Stress occurs when there is an imbalance between demands and resources. It can be either eustress, which promotes growth when demands are slightly higher than resources, or distress, which is damaging when demands are unmanageable. To manage stress, one must understand their life season and responsibilities, identify stressors, and take steps to increase resources or reduce demands to restore balance. Effectively dealing with stress created by oneself through this approach can help propel personal and professional growth.

1. StreSS – make it to work
for you
Easy approaches to manage your
Stress to propel your growth

2. Simple ways to get out of Stress that
reduces your performance is to
Understand what it is.

3. Stress is an imbalance between the
Resources & Demand
- Richard Lazarus
“The only rope that can tie all your
resources with you is to behave as
per the season of your life”
-Tiruvalluvar, 2000 BC

4. Stress is an outcome of Stressors
• To handle the stress, we should identify the
stressors.
• Stressors are the factors that create stress.
• Income, expense, relationship, commitments,
time, and poor maintenance of vehicle, like
this there are many stressors around us.
• Even an unexpected service call in a busy hour
is also a stressor.

5. Stress & Life’s season
• Your commitment differs according to your
life’s season.
• Childhood, Adolescent, Youth, Married, Parent
and Aged are some seasons of life.
• During each season, our responsibility is
different.
• The First step is to understand where you are
and what are all your responsibilities or
commitments.

6. Stress and Life’s season
• For an example, if you are not completing
your studies or acquiring adequate
qualification before your marriage, you are
not clocking according to your life’s season.
Then this creates a stress.
• Marrying too late, marrying too early, having a
baby too late, having baby too early are some
examples of not being with the Life’s Season.

7. Demands Vs Resources
• Stressors evolve when your demands are not
matching with your resources.
• Not allocating adequate time to complete a
task invites a stressor.
• Expecting too much form your employee
develops a stressor.
• Spending more than your income and reserves
creates a stressor.

8. The two types of Stress
• Eustress: When your Demands are slightly
higher than your resources
• Distress: When your Demands are
unmanageable with your resources.

9. Eustress
• If the demands are slightly higher than the
resources, you always have a chance to
increase your resources and thus helps you to
grow.
Resources Demands

10. Distress
• If the demands are unmanageable with your
resources and if it is too big, you suffocate to
handle the demands and thus you enter into
hostile situation. This is destroying stress.
Resources
Demands

11. Simple Calculation of Stress
Management
To manage the stress;
• Increase your resources if you can.
• Reduce your demands if you can not increase your
resources.
• Try both to have a sustainable balancing.
S=r-D
• If S= +ve, you don’t have stress. If S= -ve, you have stress. If
–ve is smaller, you can increase the resources and grow. If –
ve is huge, you enter into distress.
• If +ve is huge, you become lazy and don’t try hard. So, don’t
let your Stress to be in +ve always.

12. Direct & Indirect Stress
• Direct stress is the one which is visible. You can
feel or diagnose this type of stress. Once you
diagnose, you can cure.
• Indirect stress is the future stress or the hidden
stress.
• For an example, settling your mortgage
installments by your credit card develops an
indirect stress of paying your credit card dues
with higher rates.

13. Stress is good
• As the eustress can demand you to increase
your resources, it is forcing you to grow.
• Unless you have stress, you don’t intend to
grow your resources.
• Being in “No Stress” side for long will make
you lazy and you will never think of enriching
your resources.
• So, STRESS is Good since it proves you “who
you are”.

14. Stress created by you
• You create your Eustress. Don’t let others or
other factors to create it.
• If you create your Eustress and you achieve
balancing this, you have a sense of
achievement and pride.
• If others create you a Eustress, though you
thrive to balance and achieve, it leaves you no
clue of doing it on your own.
• It’s better if “YOU DO IT”.

15. Recall
• Stress is not a disease to be feared.
• Stress can be used to propel your energy and
can be used as a tool for growth.
• If your demands are much larger, instead of
trying hard to increase your resources alone,
try reducing your demands also.
• When your income is lower than your
expenses, try cutting few unwanted expenses.

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