Again, I missed Miss Jaya’s Final year project class and I really regret that I overslept that morning. Well, nothing can change the fact that I didn’t come and I’ve been called by the course coordinator to explain why I didn’t attend the class. It was frustrating for me since this is my final semester and its only 2 more months before I graduate. Well continue to the main topic, since I didn’t come for this week’s class, according to my classmates, for this week’s class, Miss Jaya discussed about the stress management and various stress management strategies. Well from the article regarding stress management that I received from my classmate, what I have read and understand is that stress can be both good and bad; this depends on how the individual handle their stress. For example some people consider stress as a challenge for them to achieve their goals thus they energetically rise up to the challenge and go for success, while some are very stress sensitive and can’t accept any kind of stress at all. But too mush of stress can’t be good because it could affect that person’s health mentally and physically. This week’s article explains couple of stress management techniques such as:-
a) Avoid unnecessary stress
- Learn how to say “no”
- Avoid people who stress you out
- Take control of your environment
- Avoid hot-button topics
- Pare down your to-do list
b) Alter the situation
- Express your feelings instead of bottling them up
- Be willing to compromise.
- Be more assertive.
- Manage your time better.
c) Accept the things you can’t change
- Don’t try to control the uncontrollable.
- Look for the upside.
- Share your feelings.
- Learn to forgive.
d) Adapt to the stressor
- Reframe problems.
- Look at the big picture.
- Adjust your standards.
- Focus on the positive
Well there’s a lot more from where that came from such as healthy stress reducers and stuff like that, but it will be too long to list everything in here. So continue with final year project, I’ve done a pretty nice job in designing my system interface (well that’s what I think and I hope other’s too) since it is really what I wanted because there sometimes people didn’t get what they planned and intend to do. Now the sad part is that I haven’t start anything on the content yet. As for my documentation, I started to write my project goals and risk analysis as a start. Well back to the good news again. Next week is the semester break. I’m looking forward to it, not because I can relax but I want to take this opportunity to do as mush as I can for my project in hoping that I will at least finish 80% when the class starts back. So happy holiday’s guys.
