Releasing the pressure inside, wisely and periodically, turn down uncontrolled stress !

I was talking to a friend of mine a few days ago. We chatted about almost everything, and I was asking him how was he fairing at work lately?

Surprisingly, (as some of us are jobless) he was telling me that he was very busy, so busy that he has been working almost 12 to 16 hours a day for the pass few months! And he still has to carry on for the next few months until the incoming inquiry for his company products slow down or there is an increase in the workforce in the office to lighten the burden.

I was curious and surprise!! How envious I am of his company, as the markets in general is not doing well!

He told me that he just changed to this new job and he is sort of being ‘programmed’ in a way that he needs to reply dozens of email a days and also to prepare proposal and quotations for all the incoming jobs inquiries (he wish he could) ASAP, beginning from the second day he was in the new job!

Unfortunately, that is not the end of the story; his direct superior was so busy that he received no coaching and guide from his boss and also because he is new to the job, the systems, the products; almost everything he was starting then, has to be done in an intensive on-job learning manner.

To add salt to the wound, the one and only senior colleague reporting to the same boss who was instructed to provide guidance and help did nothing to help, but made life difficult by simply pretending to help. Sounds familiar??

Fear on the new environment, worries of the quality and suitability of the proposals and relevancy of the quotations, concerns of his performance in the new job, and all other sorts of stresses keeps adding pressure!!

Wow, what a tragedy!!

However, I am truly astounded and impressed by his attitude reflected in the conversation that took place after:
We are not the hot tempered youngster as we were those days. Control your temper wisely. We are the ones who should take control of the anger and stress within, before our panic-stricken and mindless reaction take over that will turn out to be something regrettable soon after.

Release whatever the pressure building up inside you, before it explodes! Don’t you ever become a pressure vessel loading endlessly without a release valve in place! Release it every so often by whatsoever means that work for you; perhaps by taking a deep breath, a cool bath, a stroll in the park, a hearty laugh, a shouting contest with yourself, or many other methods to overcome the brainless stressing behaviors that might rule your life out!

When you without pressure, you will think wisely and well!

What a significant effect a release valve can do, so go find the valves in you. Will you?

Cheers...
Salt

Cold-Call Sales-Stress

I don't know about you, but I've had my fair share of anxieties and stress over sale calls, particularly cold-calls, even over the phone.








To begin with, I'm an engineer by education and vocation, but eventually found myself to bore too easy with the life on a desk engineer, and soon defected to the "enemy" camp of sales/marketing and business. However, even before my "conversion", I knew in my heart that I would not LOVE sales and are not at all intrigued by going after sales and targets. I guess I'm just not even money motivated enough to chase after the commissions. So, why did I get into this job? Well, that's a long story for another day...

Recently, I had to once again engaged in cold calls to set appointments for visits to promote my company's services. I had the usual reluctance, mostly due to false expectations and anticipations...mostly negative and unreal fears. I mean, come on...what could anyone do to me over the phone?? Yet, I was still nervous and all worked up to make the calls and set the appointments.

However, thank God that it does pays to have experience. I listed what I needed to say and points that I needed to get through, particularly key words I needed to use to help me explain myself prior the making any sales call. This helped minimize the "ah..." and "umm..." and give me a little more confident in what I had to do.

So after a prayer and some calls later, to my delight I managed to secure a fair bit of appointments. All those fears and stresses amount to nothing. Wasted.
Not that I'm complaining...but I am reminded once again that with a little faith and preparation, I could actually minimize, if not eliminate stress from making sales calls in the future. If you ever encounter such similar problems, I hope my sharing would give you some ideas that will make it work for you as well....

Cheers....Light...Out.

My first STRESS on blog!

Hurray! Bravo! Thanks to my buddy Light, he really lighten me up when I see the blog become a reality, after so many hours of thoughts, waited so many days for myself to finally kick start as a blogger!

Something that I’ve wanted to do since early of the year.

I was definitely STRESS by my buddy Light when he told me that: "OK, fine, let blog-up now whatever we have been complaining all these while, speak up of things that has kept us in constant worries all the time, at the work place or even at home...RIGHT AWAY!"

Ironically, I'm here blogging about stress, while having all these stress and pressure from my buddy Light to take action and start writing.

At the outset when I met up with Light again recently, I was looking forward to catch up on old times and indirectly (while I am writing to this blog now, I reckon that at that particular moments) find a buddy to sit down, relax and maybe to voice out all my dissatisfaction in the work place, to find a way to release the ‘SICK’ inside me and inadvertently hoping to find someone that might share a similar experience at their work place (sorry to caught you Light, my brother, ha ha ), and eventually assuring myself that I am not the only one out there that is having those trauma at work. So a pat on the back, and get back to working with STRESS.

What a true statement, “ If you can't beat them, join them!”
I almost fell of my chair raising both my hands and legs immediately in agreement with Light.

Just as I was worrying and stressing before I started to pen down my thoughts for your reading pleasure now, the STRESS of writing a blog is no longer exist!

I just did it so naturally, and feel so spontaneous in speaking out my thoughts to share with all of you out there, in hope that blog will serve as a simple and effective solution to one and all to OVERCOME the STRESS that is always present and hidden within us, when we bring it all out to the open by verbalizing it right here and now.

To all the always-in-stress friends out there, we are not only declaring the battle on STRESS at work, but also to find ways of embracing STRESS together with you readers, perhaps even to befriend STRESS itself and take this friend together with us walking into tomorrow without fears and the many more tomorrow ahead of us!


cheers , toss for nostressatwork.blogspot.com


by Salt

The first fight: Battle of the Stresses

A buddy of mine and I decided that we've had enough!! We've finally decided to draw the line here. Work, job, career, money churner, stepping stone...whatever you call it wherever you're from, my bet is that you too have the same struggle against the common enemy, STRESS.

My buddy, nick named Salt and I came to work together in the same office about 6 years ago. We've endured long and tough work loads and ever demanding situations and bosses during the two years I was with the company. Four years has passed since I left the company, yet the nightmares of stress that I underwent is still vivid in my memory. I thought I had left for good the stress when I tendered my resignation, but lo and behold I was served larger and newer bowls of pain the last four years in my various "adventures" in other jobs. When I met up with my buddy Salt recently, I was not surprise to discover that he too was enduring similar pain at work.

Thus, we decided that we had to do something about it. We decided that we had to find a way to overcome stress. Not necessarily that the work in the office was bad or that you have a nasty boss, but work in itself will inadvertently have the tendency to promote a sense of tense, ie: STRESS.

If you can't beat them, join them!

If stress is always present and real, we shouldn't deny it. Neither should we close our eyes and try to wish it away. Instead, we have to confront the enemy. We have to embrace stress. We have to OVERCOME stress.

So the battle begins. We are dedicating our lives and time to search for solutions and strategies to managing stress. This is the reason for this weblog.
It is our intention that we can share with our friends all over the world, what we have experienced and could find to aid in the constant battles against stress. We hope that you will benefit from this, and also contribute and add to this log your own experiences and encouragement.

It is said that one of the best ways to release stress is to verbalize it. So please by all means, verbalize it here as we will.

Hope you'll enjoy as much as we hope to....cheers..... :)

Light...out...