1. Managing Stress For Life
Lesson 7
November 12th, 2010

2. Mental Health Test on Tuesday

3. Managing Stress For Life
We have already looked at how to deal with stress in day to day situations. Today we are going to look at stress-management techniques that you can use throughout a lifetime.

4. Physical Health Engage regularly in physical activity
Many negative consequences of stress can be prevented by taking the following steps to keep yourself physically well:
Engage regularly in physical activity
Eat a balanced diet

5. Physical Health Get enough rest and sleep
Use the relaxation techniques that you learned last class
Do not use tobacco, alcohol, or other drugs

6. A Support Group
Effective stress management involves talking to other people about things that bother you
Friends, family, guidance counsellors, teachers
These people can be referred to as your support group

7. A Support Group
In some occasions, just talking about a stressor with a member from your support group can reduce the stress you are under.
How?

8. A Spiritual Life
Many people find that having a spiritual life, a sense of a connection with something greater than oneself, helps them get through great times of stress.
This can be a connection to:
A supreme being
Nature

9. A Spiritual Life
These connections can help to provide comfort, guidance, peace and a sense of being.
Ways that organized religions can help:
Guidance
Sense of belonging to part of a community
The act of helping others
Life has meaning

10. Getting Professional Help
At times a person can feel overwhelmed by stress. If it reaches a point where you feel unable to cope with the stress in your life, you should get help from a professional
This does not always have to be a psychologist; it could be a school counsellor or religious leader, etc.

11. Many stressors cannot be handled alone
Physical, emotional or sexual abuse
It is important to remember that there are always things that can be done to improve the situation no matter how bad it may appear.

12. Managing your time by setting goals and prioritizing
A common stressor that almost everyone faces is the feeling that you do not have enough time to do everything you need and want to do,
The key to using time wisely is to set goals and prioritize them.

13. Managing your time by setting goals and prioritizing
The following steps will help to reduce the stress of “not having enough time.”
List your goals for today
Prioritise you goals
Beside each write either a “A”, a “B” or a “C”.
The goals you label “A” are ones that must get done that day.
The ones labelled “B” are those you would like to get done.
The goals labelled “C” are not as important and may have to wait until later.

14. Managing your time by setting goals and prioritizing
3. During the day, do what is necessary to reach your “A” goals first, then your “B” goals. If you have some time left, you can attend to your “C” goals.
This method can be used for goals to complete in just a few hours, weeks, months, or even a year.

15. The following also help with managing time
Learn how to say NO. Do not take on task that you may have no time to complete
Work on one task at a time. Do not go back and forth between tasks. Time is wasted reorienting yourself.
Ask for help from others when you are pressured for time.

16. Review of SMART goals

17. Review of SMART Goals Specific Straightforward, clear and to the point
How you are going to accomplish it

18. Review of SMART Goals Measurable
The goal should be measurable with some form of measurement

19. Review of SMART Goals Attainable
Set goals that are reachable but not too easy
Set goals that are important to you

20. Review of SMART Goals Realistic
Set short term goals that will help you attain long term goals

21. Review of SMART Goals Time Set a timeframe
The goal must have a end date
Time must be measurable, attainable and realistic

22. Assignment 1. A) Set three SMART Goals for today
B) Place a ranking of A, B, or C beside each goal
2. A) Set three SMART Goals for this upcoming week

23. Assignment
3. A) Set three SMART Goals for this semester. (7 weeks left)
B) Place a ranking of A, B, or C beside each goal
4. Set one SMART Goal that you would like to complete in the next year.