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How To Cope With The Stress Of Moving To A New Home

Posted by author on May 14, 2012 5 comments
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How To Cope With The Stress Of

Moving To A New Home


Let’s face it; moving always has been and always will be a rather stress provoking event. Yet, it can also mark the beginning of a new and exciting chapter in your life. Nonetheless, there are many details to look after and tons of organizational matters that need attention so that you can easily cope with the stress of moving to a new home.

There are many ways that you can make moving a much less stressful event. Most experts will agree that planning is essential. Even if you have the most efficient moving company in the world assisting you, the better you plan, the more seamless your change into your new home will be.

Here are some tips I’ve learned along the way:

Reduce Your Mental Stress About Moving

Starting with the right mental attitude is crucial to managing stress around the process of moving into your new home. This is the time to beef up your positive self-talk program with words like “I get so much out of clearing away all unnecessary items because this way, I can move into my new home with the true essentials of what I actually utilize”.

Speaking to your inner self with positive words does enormous good in terms of boosting your vitality, enthusiasm and coping strategies.

Organize Your Moving Strategy


I’m currently in the process of moving into a new home myself, and one thing I find greatly helpful is the old fashioned pen and paper. By writing things out, you get a much more clear idea of what you have and how you want to organize. This is a good time to go through all of your warranties and appliances that you might have had for years.

Be sure to include all of your “to-do” lists so that you have a checklist of everything in that one notebook binder. This is handy and convenient for keeping track of everything that is necessary for your move. Then once you have gone through everything, you can place your final draft of precisely what will and will not go with you, onto your hard drive of your pc or mac.

De Clutter To Reduce Moving Stress

Stress and moving to a new home imageWhile going through all of your warranties and appliances, you might find yourself with versions of products which are a bit outdated. I know I sure did! It’s great when you purchase something that has stood the test of time and even without being under warranty, still works like a charm, but will it work for you in your new home?

When de cluttering, remember that you can also utilize this moment to update whichever new versions are available on the market. By planning your move with ample time, you can shop around to update and renew certain items so that with your fresh start in your new home, you have the most energy efficient items.
I found a lot of helpful information on energy efficient items which weren’t even on the market the last time I moved, when I checked this link: Energy Star Qualified Products.

These are just a few tips that I found helpful for reducing stress concerning moving into a new home. When looking at this big change as an opportunity to clear out the clutter, modernize your appliances and obtain a new and concise inventory of what you essential use, your perspective on your moving process can take on a whole new vision.

I hope you’ve found this helpful and I’m interested to know what difficulties you’ve encountered when moving. Please share your ideas in the comments section, thanks!

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Personal Development Plan: Your Best Season Ever!

Posted by author on May 2, 2012 2 comments
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Making a Personal Development Plan

Personal Development Plan ImageHow does a personal development plan help you with stress management?

A personal development plan is a structured approach so that you can improve yourself. It is a tool to view what you can do to develop any aspect of yourself.

In the case of stress management, an effective personal development plan gives you the potential and the power to manage stress more successfully, which results in a higher quality of life for you.
I was determined to make such personal development plan so that I could learn how to manage my own stress more effectively, as well. I discovered that if you don’t learn how to manage stress successfully, then stress will manage you! I read up on things like How To Understand Stress Symptoms and found that even in my childhood, I had always been dealing with stress….although not always in the most effective manner.


I’ve seen what it’s like when stress from work, family and personal relationships get the best of me, so I knew I had to figure out a concrete way to manage stress before stress defeated me. If you can relate to what I’m talking about, then read on, because there is definitely a better way of life!

Personal Development Plan: The Initial Stages

Before coming up with the actual plan, I had to make up a list of the possible things that stressed me most. You might find this helpful because many times, we don’t tend to give these types of things much thought, given the fact that we consider them stressful. But just remember that putting it on paper gets it out of your system. Any stressful situation you put on paper does not, I repeat, does not have any power to hurt you.

This is actually the beginning of the healing process within your personal development plan.

I began with an incredibly long list, then decided to shorten it so that I could gain more clarity. At the end, I came up with the major categories, like work related stress, health stress, stress due to aging and financial stress. As I began to polish my list, I slowly began to realize that some of the “stressors” were very trivial and that things like lowering my cholesterol or getting along with colleagues, were things I could do a lot to change.

I finished my first list and read over again until everything made sense.
I made a copy of my first list and placed it on my refrigerator door where most of my lists were and another copy, which I saved on my hard drive. I would read it every day and add anything that I might have left out.

Pretty soon my list was complete and it was time to make my final draft.

