1. Build rewarding, pleasant, cooperative relationships with as many of your co-workers as possible.
2. Rate your work by order of importance and manage your time effectively.
3. Build an effective and supportive relationship with your boss. Try to understand his or her problems and help your boss to understand yours.
4. Inform your boss about your workload in order to keep assignments reasonable.
5. Negotiate reasonable deadlines on important projects with your supervisor. Be prepared to propose deadlines yourself rather than having them imposed upon you.
6. Find time every day for detachment and relaxation. Close your door for five minutes each morning and afternoon and take a "five minute visualization break."
7. Make a noise survey of your office area and find ways to reduce unnecessary racket.
8. Get away from your office or cubicle from time to time for a change of scene and a change of mind. Don't eat lunch at your desk.
9. Limit interruptions. Try to schedule certain periods of "interruptability" each day but conserve periods of time during the day in which you are not to be interrupted.
10. Make sure you know how to delegate effectively.
11. Don't put off dealing with distasteful problems. Accept short-term stress instead of the long-term anxiety and discomfort of avoidance.
12. Make a constructive "worry list." Write down problems that concern you and beside each, write down what you're going to do about them. Get your worries out into the open where you can deal with them.
Taken from Stress and the Manager by Albrecht and Selye.
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