Priorities self-care morning routine 2) Place relationship above career, 3) focus on family goals,4) Generate other source of income,5) learn your task properly to less depend on collogues or manager.6) Surround yourself with genuine friends outside of office,7) Give way to ladder climbers,8) Never celebrate promotion in slavery,9) Learn to celebrate life over career,10) Act seriousness at workplace to escape gossips 11) Never accept additional task with happy face ,12) Reach office on time & leave on time ,13) Utilize break times for your personal work , 14) Never add colleagues in your social media account, 15) Never disclose anything personal at workplace ,16) Work as per your pay, 17) Change the organization if it costs your emotional health, 17) Career is not everything ,18) Live a good moral ethical life ,have faith in God.
- Priorities self-care morning routine:
If you do take out 30 minutes of morning time for yourself, you will feel charged up for the rest of the day & slowly you will start loving yourself without leaving room for emptiness or any anxious feelings. Morning routine can be organizing your room, combing hair, cleaning face, either walking or doing yoga, listening songs, eating healthy breakfast & deciding to be mindful on hydrating yourself throughout the day.
- Place relationship above career:
Relationship decides the quality of life. As we grow priorities shifts & nothing is precious than family, so looking at career by associating yourself with any fame or position is stupidity as it is limited to workplace & comes on huge sacrifices specially if you are in corporate. Earning good enough can be achieved by being average or by switching the organization but never get inspired with rat racer pulling each other down to sit on top of pyramid, it can be anxious.
- Focus on family goals:
Your family is a beautiful world. Investing time, cooperating each other & creating values will do wonders in life. “Limiting the social media, participating in each other’s interest will keep you engaged enough to stay away from any negative emotions”.
- Generate other source of income:
In contemporary world, establishing business or generating side income has become easier than previous. Either by learning new skills or by investing money but relying on job alone is neither safe nor good for a balanced life. You must consider finding & researching multiple ways to push the income. It’s okay to fail, learn & improve than not trying.
- learn your task properly to less depend on collogues or manager:
Make your mind to struggle for initial 6 months & try best of your potential, resources to gain the knowledge & skills needed to perform your task so that you don’t depend on anyone much to complete your work. This strategy helps you to control more than 50% of your stress. Make sure to get access & eligibility for bringing down the dependency so that you do your job on your own terms.
- Surround yourself with genuine friends outside of office:
Maintaining friendship with childhood friends or someone who you were able to relate from your circle should be kept in touch. Talking to them & meeting them even once in a while gives meaning to life. Genuine people always radiate positivity & we get to learn something every time we meet them. “Also, we are an average of people we associate, so surrounding with people with high values will keep you away from anxiety”.
- Give way to ladder climbers:
If your workplace has pyramid structure & teamwork is more about a rat race over cooperation & coordination, you can silently give them the way to climb & sit on top of pyramid. Let them look down & see the kingdom you have built using the same time & energy in different ways. Loosing mind & getting anxious takes you nowhere but learning the system & getting out of it takes you to everywhere you wanted to go in life. The system in which you work will constantly try to limit your brain, but never get trapped. If it’s hampering your peace, this is not the right place for you. You should explore simultaneously & be prepared for the opportunity.
- Never celebrate promotion in slavery:
If you are in job which means you are selling your time & comfort, so is it worth to celebrate when you are asked to commit even more of your time, more responsibility, more sacrifices with little better way? However, the pay can be increased with “n” number of times more than promoted pay if we focus on learning new skills & look for opportunities every 2 to 3 years once where we fit in better. So being in same organization for long & fighting for promotions makes you lose life in disguise.
- Learn to celebrate life over career:
Career should be priority but it’s not above yourself & family in priority list. Never give more time than the one you signed in offer letter. No one at corporate actually cares except what can they extract out of you, so never hurt your closest one for the career reasons. It’s not worth the care they give. Keep your off-office hours & weekends only for your family & celebrate their presence & their role in your life.