Personal Development Plan: The Final Stages

When I was convinced that my list was complete, I made a final copy. While I typed away, I made special mention of specific things I could do to reduce stress and not vague things like “exercise” or “healthy diet”. I made sure that I had made it specific, like ride my bike for 2 miles or include 2 fruits and 3 vegetables for lunch or dinner.

It’s important for you to remember to include actionable steps and to quantify your actions.

So, I just kept on coming up with more and more concrete ways to reduce stress in order to counteract the specific stressors I had included in the list. This made my personal development plan for stress management much easier for me to understand and that made it much easier for me to do.

And did I stop at this part? No, I also wrote down many of the possible ways that I could prevent further stress and this made my list even better than it was before! :-)

Now the tough part of every decision making process and every personal development plan is to actually initiate the plan with action (meaning new habits) and to make the plan work. I had to commit 100% to everything that I had written down. This is why it’s so important to remember to make yourself a plan that is simple enough for you to be able to stick with.

Making a personal development plan was a great liberating experience! It gave me new insights on the things I would have never known I could do.

How about you, when is the last time you set out to put the pen to the paper and write out your personal development plan? This summer has the potential to be the best summer of your life, so why not start now with your very own personal development plan?!


Is this the summer you are going to stick to a plan for meditation?
Or how about the summer you plan to not only get closet clutter relief but also stay more organized in general?
Please share your ideas on your plans for personal development and start you commitment in the comments section today, thanks!

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3 Keys You Need To Remember Before Making Decisions

Posted by author on February 29, 2012 32 comments
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3 Keys To Good Decision Making


Why is the decision making process suchHow to manage stress with decisions a chore? Most likely because we tend to think that the decision will irrevocably affect the rest of our lives. Thank goodness that’s not always the case. But nonetheless, you can gain a lot from streamlining your decision making process and that’s fundamental in learning how to manage stress effectively.

Even the slightest decision over what to wear for the day can be stressful, especially if you’re also dealing with closet clutter. So how much more mental energy is required when you have to decide on bigger and more important matters? Try these keys to make that process easier for yourself.

 

Here Are 3 Keys To Remember Before Making Decisions:

1. Apply The Right Framing

Let’s take the analogy of taking a picture. When you look through the lens of the camera, you try to see ifHow to manage stress with decisions the frame is too small or too wide. You check to make sure your focus is where you want it, right?

Now let’s apply that to your decision making process. Do you use a narrow frame when you look at the decision? What do you do to step back in order to see the wider perspective? Sometimes the culprit of the decision making process simply seeing the picture in too narrow or too wide a frame.

With the application of the right framing, you want to take 1 zoom in and 1 zoom out to see the decision more clearly. You want to keep your overall objectives in that picture frame while zooming.

2. Implement Innovative Alternatives

You might have your own preferred idea about the decision to be made, yet keeping an open mind keeps your possibilities for growth open, too.  This decision might be the opportunity for you to think out of the box like a pro so brainstorming ideas with an open mind is an asset. You might forget this in the decision making process because it’s natural to think in your regular patterns of thought.

Try to explore your creative side. Let your preferred decision sit for a minute so that your creative side can bring forth new ideas. This also helps you in practicing how to manage stress with new methods.

For example, let’s take a big decision that you are facing and say you’ve already got your first idea in place. With this principle in mind, you’re going to put that first choice on the burner for a moment, and instead, get your creativity flowing first. A good exercise would be to take the decision and write it out with 4 different ideas. Using a mind map is a really effective tool for this exercise.

 

3. Keep Your Core Values = You Can Be Happy Either Way

Your core values are highest on your list, so no matter which decisions you make, if they are always in harmony with your core values, then you’ll always be able to be happy about them either way.

How to manage stress with decisionsOne thing is for sure, the power to choose is yours. So if your decision is a reflection of your core values, then you’ll always walk away a winner.

Take a moment and reflect on the things that are most important to you. The key to understanding yourself is to know and understand what you want. Your ideas about life tend to change as you go through life, so it’s always a good idea to examine if or how your core values have changed, as well.

The decisions you made even a year ago, were the result of your consciousness at that time, but haven’t you done a lot of different things in the last 365 days? Use the new input to evaluate your growth and step into your new shoes of the decision making process.

 

Streamlining your decision making process gives you the wonderful opportunity to do that.

Try these 3 keys to unlock the door of your new possibilities with your decision making process. Discovering how to manage stress effectively encompasses even the most stressful processes, like decision making. But with the ability to zoom effectively, embrace creativity and your core values as they evolve, you will find it easier to approach the decision making process with more tranquility.

Here’s to your decision making success!

What’s the most difficult aspect of making decisions that you face? Let’s about it and ask any questions you might have in the comments section!

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