Yesterday, over Lunch with few of the friends and colleagues, someone asked me, "How you seems to be Stress Free, even after having hugh official responsibilities". I like to share the reply given, may be its just my philosophy or may be it can help you to grow in Life and still lead a Stress Free Life.
Some of the points given as advice are as follows -
- Start Cooking on some of the days. Sounds absured, but It will help you to move your mind away from the official pending List of Jobs and you will just concenterate on saving your gravy from burning off..
- It will certainly make your spouse Happy, even if the food cooked may not taste good, believe me.., The more Household chores you share with your spouse, the more peaceful Life you can enjoy at Home, as it gives the other partner a feeling of being a partner in real sense, as you show readiness to share every bit of workload..
- Learn to say "NO", if you think the work assigned to you is difficult to achieve in the given circumstances and given timeframe. You should be the one, making your priorities. Be in the driver seat and drive your life in your own terms, accept the challenges and complete the jobs within committed time frames, but do not Over-Commit.., just to get some brownie points from the Boss, speak up about your understanding of the job and take others advice and take the best possible route to finish off the job.
- Making prioirties - seems easy, but you should know the inside out of the job you are expected to perform, then only you get capability of setting the priorities and time frames which are acceptable to others..so Learn, learn n learn...
- Be a Leader, as only Leaders have Followers and followers follow the Teachings of the Leader and not the actual person behind those Teachings. So, to be a Leader, be a Good teacher.. unless you teach your learnings to your desciples, you cannot delegate them your work and unless you do that, you can not move ahead in Life. There are many Engineers, who are great in their work but they remain great engineers only, as they fail to pass on their knowledge. Its simple, life goes on , work needs to be finished, if you don't teach others, you will be the only person doing that job repeatedly whole of your Life without moving ahead to take on the new responsibilities and new challenges. So, Learn..teach..n Learn more with each new Teaching.., thats my motto, make urs also..if it makes sense to u..
- Apart from this, you should know "Money Management" & "Time Management" to remain stress free. Claim all your expenses on time, pay all your bills as soon as you receive the same, make a list of payments to be made each month, like electricity bills , telephone bills, school fees, LIC premiums, credit card bills, etc and pay all of them without waiting for the Due Date. It feels great, when you don't have any pending Dues to be paid to anyone in the world. Stay away from Loans as much as you can. Credit card is for your convenience and not a way to get easy Loan.. regarding time management, just start your day early, rest of things starts falling in place one by one, its easy, no one gets sick if he or she wakes up at 5 in the morning or reach office half an hour earlier than the actual office time, try it..
So, just try some of the things, it may help you and then start teaching the same to others, so that we all can Live Smiling without any stress..
