Welcome to another episode of "Billable-Hour Burnout", your go-to resource for managing stress and achieving a balanced, fulfilling career. If you need practical advice on how to live a stress-free life and succeed without stress and overwhelm, you're in the right place.
Let's dive into today's topic: Stress.
Understanding Stress to Live a Stress-Free Life
Stress is a common issue, affecting your ability to enjoy life and perform at your best. Today, we will cover a five-step process on how to live a stress-free life and achieve stress-free success. These steps will help you break the cycle of stress and reclaim your balance and well-being. For more on understanding the effects of stress, you can read this detailed article.
Step 1: Notice
Awareness - The first step in managing stress and learning how to live a stress-free life is to become aware of your current stress levels. You need to pause and take stock of your current stress levels. This involves identifying any physical symptoms or changes in behavior that indicate stress is affecting you.
Pause and take stock of your current stress levels.
Identify any physical symptoms or changes in behavior, such as twitching eyes, irregular sleep patterns, or increased anxiety.
Step 2: Evaluate
Reflection - Once you are aware of your stress, the next step is to evaluate your situation. Reflect on your experiences by asking yourself three key questions. This helps you understand your stress triggers and responses better. For a deeper dive into the stages of burnout, check out this article.
Ask yourself three key questions:
What went well?
What didn’t go well?
What would you do differently?
Use these questions to understand your stress triggers and responses.
Step 3: Tweak
Small adjustments - After evaluating your situation, it's time to make small adjustments. These tweaks are manageable changes to your routine that can significantly impact your stress levels over time. Start with minor adjustments and build on them gradually. This is a crucial step in learning how to live a stress-free life.
Make small, manageable changes to your routine. Examples:
Start by drinking more water.
Set a consistent bedtime.
Avoid hitting the snooze button.
Step 4: Implement
Action - Putting your planned tweaks into practice is crucial. This step involves action and consistency. Use tools like alarms or reminders to help you stick to your new habits and be patient as you adjust to these changes.
Put your planned tweaks into practice.
Use tools like alarms or reminders to help stick to your new habits.
Be consistent and patient as you adjust to these changes.
Step 5: Repeat
Continuous Improvement - The final step is continuous improvement. Regularly revisit and refine your process. By noticing, evaluating, tweaking, implementing, and repeating, you can continuously improve your stress management strategies and achieve long-term success. Repeating this process helps in maintaining how to live a stress-free life.
Regularly revisit and refine your process.
Notice, evaluate, tweak, implement, and repeat to continuously improve your stress management strategies.
Moving Forward with a Stress-Free Life
Achieving a stress-free life is within reach. By following these steps on how to live a stress-free life, you can make significant progress toward a more balanced and fulfilling career. If you need additional support, don’t hesitate to reach out. Join our virtual networking events, follow me on social media, and explore my coaching programs for more personalized guidance. For other ways to manage stress, you can also explore these strategies from Concordia University.
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What You'll Learn from this Episode:
The Importance of Awareness in Managing Stress
How to Evaluate Your Stress Triggers and Responses
Making Small, Manageable Adjustments to Reduce Stress
Implementing New Habits and Being Consistent
Continuously Improving Your Stress Management Strategies
Full Episode Transcript:
Hello, everyone. Happy Thursday. I'm ready to get right into it. Today, we are talking about stress and the five steps to stress-free success. Many of you are feeling overwhelmed and unable to enjoy yourself fully. I'm here to help you achieve success without the stress.
Welcome to Billable-Hour Burnout. If you need practical advice to build your dream career without stress or overwhelm, you’re in the right place. If you're looking for more balance, ease, and confidence, this is for you. I'm Lauren Baptiste, a former Big Four auditor turned life coach. On this show, I share advice and strategies for accountants, consultants, and attorneys.
We're still in National Stress Awareness Month. Have you been taking stock of your stress? This has been a strange month with random illnesses and other challenges. Awareness is the first step to stress success, which we talked about last week. We discussed the five pillars of burnout and added symptoms specific to accounting and law. Check out last week's episode if you haven't already.
I want to share a client success story. My client Lamont, an attorney, said coaching helped her accept herself and show up authentically in her life and career. Coaching with Lauren works, so just do it. I'm also conducting a data study with my clients, measuring their stress, time management, confidence, and work-life balance over time.
Today, I'll take you through a five-step process to break the pattern of stress:
Notice: Become aware of your stress. Take a moment to pause and figure out what's going on.
Evaluate: Ask yourself what went well, what didn't go well, and what you would do differently. This step helps you understand your situation better.
Tweak: Make small adjustments. Start with something manageable, like drinking more water or setting a bedtime.
Implement: Put your plan into action. If it doesn't work the first time, try again and adjust as needed.
Repeat: Continue the process. Notice, evaluate, tweak, implement, and repeat.
Stress-free life doesn't have to be hard. Sometimes all it takes is accountability. If you can't hold yourself to it, ask for help. I specialize in helping hardworking women overcome small obstacles to achieve happiness and productivity.
Thank you for listening to today's episode of Billable Hour Burnout. Drop a comment, hashtag replay, and let me know you watched. Follow me on Instagram @thelaurenbaptiste and on LinkedIn.
As we end Stress Awareness Month, remember that burnout is overcomable. If you're ready for something better, reach out to me. Book a consultation at acheloawellness.com
Have a great rest of your Thursday. Thanks for joining.