many people, the thought of attempting to complete a big project fills them with dread. They look upon such projects with tremendous fear. Their stress levels climb dramatically and they feel overpowered as the project appears insurmountable. But changing your mindset can be a strong positive drive in helping you deal with any big project.

STRESS MANAGEMENT AND TIME MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES

So how do you apply the power of your mind to remove all that pressure, strain and concern away from starting a big project at work or home?   It's to do with your mindset and beginning with one critical question. This is the most crucial time and stress management question you can ask yourself when commencing any big assignment.

THE ONE QUESTION THAT MUST BE ASKED

Here is your question.  Can I take this project and divide it into smaller more manageable parts? That is it. This is the most powerful question you can ask yourself and others in your team about to tackle a big project. Because the answer to this question is always YES. You can take any project that you about to commence and break it down into more workable steps, pieces or parts. When you stop fretting, agonizing and stressing and break the project down into the steps involved, you can actually see yourself doing these steps.  You are now gaining control over the project, rather than the project controlling you.

ALL BIG PROJECTS START WITH SMALL STEPS

All great achievements and projects begin with little steps. So begin with defining all those steps. The power of your mind will then start to reduce your feelings of tension and distress as you begin to ascertain each step as manageable on its own. Your mentality changes as you're now centered on finishing the initial smaller and more attainable steps. As you finish one workable piece of the project puzzle you are able to then go onto the next. You feel a great deal of less stress as the project no longer appears as overpowering as it did earlier.

ASK THE QUESTION EVERY TIME

So whenever you are faced with what seems like an overwhelmingly large project, start by asking this most important question.  It will lead you to using very effective time and stress management strategies. Can I take this project and divide it into smaller more manageable parts?  It is the answers to this question, that makes a large and almost impossible project become possible.  It dissipates your fear and stress as you begin moving towards completion taking one step at a time.


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