Field Guide to Stress Management
(Updated June 2008)
Are you prone to "desk rage"? Are you on call for your customers 24/7/365? Have too little time to do everything you need to do? Never have time to exercise, relax with your family or spend time on your hobbies? Find out about the negative effects of stress on your body, the impact of stress at work and ideas for coping with stress in the articles and books in this guide. (A. Siudzinski, Information Specialist)
Contents:
How Stress Affects You | Stress Management Tips | Stress at Work | Books, eBooks & Other Resources
Symptoms of Stress 
Sleep problems
High blood pressure
Upset stomach
Back or neck pain
Isolation from social activities
Moodiness
Source: Signs & symptoms of stress, (Helpguide.org, 2003).
Tips to Relieve StressBe grateful for what you have
Pick your battles
Live in the present
Take a walk outside
Don't multitask
Remember that you can't please everyone all of the time
Don't be a perfectionist
Source: Sales Meeting Toolkit: Reducing Stress, (REALTOR® Magazine Online Exclusives).
How Stress Affects You
Debt stress causing health problems, poll says, (MSNBC, June 9, 2008).
Burn Out, (www.agentgenius.com, Mar. 24, 2008).
Reading the stress barometer: Are you at Code Orange?, (Washington Business Journal, Jan. 28, 2005).
Do you know your early warning stress signals?, (www.healthology.com, Jan. 17, 2005).
The different kinds of stress, (APA Help Center, American Psychological Association, 2005).
Physical description of stress, (www.intelihealth.com, July 31, 2003).
Stress Management Tips
Real estate agents meditate to cut stress of slump, (Orlando Sun-Sentinel, June 25, 2008).
4 Ways to Beat Office Stress, (U.S. News & World Report, May 12, 2008).
You deserve a break today, (Office Solutions, Jan. 2008).
How to help reduce stress at work, (management.about.com, 2008).
Get a handle on stress, (Florida REALTOR® Magazine, Dec. 2006).
Tips for a less-stressed workday, (stress.about.com, 2005).
Here's how our readers say they lower their stress levels on daily basis, (The Business Review (Albany)), Sept. 10, 2004).
Master the mental and emotional stress of selling real estate, (Realty Times, May 10, 2004).
Take an 'inner vacation': how to relax when you're chained at your desk, (Wall Street Journal, Oct. 9, 2003). Q
Say yes to less stress, (Office Solutions, July/Aug. 2003). Q
Get a life: feeling stressed, overworked, and lacking in personal time?, (REALTOR® Magazine, May 2002).
Manage your stress: ten ways to ease stress, (Cleveland Health Clinic Health System, 2000).
Stress at Work
Real estate mess hurts those in field twice, (MSNBC, June 19, 2008).
Desk rage: Workers gone wild, (www.msnbc.com, Nov. 27, 2006).
Managing overwhelming responsibilities as a REALTOR®, (Realty Times, Jan. 10, 2005).
Stress in the Workplace, (Discovery Health Channel, 2004).
Sales Meeting Toolkit: Reducing Stress, (REALTOR® Magazine Online Exclusives).
How to manage stress in today's fast-paced workplace, (San Antonio Business Journal, Oct. 31, 2003).
Stressed out: can workplace stress get worse?--Incidents of 'desk rage' disrupt America's offices, (Wall Street Journal, Jan. 16, 2001). Q
Books, eBooks & Other Resources
eBooks.realtor.org
The following ebooks and digital audiobooks are available to NAR members:
Easy Step by Step Guide to Stress and Time Management (Adobe eReader)
Learn to Relax (Overdrive Digital Audiobook)
The Stress Management Sourcebook (Adobe eReader)
Deal with Stress (Adobe eReader)
Get a Grip! (Adobe eReader)
10-Minute Stress Manager (Overdrive Digital Audiobook)
Books, Videos, Research Reports & More
The resources below are available for loan through Information Central. Up to three books, tapes, CDs and/or DVDs can be borrowed for 30 days from the Library for a nominal fee of $10. Call Information Central at 800.874.6500 for assistance.
Stress management for dummies, (New York, NY: Wiley, 1999). BF 575 E15
Don't sweat the small stuff. . .and it's all small stuff, (New York, NY: Hyperion, 1997). BF 637 C19
Magic or madness: surviving stress in real estate, (Lincoln Center, MA: Heritage House, 1993). BF 575 G31
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