Take ten minutes to try one of the below activities and decrease your stress levels:

• Exercise- exercising helps to release muscles that are tense and releases endorphins
• Get organised- create a to-do list to help you focus on seeing each task through to completion to avoid feeling overwhelmed
• Breathe- anxiety affects your breathing. Taking a few deep breaths to slow your breathing and heart rate and relax your muscles, this calms your mind. Have a look at Anxiety Australia’s guide to slowing down anxious breathing and com,
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The Burnout Club has extensive information and lots of self-care ideas to manage & avoid Burnout. Here are some quick tips, which go across our other pillars of wellness support:

• • Exercise
  • Eat a balanced diet
  • Practice good sleep habits
  • Ask for help- during stressful times, it is important to reach out for help

Psychology Today provides some great suggestions for Cultivating Helpful Conversations, Health and Friendships, here is a summary:

• Notice it when things do not feel quite right while you are ensconced in your device
• Plan to participate in the real world—meet a friend
• Have conversations without devices in view
• Find a way to form deeper friendships
• Be in a conversation rather than putting on a performance
• Figure out, for you, when your needs are best met by technology and when nothing will replace a human interaction
• Develop empathy by listening, observing, learning, and asking questions
• Deep friendship heals
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Here are some suggestions:

• Take charge of your own career growth, invest in your personal and professional development
• Proactively seek out information that you need to do your job and make important decisions
• Ask your boss for feedback. If you are not receiving regular feedback from your supervisor, start being proactive about requesting it
• Make commitments you can keep. One of the most serious causes of work stress and unhappiness is failing to keep commitments
• Choose to be happy at work. Avoid negative conversations, gossip, and unhealthy work relationships as much as possible. Negative people have a profound negative impact on your psyche. Try to distance yourself from those people. If that is not possible, do your best to redirect conversations onto more positive topics. Consider talking to your Wellness First Aider about creating a company culture that values positivity and cooperation
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Here are some mindful ideas:

• Do not Take it Personally, give others the benefit of the doubt by “assuming the worst”.
  There was a passenger on a train in New York. When the train stopped a man walked in with three young kids. The kids were noisy and unruly. The man did nothing to discipline the kids. The passenger got agitated and frustrated and said to the man “can you PLEASE discipline these kids!” The man apologised and explained that they had just left the hospital where the kids’ mother had passed away
• Do not give in to impatient urges. Instead, breathe deeply, and create space to act with intention
• Be at peace by sharing your smile
• Even the most positive people wake up on the wrong side of the bed from time to time. In these situations, self-awareness is the first step to spreading positivity to others
• Choose to navigate situations mindfully, with nonjudgmental awareness, and you will have the opportunity to act with intention