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GS Article 8
STRESS & HIGH BLOOD
PRESSURE CONTROL VIA GOAL-SETTING AND PERSONAL
PROCESS MANAGEMENT
by Rajen Devadason
Health is better than wealth.
John Ray
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Extensive medical studies have
indicated a strong relationship
between the number of hours
worked and the hypertensive
inclinations of test subjects.
While not terribly
surprising, what is shocking is the
high correlation between those two
parameters.
If you suffer from
high blood pressure, then you must
pay attention to this truth: Those
who allow work-related stress to
constantly get to them tend to live
less happy, more unhealthy, shorter
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Nonetheless - realistically, speaking - what can
we do about this situation? After all, we know
relentless hard work is needed by most of us if
we want to have any kind of career. And,
frankly, isn't it our career that needs to be
nurtured if we ever hope to get ahead in this
increasingly wearying, competitive world?
I don't have all the answers, but
I do have a few suggestions that you can benefit
from.
To start with, I believe the
smartest thing each of us can do is make a
personal commitment toward learning how to work
smarter, without necessarily cutting back on our
long work hours... at least initially!
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This is an article explaining the
relationship between stress and high
blood pressure, and the role
goal-setting might play in helping
reduce both. I hope you enjoy
reading it. But if it isn't what
you're looking for, you're welcome
to search for something that better meets
your needs. Thank you for allowing
me to serve you.
Rajen Devadason |
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Over time (pun intended!) things should get
better. You see, just as seeds sown need long
spells to grow into a bountiful harvest, so too
do the 'smart' aspects of your new work habits
need time to generate personal productivity
gains.
But once they do, you can then begin to slowly
reduce your number of hours on the job each
week.
Isn't that worth shooting for?
If you answered 'yes', then the
best way to begin working smart is to put in
place an effective goal-setting regimen; one
that allows you to cut through the clutter of
each day's appointments and focus solely on the
relatively few tasks that bring you closer to
your core goals.
In this regard, I have written an
ebook entitled
UNLEASHED
that might prove helpful to you. To read about
it and decide if you want to invest in it, visit
me
here.
Another route toward working
smart, with a view to reducing work stress and
personal high blood pressure is described in
this excerpt from another article within this
archive:
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...consider using
core goal-setting techniques to put in place a
personal version of what is called business
process management in the industrial and
corporate arenas.
According to the
free online encyclopedia Wikipedia:
"The term
Business
Process Management
(or BPM) is a set of activities
which organizations can perform
to either
optimize their business
processes or adapt them to new
organizational needs. As
these activities are usually
aided by software tools, the
term BPM is synonymously used to
refer to the software tools
themselves."
While that
definition is replete with jargon, if you take
the time to look at it closely again, and
substitute your own words for your life, your
work or your family for the terms in that
definition that refer to the 'organisation',
you'll realise there is no reason why you can't
set up a series of personal activities that
optimise
your own life's processes.
Obviously, tools -
both software and intellectual - can and
probably should be used to help you in this
quest.
In my life, the
key eventual migration away from a stressful,
hypertension-inducing, life in journalism and
later in institutional investing as an equities
analyst was achieved through a careful process
of dream identification and goal-setting.
Over the years,
I've been able to reshape my life into something
that closely resembles my mental ideal. I'm not
there yet, so I still work hard, but more and
more I do so now on my own terms...
So, make a
decision today to put in place new processes
that will inject a fresh level of calm control
in your life. You don't need to use my books to
do so. Just carry out the research required to
help you identify ways to inject human-friendly
variants of conventional business process
management methods into your life.
Doing so wisely
should grant you access to internal and eternal
resources that will empower you to do far more
than you've probably ever dared to dream.
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In closing, I urge you to do 3
tangible things today to set sound,
exciting, invigorating, liberating goals:
1. Write them
down
2. Think about
them every day
3. Use them to
help you craft workdays that you enjoy rather
than dread.
Do all 3 things and your internal
stresses will begin to dissipate a wee bit at a
time... As they do so, you'll probably find
yourself gradually going home earlier each
evening!
Based on the academic studies
mentioned at the start of this article, at the
very least, your shortening work-weeks may well
help you bring your blood pressure under
control, assuming of course that it currently is
higher than you would like it to be! Note:
As with all
such matters, please be smart about this and
make sure you also consult a doctor if you
already exhibit high BP numbers.
© Rajen Devadason
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