Leadership Skills

Stress in Your Life

It is extremely important that you are able to recognize the stressors in your life. Some people persist at a chaotic rate without realizing how stressed they are until it is too late. The first step to reducing your stress is for you to identify it.

Review the questions below, and answer them honestly.

• Do small problems or frustrations upset you terribly?
• Do the little things in life no longer satisfy you?
• Are you no longer able to stop thinking about your worries?
• Are you always exhausted?
• Do you suffer from self-doubt or feel inadequate most of the time?
• Do you have bursts of anger at trivial problems?
• Have you experienced a change of eating or sleeping habits?
• Are you experiencing headaches, back aches, or chronic pain?

If you answered yes to most of the questions, you have a high level of stress. Take the assessment from WebMD, and you may want to save the results for future use. The next thing for you to do is to figure out what you can change.