8 Easy-To-Implement Stress Management Tips

You can reduce unwanted stress or manage it productively by employing these 8 stress management strategies.

 

1. Get Enough Sleep

Sleep is very important to the development of your emotional and physical well being. Lack of it can negatively impact your ability to manage stress, be productive, and complete daily-assigned tasks. Unfortunately, our busy schedules can make sleeping longer harder to do. If you’re finding that you are no’t able to get enough sleep during the night, do no’t underestimate the value of a power nap! That always helps!

 

2. Maintain Proper Nutrition

It is the most obvious tip on this list, but very few people follow through with it on a daily basis. A poor diet can actually make you more vulnerable to stress! While hectic schedules can make it harder to get proper nutrition, a poor diet is not unavoidable! Four most important things to remember when trying to maintain proper nutrition: 1) Don’t skip meals; 2) Drink plenty of water; 3) Exercise daily; 4) Eat more whole grains and fruits and vegetables.

 

3. Exercise Regularly

Exercise can vastly improve your physically and mentally well being and your ability to manage stress. It provides a stress release and keeps your body healthy. It also helps your body release endorphins, which boost your feelings of overall well being.

 

4. Maintain Social Support

Social support networks can help keep you healthier and happier, creating a buffer against stress. Friends and colleagues can pick you up when you’re under the weather, provide insights when you’ are befuddled, and help you have fun when you are feeling overwhelmed and stressed. Learn how to cultivate supportive friendships and expand your social circle so you wi’ll have someone to lean on when the time comes for it.

 

5. Disconnect

Being connected 24/7 is not the answer to everything. One of the simplest ways to restore a little serenity in the midst of a hectic week is to turn off the phone and shut the lid to your laptop. Unplug your land line during and after dinner, too.

 

6. Help Others

If you notice a waiter seems dispirited, leave them a good tip. Bag your own groceries for a tired clerk. Make eye contact with everyone you meet as you go about your day. Alleviating the stress of others is the best way to alleviate your own.

 

7. Write it Down

Writing provides perspective for individuals with poor stress management skills. Fold a piece of paper in half. On the left side, list the stressors you may be able to change. On the right, list the ones you can’t. “Change what you can!” For what you cannot change, create a list of goals and people that will help you make the changes possible.

 

8. Watch Your Breathing

Most of us don’t breathe enough normally; we take shallow breaths and deprive ourselves of oxygen. Add stress to that and we can even become light-headed. Sit in a quiet place, close your eyes and take 10 deep breaths. Inhale slowly and exhale more slowly. You’ll be amazed at how relaxed you will feel!

 

 

Very often, stress is caused by lack of resources and tools in the workplace, which would allow employees to perform their duties in the most productive ways possible. Employing an effective CRM tool will help you and your team establish and maintain better relationships with your customers….and who doesn’t like happy customers who continuously do business with you? It’s also a tool that takes a customer-centric approach to your sales and support processes by organizing data concerning your contacts, customers, and deals and making them accessible in one place.

Carmel Vision, a Toronto based CRM software development company, is focused on delivering a powerful management infrastructure that is designed to collect, search, and archive all content, contact and communication activities that take place in a typical office. We understand and listen to all of our customers’ needs and strive to give excellent quality at affordable prices.

Our flagship product, InfoFlo – is a central management system specifically designed to combat one of the biggest technical challenges facing any professional organization, how to efficiently organize, archive, filter and search the vital information that bombards our desktops on a daily basis. Our infrastructure allows all office activities to coexist together under one umbrella, making all critical information readily available at your fingertips.
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12 Sales Mistakes One Should Avoid At All Costs

You’ve never made a mistake, right? We certainly never have. It’s a pretty big deal, however, when those mistakes result in lost sales and wasted leads. Especially if those mistakes were avoidable! Here are deal-busting sales mistakes you should avoid at all costs.

#1 Selling to the Wrong Customer

#2 Selling the Wrong Product

#3 Failing to Provide any Proof or Metrics

#4 Failing to Show the Difference

#5 Underpricing Your Product

#6 Convincing and Defending as Opposed to Listening

#7 Failing to Proactively Answer Questions

#8 Failing to Follow Up On Time

#9 Being Unprepared

#10 Not Closing the Sale

#11 Going Off Topic and Not Thoroughly Researching your Customer and their Industry

For Management #12: Not Equipping Your Staff with the Tools and Software they Need  to Prosper in their Work Environments.

Purchasing the proper software and tools (i.e., CRM Tool) is not an easy process, especially when you have over a dozen vendors to choose from.

Think of selecting the right CRM tool like purchasing a garden hose. If you go to a home hardware store, you will notice that there over a dozen types of garden hoses to choose from. There are vinyl and rubber ones and hoses on wheels. There are also hoses made by Flexogen, Teknor and Craftsmen. Unless you are a professional contractor or gardener, you more than likely won’t know the difference and which one will best suit you.

Similarly, there are dozens of CRM applications on the market today. Unless you are a software/tech wiz, you will not be able to proactively tell the difference between each of them and what competitive advantage each has to offer.

What is CRM? A CRM tool is a database that keeps record of all interactions your staff have with the people and companies you do business with. A comprehensive CRM database ensures that nothing falls through the crack and that you stay on top of your deadlines and tasks day in and day out.

Carmel Vision offers an affordable, all-encompassing on-premise CRM tool  (InfoFlo) for all business, regardless of their competitiveness or size. All interested parties are welcome to download a free trial version of our CRM application. No credit cards and long term commitments are required. Click here to download.

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