You CAN feel peaceful even when you have a LOT to do. Here is how to get there:
Step One to Peace: You don’t have to do everything!
One of the secrets to peaceful productivity is not to try and accomplish everything. This doesn’t mean just relaxing a. It means focusing on the highest priority items on your list and not feeling stressed to get everything else done.
Step Two to Peace: Strategic elimination
Eliminate all the non-essential items that are building up in your life.
Step Three to Peace: Making sure your to-do list is complete
Instead of storing this information about what you need to do in your head, put it down on paper. You will feel less stress as you start to rely on your to-do lists . The reason for the decreased stress is that now you don’t have to think about these things. And you know that you are not missing anything.
Step Four to Peace: Recovery cycles
Take adequate breaks. Do some exercise, get a light snack, go for a walk, have a conversation with a friend, or do something else that relaxes you and is truly downtime.Get regular exercise and enjoy a good diet.
Step Five to Peace: Stress often comes from things that you are not doing anything about!
Take action steps and review these actions regularly.
Step Six to Peace: Watch your stressful language
You can learn how to relax and be at peace in situations that previously were stressful to you. Say to yourself “I’m a little stressed, but I’m learning how to relax more and more about it.” The way you talk to yourself about the situation has a powerful impact on the way that you feel.
Step Seven to Peace: What are the true consequences?
You might be stressed because you have an imaginary fear that you might lose your job if you don’t do all this work. Does it really matter that much if you do this stuff or not? Probably it’s not anywhere near as big of a deal as you make it out to be in your mind.
The Final Step to Peace: What is positive about this stressful situation?
When you have stress in your life it’s usually because you are fighting with the reality of a situation in your head. Somehow you think that it should not be the way that it is.
When you fight with reality you lose.
As we become stressed our brain shuts down and is not able to think as clearly, and so we are usually less productive when stressed. Working peacefully truly is the most productive way to work
