One of the main reasons of stress is the distractions you get in life. It throws you off balance because it is something different to what you are used to and it interrupts the flow.
Sometimes it is just very small things that can become major distractions. For instance, a messy desk.
One day, you might be given a sudden invitation to lunch with a colleague whom you wanted to catch up with for a long time. You were unprepared, so you started scrambling to get everything ready to go to lunch.
If you had a messy desk, you would start to stress out when you do not know where you keep your phone, your wallet and all the things you wanted to bring with you to lunch. Paired with the time constraint of making your colleague wait, you become more stressed out.
So the lesson of this story is to keep your work space clean and tidy. That also applies at home. By doing so, you will have 1 less thing to worry about in your daily life or when you are expected to drop everything and do something else.
Sometimes it is just very small things that can become major distractions. For instance, a messy desk.
One day, you might be given a sudden invitation to lunch with a colleague whom you wanted to catch up with for a long time. You were unprepared, so you started scrambling to get everything ready to go to lunch.
If you had a messy desk, you would start to stress out when you do not know where you keep your phone, your wallet and all the things you wanted to bring with you to lunch. Paired with the time constraint of making your colleague wait, you become more stressed out.
So the lesson of this story is to keep your work space clean and tidy. That also applies at home. By doing so, you will have 1 less thing to worry about in your daily life or when you are expected to drop everything and do something else.
