Stress Management

Stress is something that I have always encountered. However, with the stress management strategies I learned how to somewhat cope with my stress. I decided to use the stress diagram and a day at a time strategies. I chose a day at a time and the stress diagram because I am a visual learner and I can actually see and learn about the different things that are stressing me out in my life and work on how to reduce that stress. The class I used these strategies on was Religion 101 because this class is ridiculously stressful for me.

The first strategy I used was a day at a time. I found this strategy somewhat helpful because I wound up listing the sources of my stress in my religion class. The helpful part of this strategy was the fact that I can assess what is really stressful about this class. For example, one source of my stress was my religion essay number 3, but I crossed it out because I managed to complete the assignment and that relieved the stress. I have gone up until now with the same list and haven't crossed anything off because I am still stressed by those other things. I realized the easiest way to get rid of this stress is to do whatever assignments I have to do or put myself in the best position I can to understand the materials.

After I made that list for the day at a time strategie I decided to make a Stress diagram of it to see which of these things are the most stressful to me. By using this chart I was able to see the different stressful elements of my religion class. The most stressful thing about religion 101 is the fact that I am trying to get above a C+ in the class because I am trying to get a 3.3 GPA. After using this chart I found it useful for sorting out how I can evaluate and  take care of the most stressful things in my life.