Excessive stress and worry on the job can be harmful and may cause emotional and physical problems that may affects your health and work performance. When you are overwhelmed due to unforeseen situation, your body will releases adrenaline which increases your heart beat rate, breathing start to speed up and blood pressure shot up.

Stress grows! Excessive worry is a major contributor in the vicious cycle of tension. The stresses on your muscles, insomnia, headaches and other factors lead to catastrophic stress building thoughts. The negative thoughts then aggravate your unpleasant physical feeling and so on.

There is no difference from stress that occurs in the rest of your life and work related stress. Does the following sentence sound all too familiar with you? How can I handle the stress of my current job on top of everything else that's going in my life?

Nowadays, dynamic, team oriented organizations required creative, flexible and sustainable performance. This can only comes from people who are able to balance the urgent demands of jobs and their personal life without neglecting the any one of them. If you feel you are suffering from stress, you should find out which aspects of your life are causing it.

Although you may not be able to avoid or change them, you can adjust your lifestyle that can make a difference in reducing stress. You must have your own time management since it will help you organize your work. You should list down on your notepad all the tasks which you had on hand, the actions which have to be done, their deadlines, and how much time you are going to allocate for each tasks.

By having a planned time schedule, you will be able to keep track and not miss out anything by knowing what are the tasks that are ongoing. You may want to set a reminder or alarm on your computer system, palm, alarm clocks, etc to remind you of certain meetings and appointments. One way to reduce stress is to recognize the need to make changes in your lifestyle and the way you think and be positive.

Excessive stress is bad for your health since it will disrupt your ability to think clearly and calmly about things. This is especially true if you are thinking about the things that are making you stressed in the first place. Try to think afresh about your current job and work out what are the causes of the stress and ask yourself if you can do the job differently. You should be flexible in how you approach problems. 

If you have no ideas why you are stressed in the first place, keep a stress diary so that you can note down what it making you stress. You should ensure your workplace is neat and keep your desk neat and organized at all times. You should put the relevant information in their appropriate files. 

By keeping your desk neat, you will be able to work better and more efficiently. You should figure out how you can cope with time pressures, responsibilities, changes, deadlines etc by developing a new mental approach to stop them from overwhelming you. 

You should prioritize your tasks, taking them one at a time especially those important one first. It will be great if you are able to get rids of unnecessary tasks. When you are overwhelmed by stress at work, you may ask yourself these following questions. How much can I do? Is the deadline acceptable? 

What adjustment do I need to change? You should be realistic and delegate tasks if possible. Since it may be hard for most of us to assess our symptoms and if you are struggling with significant stress, you may want to consult a mental health professional for professional help.