- Act seriousness at workplace to escape gossips:
Though you should not be a serious person inside but the aura & impression you create should be less approachable so that you can skip gossip & additional tasks. How we look to yourself, the next person looks to you in the same way, so do your work, avoid gossips & always remain prepared to meet opportunity outside of the small circle for the big success.
- Never accept additional task with happy face:
No matter how transparent the system is, their first goal is to make best use of you to fulfill their goals & dreams. Use your potential as per your pay & for any additional task coming as an option just because you have expertise or you are sincere doesn’t mean you should compromise your personal time. When your senior or manager offers you new task for support when you are done with your own, never say yes easily that you can do, rather say you are willing to but you had some urgent work to leave ASAP, or make your expression bad enough that they never feel to ask you again.
- Reach office on time & leave on time:
If you reach office on time, you have plenty of time to think & organize your day. Also, you are gaining visibility that you are responsible & eligible to leave early. It creates an impression in front of management & they will also think twice before asking to stay back. Apparently, it saves you from rushing to last moment anxiety.
- Utilize break times for your personal work:
You can plan your personal thing during break time or the free time before meetings. You can talk or chat to your favorite person or engage yourself in completing your online personal pending things like may be paying some bills. You can gain knowledge about the next move you have in your mind. It potentially helps you to manage your stress level. Think & focus about your job only in your working hours.
- Never add colleagues in your social media account:
We are often advised to not say our personal thing to colleagues, but it doesn’t make sense if we update our lifestyle to them. We can not know & predict what thoughts your social media page can create in mind of people you work with or depend on, so maintaining privacy can keep you peaceful.
- Never disclose anything personal at workplace:
Your colleague should know nothing about your family background, your financial status, your responsibility, whether it be good or bad, but sharing this to anyone at work place has certainly the bad outcomes. People may misuse you or ill treat you in both the cases. Consider it as a place to show skills & ability but nothing beyond.
- Work as per your pay:
Observe your performance & pay for at least 2 cycles & compare with inflation, accordingly you decide where to invest your time & energy. Never forget, we are in attention economy so if something is not working out, try different path, be opened for other opportunities but never drain yourself for something which is not worth.
- Change the organization if it costs your emotional health:
Well, this can be difficult one but not difficult than suffering day & night at particular place just in name of security & comfort zone. If something is troubling you should not be made comfort zone, walking out keeps you energetic & fresh enough to go long in the journey.
- Career is not everything:
The first step to accept this phrase is keeping yourself away from the desire which you could not fulfil at that particular time & situation. Never trap yourself with materialistic things or loans on head which may push you to suffer in career. Cut down the materials which is beyond affordability & it brings you true luxury. When you are away from fake things, you self-realize, life is not just meant for 9 to 5.
- Live a good moral ethical life, have faith in God.
No matter what life throws on you, but do the things which you feel is right. Be kind to yourself & the people around when no one is watching you. Keep humanity at first place, be humble & grateful, no matter what toxic situation & emotional trauma you may have gone through because of not being alert or unknown reasons, but if you do the things in name of God, you will always be rewarded in life. “Your life is precious, much more than career”.
- Meet Counsellor for the Support:
If the above mentioned nineteen strategies still doesn’t bring stability in your emotions which means it’s the right time to seek support. Since they are non-judgmental listeners & they conduct some exercises & modules to measure the responsiveness towards certain situations hence never be hesitant to contact them.
People also ask! FAQs
- How can you prevent anxiety while working?
Break the obstacles coming on the way to your work, identify the area where you are depending & failing to take your decisions, knowing your work perfectly prevents you from getting anxious & secondly, trust your instinct & experiences to sort out which task is really urgent & important to be prioritized otherwise the word urgent tagged in each of your task can create certain level of stress. Use the traveling time to listen music & feel the life by putting off the email notification & teams’ messages. Love yourself enough to not get hurt by surroundings & remain unaffected with errors/mistakes and comparison. Ignore them & focus on quality at whatever you do, it potentially brings down your stress & anxiety.