让自己团结起来

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随着压力的增加,我们试图付出更多的努力,加倍努力,制定一个失败的战略,无法清楚地看到摆脱困境的出路。目前我们能做的就是希望我们的努力不会白费,最终我们能够成功。

退后一步,看看你在哪里

退一步…

不幸的是,在我们的生活中有时会感到不知所措,难以整理出自己应该做什么。没有清晰的道路指向秩序之路,我们可能会感到有些困惑。

同时,我们发现自己常常被拉扯到许多不同的方向,每个方向都和其他的一样重要,无论是学习生活、工作生活平衡问题还是家庭。事后看来,你会意识到应该退一步,花些时间评估自己的位置和应该做什么,但当你深陷其中时,一切都不那么直截了当。

但我们不应该担心,因为有一些事情我们可以做来帮助消除迷雾,为我们重新回到正轨清理道路,让我们深入探究并找出解决方法。

Get Yourself Together
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下降的雾

努力-奖赏不平衡模型中的另一个假设指出,过度承诺导致持续的压力反应...

过度承诺的人将他们的努力夸大到通常认为合适的水平之上,这种行为也在以个性为中心的倦怠研究方法中讨论。

Jenull, B., & Wiedermann, W. (2015)。工作压力的不同面向。应用老年学杂志, 34(7), 823-843。

忘记自己所处的位置是很容易的。我们的工作和/或学习方式倾向于鼓励我们有隧道视觉,专注于必须完成的事情;以这种方式工作有助于完成任务。

然而,如今我们越来越发现自己不得不同时处理多项任务,或同时专注于多件事,只是为了跟上日益增长的生产力、更好的成绩或在企业或社会阶梯上的晋升要求。

此外,很难拒绝增加的工作量,因为我们可能觉得这会影响我们的晋升机会或使我们在竞争中处于不利地位。

随着压力的增加,我们试图付出更多的努力,加倍努力,制定一个失败的战略,无法清楚地看到摆脱困境的出路。目前我们能做的就是希望我们的努力不会白费,最终我们能够成功。

 

没有明确的出路

然而,不知不觉中,我们被要做的事情淹没,没有足够的时间或精力完成它们,找不到摆脱我们所处混乱的明确途径。

就在这时,我们可能会发现自己处于一个“危险区域”,甚至没有意识到;通过无意中给自己施加过多的压力和要求,我们实际上是在给自己造成压力,并发现即使是最简单的事情也会让我们感到不知所措。

正如我之前所说,因为我们如此专注于完成需要完成的事情,我们可能会忽略一些告诉我们自己感到压力的明显迹象,因此错过了采取适当行动来缓解压力的机会。这些迹象包括:

  • 感到紧张
  • 愤怒和/或挫败感增加
  • 焦虑
  • 抑郁
  • 士气低落
  • 生产力下降
  • 集中注意力困难
  • 睡眠受扰或受损
  • 刺激物的消费增加(例如咖啡因或酒精)
  • 过度饮食

清晰度

现在我们已经建立了感到不知所措和压力之间的联系,以及压力对健康和生活质量的负面影响,我们可以做些什么来减少甚至更好地预防我们生活中压力的积累呢?

  • Work / Study for reasonable hours
    It’s tempting to put in more hours in “the grind” trying to get things done than is actually possible, so set a target for your productive times during a stint and divide your day into productive things to be done and other tasks that need to be done.
    This leads me onto a side issue that has been in the software development world for years regarding how many hours per day you are actually doing productive work vs. meetings and non productive work. There are those among us (me being one of them) that believe that at best you can’t get more than five hours of truly productive work consistently per day. There are exceptions, but they don’t tend to last so long. In fact there’s a post by Joel Spolsky from 2002 where he mentions:

“让我疯狂的是,自从我第一份工作以来,我就意识到作为一个开发者,我通常每天大约只有两到三个小时的生产编码时间。当我在微软实习时,一个同事告诉我他实际上只是每天从12点到5点去上班。五个小时,减去午餐时间,他的团队*喜欢*他,因为他仍然比平均水平完成得多。我发现同样的事情也是真实的。”

Joel Spolsky, founder of Trello, and Glitch, CEO of Stack Overflow from 2010-2019, Fire And Motion – Joel on Software

请注意,我并不是说你应该每天只工作4或5个小时,而是你应该找出适合你的工作方式,并在那段时间内完成大部分需要完成的任务。把更多的小时投入到一个问题上通常不会解决它!

  • Keep Family/Friends time or down time sacred
    Don’t sacrifice time for yourself and/or family and friends (or if you feel you have to, keep it at a minimum). To increase the quality (and perhaps quantity) of your life, a balanced work / social life is key. Although family and friends time can have their own stresses, the act of taking time out from an area and spending it in another can be all that is needed to lift our spirits (think, a change is as good as a rest).
  • Manage your workloads
    As with making sure you work within reasonable hours, managing your work takes it one step further. Make it a point to as best as you can organise the work that needs to be done, and where possible try not to overlap two or three demanding tasks with each other. If your work loads are out of your control, let your employer or manager know that it might be better to reorganise your workload so that you can be more productive. If you don’t ask you don’t get, so why not mention it to them (they’re human too).
  • Value yourself and the work/studying that you do
    By taking the time to truly know and appreciate yourself you’ll be less likely to abuse yourself with unreasonable demands and will eventually appreciate that your efforts are valuable. Doing this will eventually increase the quality of your output and productivity because you now work with value and purpose, which in turn will reduce the stress that you feel as you’ll be enjoying what you are doing.

Review

总之,通过减少你给自己带来的压力量,让自己整理好。这从改变你对自己和你必须做的事情的态度开始。花时间组织自己让这一切发生是你的责任,最终你为你所做的努力获得回报。

只是不要为此感到压力 ;-)

后记

“工作是对日常意义以及日常面包的追求,对认可以及现金的追求,对惊奇而非麻木的追求,简而言之,是对一种生活而不是周一至周五的死亡的追求。”

Cooper, C. (2003)。警察中的压力预防。职业医学, 53(4), 244-245。

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