7 WAYS EDUCATORS CAN COMBAT WORK STRESS
As educational leaders, you experience stress under normal circumstances because the job itself keeps you from being immune from work stress. This short article offers effective techniques you can use to relieve and reduce your stress. Learning healthy ways to release your stress and even how to prevent a stressful reaction in the first place is critical to not only meeting your goals and achieving success but more importantly, to your maintaining good health and peace of mind.
MINDFUL LEADERSHIP
Great leaders come in many different varieties, but mindfulness is one quality they have in common. Contemplation and compassion can make you and your team happier and more successful.
MINDFUL MEDITATION
The pressures of our daily lives and our work can bring about waves of emotion that can have negative consequences: sadness, depression, grief, anger, confusion, anxiety, and stress. So, by the end of the day, we have little energy on reserve to take care of ourselves. This will affect our sleep, our diet, our physical fitness, and our mindset. Through mindfulness meditation, we can begin to breathe life back into our being.
LEADERSHIP AND SELF MASTERY
What is standing in the way of you reaching the level of success you desire, or the level of mastery you aspire to achieve? Is the problem that you don’t know enough? No. Is there too much competition? Not even close. The only obstacle is a lack of mastery over yourself. Mastering yourself is the only goal you need to achieve. From that, you can achieve all your other goals!
LEADING THROUGH COMPLEXITIES AND FINDING CALM
You are leading in a complex world. Now, more than ever, you are expected to be more creative, more resilient, and more hardworking. Yet, at the end of each workday, it's not time to relax. You still have to take care of other aspects of your life, including connecting with your loved ones. And once you spend time in this space, you return to your work, late into the night. The stress that accumulates is great, and if not addressed, you may experience greater physical and emotional consequences. Luckily, there are strategies you can use to help you minimize the stress in your life.