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My Solution(s) to Stress

So it’s been a couple weeks since I blurted out all my problems with stress, and I’m happy to say that I’ve overcome all that worrying and anxiety by making a few changes in my life and they way I treat certain things.

The Flat

Getting a space of my own has been very important to me, and sorting it out has made a huge change to the way I feel. Although it’s only small it’s more than big enough for me, the perfect little hideaway from all the stress and worries of the rest of the world.

I do enjoy being alone, not that I don’t enjoy other peoples company, but there is something about that quietness and restful state, with little or no communication.

After a busy day surrounded by people asking questions and constant talking I really look forward to getting back to the flat to just take a load off and sit and think.

Or maybe I’m just a loner!

The Job

Whenever I am involved in a project I pour my heart and soul into it, simply because I want it to succeed. Sometimes this can cause problems, if things aren’t going well or are out of my control then I worry about it, maybe too much sometimes.

So I’ve been treating work more like a job and less like my life depended on it, stopped staying late and going in on weekends and worrying too much (that’s for the managers to stress about not me), seems to be helping out so far.

I mentioned in the stress post that I was quitting my job at Greenvoice, but I’m happy to say that I’ll be staying now, we talked things over and worked out some stuff to help reduce my stress levels too.

The work outside of work

Something else which I think contributed to all that stress was the amount of extra work and side projects that I do or am involved in. I really love doing all of these little projects and things but it means I never really take a break from work.

To solve this I’ve put quite a few little projects and things on hold or turned away work in favor of free time to myself as a means to relax. It also helps me focus my efforts if I’m working on less projects, which I have struggled to do ever since I started work.

The Technology

A lot of the comments about the stress post said I should try and get away from technology and the internet, unplug from the grid for a while to reduce my stress levels.

I choose not to do that, instead I kind of went to the other extreme, buying an XBOX 360, a large TV, Halo 3, Project Gothem Racing 4 and Call of Duty 4 to go with it!

Whilst I’m sure getting away from the electronics works for a lot of people, I’m quite the opposite, when ever I’m feeling stressed or annoyed, technology always works for me. Messing around with RAID, kicking everyone’s ass on DOD:S or even configuring a network helps to make me feel better.

I enjoy everything tech, it relaxes me and helps me take my mind off anything else that might be troubling me at the time.

The XBOX has done wonders for that, having not had a gaming machine of any kind of over a year and not having a gaming console for over 5 years I forgot how addictive, attention stealing and just plain fun they are!

So I’m feeling much better now, I don’t have an XBOX Live account yet, due to my lack of internet connection in my flat, hopefully will sort that out this week some time.

Thanks for all the great comments on my last post by the way, very much appreciated.