28 days of stress management tips
Stress affects all of us at one time or another, so here are some daily stress management tips.
Summary: Stress management is important and can be done by helping your body, your heart, your mind, supporting learning, encouraging being in nature, creativity, and self-development. There are small actions you can take to promote mental well-being and help you manage stress.
I discovered the VIA Calendar of Stress Management Tips this morning, and was inspired to create my own version — then naturally the next step was to share it here, in case it could be useful to anyone of you fine people. (Hopefully it is!)
Each tip is designed to be a prompt for that day, but this could also act as a shopping list to pick from as you like. You do you.
Stress Management Tips
Getting up close n' personal with a flower
Body
Do 10 minutes of stretches
Take a bath, spa or go for a swim
Eat only healthy food today
Drink 2 litres of water today
This is me and my other half <3
Heart
Call, text or email a friend you haven’t seen for a while
Tell someone you love them
Send a postcard
Listen to a song that makes you feel nostalgic
Railroad Ink is a new addition to our game collection
Mind
Meditate
Play a word game like Wordle, brain teaser like Sudoku, or do a crossword
Read a few pages of a book (or listen to an audiobook)
Do a puzzle, or play a board game
An Mpavilion panel talk
Learn
Listen to a podcast about health or self-improvement
Try Duolingo (or another language learning app)
Watch a TED talk
“Interview” a knowledgeable friend on a topic
A particularly glorious sunset on Waiheke Island
Nature
Spend 5 minutes examining a plant or flower
Connect with the earth by laying down, or standing barefoot
Go for a walk, ideally at sunrise or sunset
Sit in your garden or a park and watch for birds
My recent attempt at drawing some things
Creative
Look at some art
Make something
Write a short story, or a haiku
Draw something
My personal values
Self
Do the VIA strengths survey to learn your strengths
Figure out what your personal values are
Set some life goals with a napkin plan
Start a gratitude journal
Your turn!
There are two versions here: the prefilled option (PDF), or a blank template for you to either copy the Google Doc (to adapt for yourself), or download the PDF (to write on directly). Enjoy!
One calm moment can shift your day. Let’s build more of those in.
It's amazing what changes when you pause and give yourself space. If one stress tip helped, imagine how it could feel to bring that same sense of ease to your whole week or your whole business.
For creatives who want room to breathe
The Organised Creative operating system is a Notion template that helps you hold your ideas, plans, and projects in one place, so your mind doesn't have to. It's a gentle structure that supports your flow without stifling it.
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For anyone ready to design calmer systems
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Because less stress doesn't just feel better. It makes everything work better too.