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Women, Stress and The Workplace

We Do, Do, Do, and Overdo
Guilt, was an underlying reason why we push ourselves so hard to excel both at work and home:

“We’re working more hours, more extreme hours … Our standards for what it takes to be a good parent, particularly a good mother, are insanely high and out of proportion to all reality. We all feel like we’re not doing enough for our children, so in our guilt, we do, do, do, and overdo: more lessons, more teams, more sports, bigger birthday parties, more educational outings. And we all feed off each other, particularly as we look to the future, see a changing global economy and so much uncertainty about what “success” will look like.”

Stress Take Its Toll
The heavy weight of stress is taking a physical toll, and it can negatively impact all the things that help productivity, including mental clarity, short-term memory, decision-making and moods. What’s more, women tend to internalize, which contributes to their stress because they hesitate to speak up for themselves or challenge behaviors they see as unfair.

Take Control of Stress
The key to managing stress in today’s fast-paced workplace is taking a disciplined approach to finding balance and maintaining your own well-being. We offer these five daily rituals on conquering stress in the workplace:

• Get Inspired: Get up early and spend a few moments with yourself. Set one goal for the day, whether it be staying focused, connecting more with colleagues or having a better attitude.
• Assess Your Workday: When you get to the office, hold off on incoming emails or phone calls and address your to-do list first.  Assess and prioritize.
• Step Away From Your Desk:  Try to have a moment during your day when you step away from technology. Go for a walk and get your blood flowing – even breathing exercises can energize you.
• Beat the mid-day slump: The middle of the day can turn into a stressful time as you work to get tasks accomplished before you leave.  Switch things up, take your mind off work for a minute or two, and refocus.
• Reassess: Before you leave work, look over what you completed to get a handle on your progress. If you didn’t accomplish all of your daily goals, there’s always tomorrow.

Be Aware and Find a Supportive Network
Cultural pressures can play a big part in our efforts to maintain such a harried, stressful pace. It’s important to find the right support network, and to recognize our tendencies to over achieve. We sometimes create busyness in order to conform to this social ideal, that to be worthy is to be busy. The only way to change it, if we don’t like it, is to first be aware of it, be aware of that urge to conform, to be worthy, to be enough, which sometimes drives us unconsciously.

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Patty Block, President and Founder of The Block Group, established her company to advocate for women-owned businesses, helping them position their companies for strategic growth. Charting the course for impactful, sustainable, profitable businesses, the beacon is control: of your strategic direction, your money, your time, your staffing, and your ability to bring in business. The Block Group brings together the people, resources and ideas that build results.

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