| S- specific | To start the goal of achieving better stress management and build my knowledge on overcoming stress and anxiety as a leader for gaining salient objectives for improving my cognitive as well as my behavioural nature (Mento et al. 2020) |
| M- measurable | To measure my success by creating an action plan and checking to mark all the required fields in which I have been managing my stress well for being a competent leader |
| A- attainable | To attain the goal of being successful in stress management and developing a strong network of people with whom I may share my moments to ease out during a rise in anxiety |
| R- Relevant | To add relevant components that will enhance my stress management skill and hence my leadership skills through active experimentation of being more in contact with nature |
| T- time-bound | I want to improve my anxiety management techniques by 30 Sep 2023, when my master program is finished |
| I have set the goal of managing my stress with most of my peers and achieving the best out of all of this in a specific time, which I find quite exciting. I have figured out that I may do so through active communication and practising breathing exercises. I have found out that not only communication but also being more open in sharing experiences and not remaining isolated does reduce anxiety and stress for a vital time (Wolor et al. 2020). It is quite interesting to note down that team communication has a direct role to play in the system of anxiety removal, and thus it is often seen that communication may be required to improve the various systems of information dissipation (Kim et al. 2019). I have further found that setting a specific goal is not easy, especially when there are limited scopes of communication for me as I am more introverted and do not tend to share my experience when I experience stress. My mental well-being deteriorated after Covid-19 and I have noticed that I tend to become more stressed because of it, where this had been seen more in people like me who are heterosexual (Hoyt et al. 2021). Stress management is not a difficult goal to achieve, and yet it is one of the most fragile things to get on because I feel that I may need to know what are my fears and why I keep on procrastinating so much. On researching, I have found out that different students like me do a self-reflective process of analysis on themself to fight against the stress which I think may be helpful for me, as most of the time I am not being much oriented towards stress management through any combined efforts (Travers, 2022). I have been working sometimes from a remote space and I feel that being isolated and having almost no communication with my friends, I lack a support system which causes stress to appear. The real difficulty faced while communicating in a remote space and letting the communication achieve a certain level of clarity in the remote working structure increases stress levels as research papers suggest (Marlow, Lacerenza & Salas, 2017). I may say that I may measure the progress in an action sheet which will have the actual information evaluation in the form of measured metrics, such as the use of a feedback performance system and a measure of the input and output framework (Nap.nationalacademies.org. 2023). Here, the measurement will be based on the actual factors of time, the individual resource of different people, the budget that will be needed and the system of assessing the entire framework through a constant quality identification framework. I may add that the most relevant thing in the system of stress management is to find out the actual way of developing a more positive mindset and to be more oriented towards the brighter aspects of life than always focusing on negative aspects. Another relevant thing that I may think of is to develop a consistent system of practising my mindfulness yoga by being in various circles of people in such yoga groups and communities and thus I may say that this may aid me to get through stages of excessive anxiety. In addition to that, I have found that I may have communication anxiety and I sometimes face challenges in socialising, which has been by far one of my greatest weaknesses, and I feel that there are obstacles to my communicating in a social network over time. As for me, I have set the time of six months to properly promote my ways of overcoming stress through analysing the reasons for stress management, as research studies find that financial problems and lack of peer support may also cause stress to increase inside (Jones, Park & Lefevor, 2018). I feel that to manage my anxiety levels, I need to get on a daily morning run, which will reduce my levels of anxiety to a great extent and spend more time with nature as it does make the stress level drop beyond a certain point (Hunter Gillespie & Chen, 2019). | |
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