Houston Motivational Speaker talks about the biggest causes of stress? Coaching you to deal with stress?
Kathryn Watson- Houston Motivational Speaker and Trainer/ Life Coach
Thousands of people are dealing with stress at work each day. What are the biggest causes of stress?
Studies have shown that the biggest cause of stress is lack of control. In fact a study partially funded by Hewlett Packard found that employees who had to commute to work had higher stress levels than a jet fighter pilot going into battle. Wow! Why?
Lack of control. The jet fighter had a plan, he knew what could happen and he had backup plans. The commuter on the other hand has no idea what is going to happen on the road. He doesn't know if suddenly someone might put on their brakes or cut in front of him. He feels a lack of control. This is the biggest cause of stress.
Employees often feel this in their jobs as well. They can't really control how the boss is going to react or what kind of mood he will be in today. they can't control and have no choice in decisions made by their superiors, decisions that will often affect them. They are constantly dealing with stress at work.
Employees have little or no control over how others are performing at their jobs in the company and how a co- worker's lack of performance might affect their job as well.
Many people today have the added fear that their company may be laying off people and they could be the next one to go. The stress spills over to their home life and work/life balance???? What is that anyway? It sounds good but if you are like most of my clients you don't have a clue how to achieve it.
So if the biggest cause of stress is lack of control, what do you do about it? We will always have stress. That is simply a fact of life. The key is becoming resilient to the stress so it no longer affects you in a negative way
