Most of the time I am stressed. Not only with school work, but there are so many other aspects of life that can leave a person stressed. Like today, I woke up and realized I had so many errands to run and things to buy before I go back to school on Tuesday. I have to do my laundry, clean my room, go to CVS, buy more suitcases and ect. the list goes on. I also, have 2D homework, time arts homework, and CLS! Where do I even begin?!
So, I sat down and made a chart, the Stress Diagram, and it showed what my biggest stresses where down to my, not so stressful but still in the back of my head, stresses. Then I put it into a pie chart to express what needed more attention. This worked because I am a visual and kinesthetic learner, so drawing out what stressed me out, really showed me what I needed to work on and in what order.
After doing this, it made me feeling better about organizing what work I should look at first and get accomplished, vs. what work I could leave for a little later. This brought me to make a Stress Reduction Plan because I would reward myself with one of these activities when I finished a task that was very stressful.
I wrote out five things that I could treat myself to when I got to stressed with work. This helped because it gave me first, an incentive to finish some of my work, and then also, in doing this activity, it let me relax a little and not think so much about what I had to do but just have some fun.
I will totally continue to use these helpful charts in the future because they have made me realize that there are ways to de-stress, and that you don't always have to be caught up in the middle of it.
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