Stress Management ( 1st part )

Stress, a familiar word to you is not it? Do you often experience stress? Stress seems to have happened to anyone.. Whether old or young, whether poor or rich.. Even a small child who wants to get out of the womb too stressed for the first time before he met with the world. He fought hard to get out of the womb. Elderly may also experience stress. A grandparent may experience stress because of the approaching death. A young entrepreneur can experience stress if you look at the share index change over time. Adolescent women also experience stress when getting menstruate. This proves that the stress is already a part of human life. Stress can not be avoided. Therefore, you are the one who should control the stress that comes in your life.

What Is Stress?
Stress can mean one thing that hit us. Stress can also be interpreted as the body's reaction to the environment by increasing the body's internal pressure and the tension between the muscles of the body. Stress that occurs in a long duration may bring the disease in the body. In addition to disease, stress can also steal your own happiness in this life. If you live with unhappiness, of course, life will be much more difficult.

Stress is often known as something that should be avoided, because it makes someone feel uncomfortable. Stress is often thought to bring about negative thingsThus, the meaning of stress for most people. However, if you look deeper, in fact stress is not always negative for your life. Stress is negative if the cause of your body system affected, beyond your ability to handle stress itself, as well as cause problems in your body. Negative stress is called distress (Girdano, 2005). Eustress or positive stress is stress that causes you to adapt and improve your adaptability. Eustress You can also commemorates if your ability is not mengangani sufficient stress so you can improve your coping skills. In essence, Eustress challenge you to live better.

Stress that you experience in life, whether positive or negative stress, can not be avoided. All you can do is to recognize your stress response, seeking the source of stress (stressor) you, to coping strategies (handling stress), and repeat in your life everyday. By making the fourth such action, then you can manage your stress better and live more happily.

Team Work [ 1st part ]

Man is a social being thus he needs to interact with people. Almost every individual has experienced, in one way or another, how it is to work in a group – from his childhood games to wherever he is now earning his living. Unfortunately, not every group succeeds in its objectives or goals. Failure is a possible consequence whenever we get into a challenge. However, we can always avoid this much dreaded “failure” if every member of a group would not fail to use or exercise TEAMWORK. Yes, every group of people must not only work as a GROUP where every individual works for his own advantage, but instead, every one should work as part of a TEAM – where he is working towards a common goal. When these “small contributions” build up, success is hardly unforeseeable.

How can a person work as part of a TEAM? It’s actually so easy: just remember the word TEAMWORK as a guideline. Also remember that all these should work together – should be there hand in hand from the conception of the team to the achievement of the final goal. No one of these can be enough and can work in isolation to be able to come up with a successful team.