Reducing Stress With A Busy Schedule
It’s good to be busy. Busy means your life is full, you’re making money, and you have a full life of engagements.
But is it really good to be so busy?
Sometimes, we’re busy because we want to fill our time, and that can cause stress. That stress can be managed if you look at your life and determine what’s important and what is not.
Reducing stress with a busy schedule is possible but it will take some work.
Set Up a Routine
Spontaneity is required if you want to lead a fun life. Your day cannot be planned down to the very second. That creates high expectations, if something out of the ordinary happens. Consequently, you will be thrown off and you may get angry. A routine helps you eliminate some of that stress.
A routine puts you in the places you need to be in order to have the most success in your day. However, what happens when you are in those places is free to occur. Knowing where you have to be and being there is a comfort, but while you are at the gym, at the office, or at your favorite spot, enjoy where you are.
Control Your Diet
Our diets are directly connected to our moods and our basic functions. When our nutrition is thrown off, it can throw us off. Find easy recipes to cook so that you can eat well and it won’t stress you out. A Tuscan chicken (see the recipe here) meal is a quick and easy meal to prepare that is full of flavor, healthy, and will taste so good after a long day. Meals like this will keep your nutrition up while you are taking care of yourself.
Exercise
Make time in your routine for exercise. Doctors will say that a simple thirty-minute exercise is all you need in a day. You can burn hundreds of active calories, and you will be doing something great for your health. The best part of exercise is that it releases endorphins that make you happy and exercise reduces your stress levels.
Manage Your Time Wisely
In case you need to hear this: It’s okay to say “no” to people. If someone gets offended at your answer, that is indicative that maybe you need to rethink that relationship. For the most part, people will respect your rejection because most people know that sometimes you just have to worry about yourself and your needs.
Prioritize your time so that you can take care of what you need to get done for yourself. When you are done with your daily list, you will feel more available to help others, but if others need you while you are in the middle of your self-care, it is okay to decline and get back to yourself.
Stay Organized
The minute you lose track of yourself is the minute everything comes undone. Get a day planner, make lists, and know where you have to be in order to stay on top of your day.
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16 thoughts on “Reducing Stress With A Busy Schedule”
I feel difficult to make a time for exercise. I know it needs to reset my routine. Thank you so much for sharing some great tips and will keep these in mind.
Sometimes it is hard to find time in our busy lives. However, when we look honestly at our schedule we may be able to find even a few extra minutes.
Managing my time is definitely something that I often break since a lot of things happen and I’m often distracted by them. Those are some great tips and will keep them in mind.
Angela, there are many responsibilities that come along in the course of a day, a week or a month. It is easy to get caught up in it but so important to remember that we also deserve the care and attention.
I totally can relate! And yes exercise really helps me release the stress for my busy schedule. Thank you for this!
Thank you for sharing how exercise works for you.
I feel like being busy does help a lot. Stress doesn’t have to be working. We can be busy and don’t stress. Great tips!
Being busy can help with distraction but we also want to be careful to not be so busy that we never deal with the cause of the stress.
These are all really great tips! This will surely help me a lot thank you so much for sharing this with us!
You are very welcome. Good luck with your endeavors.
As a busy parent, I can very much relate to this. I will have to try some of your tips.
I look forward to hearing feedback in regards to how things went for you.
Thank you for these reminders. I really need to work on managing my time wisely. Will start making my daily list again.
You are very welcome. A daily list can go a long way towards feeling, and becoming, more organized.
I notice that I exercise more when I am stressed. It’s a great way to reduce stress from work.
Beth, you are in a good place in which you automatically turn to exercise as your main stress management tool.