How to Deal with Stress

• Remove yourself from the stressful situation
  • Give yourself a break if only for a few moments daily
• Don’t sweat the small stuff
  • Try to prioritize a few truly important things and let the rest slide.
• Set realistic goals for yourself
  • Reduce the number of events going on in your life and you may reduce the overload
• Don’t overwhelm yourself
  • Don’t fret about your entire workload; handle each task as it comes, or selectively deal with matters in some priority
• Try to “use” stress
  • If you can’t fight what’s bothering you and you can’t flee from it, flow with it and try to use it in a productive way

More Stress-Fighting Tips:

• Build a Master Schedule.
• Make daily “TO DO” lists.
• Plan Ahead!
• Create deadlines.
• Stop when a task is 95% perfect. The last 5% will take double the time.

Develop Good Time Habits

• Take regular short study breaks.
• Wait to reward yourself until you meet a goal.
• Be productive while waiting, carry work with you (flash cards, crib sheets, etc).
• Have regular times with the Lord.

Stop Procrastination

• Try an unpleasant task for 5 minutes.   (If you start you’ll generally finish.)
• Break a job into parts and tackle them one by one.

Stress Fact Sheet (PDF)

Test Anxiety Quiz (PDF)