Common reasons for excessive stress & suggested solutions
There are some common reasons for students getting into situations of excessive stress.
1. Poor time management
Solution: Learn to manage your time better. Proper time management will help you personally and professionally.
2. Poor soft skills
Solution: Poor soft skills such as an inability to express yourself and communicate properly, inability to work in a team and poor inter personal skills can lead to stressful situations. These can easily be avoided by recognizing the cause to be the weak soft skills and addressing the problem. You should give importance to developing your soft skills and set quality time aside for that.
3. Unable to find the right balance between studying and pursuing other interests
Solution: Try to strike the right balance by setting aside enough time for studies and then making sure the rest of the time is mostly spent pursuing your other interests by minimizing time that is wasted and you do not do either.
4. Cultural, social, economic issues
Solution: For a student the first few weeks at an institution of higher learning throw up many social, cultural and perhaps even economic challenges. It takes some time before you make new friends and in general become comfortable with the changed circumstances. A student just needs to be a little patient and these stresses should go away. If they do not the student should not keep them bottled up but rather should speak about the issues with friends and faculty.
5. Unhealthy lifestyle
Solution: Physical activity, yoga, interesting hobbies are known stress busters. If you will incorporate these into your lifestyle you will not have challenging situations easily turning into stressful situations. |