Stress

 For this weeks TECH assignment I chose to do the strategy “A Day at  a Time”. This strategy involves you being very organized and in control of your stressful situations. To complete this strategy you need to every night before you go to bed write a list of no more than five items that are causing you stress. Write a list of them and post them on your planner and then the next day attempt to address all of those items on the posits. For a sense of accomplishment once you have completed a task put a line through it and then move onto the next stressful item. Then repeat this for the whole week and see how your stress levels are.

            This method I believe was very helpful in managing my stress. The first aspect that I found helpful was the fact that it was only five items. Even though, I have many things that are stressing me out, definitely more than five things breaking it down to the most essential and the most necessary help me prioritize my stress because, sometimes it can be overwhelming.

            The next aspect I thought was very good about this technique was the writing and crossing out of the tasks. As a visual and kinesthetic learner it is very beneficial for me to write things down and to also visually see them. As I do not have a paper form of a planner I prefer to use tools such as iCal, I also decided to use the electronic Stickies provided to me on my Mac. This was very helpful to me visually as I am always on my computer so I was constantly reminded of what I had to do as it was my background on my computer.