PRDV005: Time and Stress Management

While none of us knows what our future holds, some of us take proactive steps to explore possibilities and opportunities open to us. Congratulations! You are beginning an exciting journey toward realizing your goals. In order to use your time productively, you will first need to learn more about yourself, your interests and personality, and how these factors relate to various types of jobs or careers. This unit offers resources to address this self-knowledge.

When you are focused on something that does not reflect one of your determined priorities, you are procrastinating. In order to overcome procrastination, you must first be aware that it is happening. Unit 2 will give you the steps to manage and resolve this self-created time waster, which minimizes your productivity and creates stress. Another effective time-prioritizing technique is to identify those tasks in your life that can be delegated to others. Many of us are guilty of trying to do everything on our own. However, there are a number of time-management benefits to you, the person to whom you delegate your tasks, and the organization as a whole, when you learn to properly delegate.

As you learned in the last unit, avoiding procrastination and learning to delegate successfully helps to reduce stress. Stress is normal. Everyone feels stress related to work, family, decisions, your future, and more. Stress is both physical and mental and can be caused by major life events such as illness, the death of a loved one, a change in responsibilities or expectations at work, and job promotions, loss, or changes. Unit 3 will help you understand the impact of stress and will give you key tools to help you achieve a more balanced and stress-free life.

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