Stress!

Stress is undoubtebly one of the biggest issues people deal with, especially college students. Mid-terms, papers, Final Exams, and if your an athlete, sports are all examples of the things us students have to deal with that causes stress. In my opinion, the best thing one can do to combat stress is to try techniques that decrease stress or bring enough awareness to it to where one can figure out how to eliminate that stress factor for happening. Stress will never be 100% eliminated but one tecnique I used to help with my stress is the Stress-o-Meter. The Stress-O-Meter is a graphic organizer designed to 1.) List the days of the week your focusing on, 2.) Check off how stressed you were that day on a chart of 1-5(least to worst), 3.) list what caused that stress and 4.) What stress reducer you chose to eliminate that cause of stress.The stresses in my life are pretty consistent week in and week out therefore using this method helps alot. Here's an example of mine:

The biggest thing to understand with stress, and I said this before, is that it will never be totally eliminated therefore you can learn to understand how to make it as minimal as possible. Thats what the technique does for you, it helps to show why you were stressed and what you can do to reduce it. There are so many things that stress me & for me to list them and see what I can do to change that is a big step