The best way to handle stress- Plan Your Day, don’t let stuff 'just happen'. A recent survey by psychologist and self-help author Robert Epstein (reported in Time) found that 25% of our happiness hinges on how well we’re able to manage stress.
Epstein found that planning was one of the most effective stress management techniques. As he put it, “fighting stress before it even starts, planning things rather than letting them happen”. And it’s not just short term planning, he goes on to explain “That means planning your day, your year and your life so that stress is minimized.”
So the moral of the story is don't be a victim of circumstance and let stuff just happen to you., If it does you will end up with a few conflicting tasks, have to make reactionary choices, get stressed and make mistakes, get even more stressed and before you know it its stress everywhere you look.
Epstein points to his former professor, the late Harvard behaviorist B.F. Skinner (famous for the effects of reinforcement on behavior.), as a master organizer “Skinner was amazing at managing stress” Epstein recalls, “He was quite a planner. Not only did he plan his day every day, but he had a 10-year planner”.
So reflect on time when you were stressed, how much forward planning had you done beforehand? Perhaps if you make out a plan for the coming week, you will hopefully have fewer unknown events impacting on your day and life may run a little more smoothly. Stress will be down and all going well, happiness will be up. That is plan anyway.
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