How To Deal With Stress In The Workplace

4 Ways to Be a Stress-Free Employee at Work

Wise men once said that one needs to work with the things that he loves so that he may never have to feel like working for the rest of his life. It's a really nice quote isn't it? But still, in reality, we often cannot choose to work with things that we love for so many reasons. Bound with the social pressure, a stress-free employee at work is really hard to come by these days.

The High Cost of Stress requires Employee to be Stress-Free

In case, if you didn't know, a stressful employee is very costly to both the employee and the company. An online community for business owners called EnMast has summed up that the cost of stress in America has reached nearly $300 billion.

The staggering amount of $300 billion is divided into health costs, absent and poor performance. It means that the company will never reach its maximum profit while the employees themselves will never gain maximum benefit out of its professional career.

Therefore, it is highly important for an employee to be stress-free at work.

What can you do to be a Stress-Free Employee?

You don’t have to wait after office hour to be stress-free. As the cause of your stress occurred when you are at your office then you need to resolve it right at the crime scene. If not, then you are just going to keep circling back through a vicious circle. 

                                                                                                                    

1. Time Out! Yes, what you need is a time-out. Everybody needs a break every now and then, and whenever you already at your limit, it is alright to take a time-out.

2. Recharge and Refresh. A time-out allows you to take a solitary moment to enjoy yourself. Whether you are just daydreaming or dilly-dallying with coworkers, it is surely worth it to give it a try to be stress-free.

3. See Problems as Challenges. Once you are filled with positive energy, you can change your paradigm by seeing your problem as your challenge. Remember, stress comes because something is definitely worthy enough to be done.

4. Shift your Focus. Already tried hard enough, but still stuck with the same problem. Perhaps it is time for you to shift your focus to something else. An employee must be burden with multiple tasks, therefore, take it as your own plaything to jump around from one to another to alter your mood.

Now then, out of those four steps, do you found any that could not be done while you are at the office? Surely none, right!? Those four steps above can all be done during your office-hour to be a stress-free employee even if your boss often yelled at you. As in Buddha teachings, “Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”

Ideas For Landscaping

4 DIY Landscaping Ideas that Professional Don’t Want You to Know

The idea of designing your own landscape must have occurred every once in a while within everyone's mind. You see your neighbor's beautiful landscape and then you thought, "Hey! I know that I could do a better job on my own." The energy and inspiration are there but somehow you realize that you lack the skills and knowledge to do it. In the end, your landscaping ideas are just for nothing.

Why Is It So Hard to Make Your Landscaping Ideas Come True

For professionals, making one's landscaping ideas come true seems like a piece of cake. You can tell that even when they just looked at it only by gazing upon it, suddenly they already know what went wrong and what needs to be done.

So then, what is their secret? In order to make your landscaping ideas come true, here are the secrets of professional landscaping designer that you can follow. Yes even you, a novice gardener, can actually follow these simple steps.

1. Figure Out what Is Important.

Yes, you don't need to copy your neighbor's garden. If your neighbor Tom who has five family members owns a huge back yard with swimming pool and kids’ slider would you, a newlywed with 9 to 5 want one?

What you need perhaps the kind of a moonlight garden that could be your escape place from your everyday routine with your loved ones.

2. Do the Hard Part First.

Don't get too eager to set any plant yet. Yes, a garden should be all about plants but you need to think of the utility as well. How is anyone going to roam through it without stepping on your plant if you are not constructing any pathway?

3. Keep It Simple.

You don’t have to be so extravagant to make your garden look like a celebrity house which you can only see in MTV Cribs. Just keep it simple, not only in terms of design but also in budget. Make good use of flowering shrubs, vines and perennials.

Do keep in mind that simplicity here also means easier for you to manage your garden every day.

4. Beauty.

The beauty of your garden is in the eye of the beholder, and that is you. If you think that your garden is already enough, then it should be enough. You do

n’t need to turn your garden into a specimen garden by buying one of each plant.

What you need is to plant in a group of odd numbers. Make it in harmony by mixing a color that complements each other like pink with lilac and yellow with blue.

There you have it, the four simple ways to turn your landscaping ideas into a reality that only professionals could have done. Once again, beauty is in the eye of the beholder and once you already satisfied with your garden, then you don’t need anyone’s advice anymore.

                                                                                

Savings Plans For Those Who Start Work

3 Simple Ways to Start Your Saving Plan Now

As an employee, you surely don't think that you are going to work forever. Planning for a retirement is a must and, yes, it definitely takes money. In order to have a safe, happy, and relaxing retirement you need to start a saving plan and you need to start now, even if you just started to work.  

Retirement Fact 

• ·         Statistics Canada reported that 45% of Canadians planned to retire before reaches the age of 65
• ·         In 2013, the average retirement age for men in the US is 63.9 while the woman is at 61.9.
• ·    The retirement age in Greece is the longest reaching 67 years of age while Sweden is the lowest reaching 61 years of age.

How to start your Saving Plan – by the math

Remember that there is the word "plan" here. You cannot expect to just intend to have savings, but you need to plan it. Here is how you can start your own saving plan right at this moment.

1.        Set your goals for living expenses. Let say that you plan on living with $25,000 annually. According to U.S. News & World Report there is this 4 percent rule where you divide the figure of $25,000 with 4 percent and thus, you will need a total of $625,000 in your saving account.
2.        The amount of savings that you need to make according to your age. A simple but effective way of calculating your saving plan according to your age has been published by The New York Times. It is said that at least you must save half a year's worth of your salary by the time you reach 30, two times your salary by 40 and by the age of 50 and 60, you need to save four times and six times of your salary, respectively.
3. .       Start small. First, you need to calculate how big of a portion you want to spend for your saving plan. The safest portion is 10 percent of your entire salary. If your 10 percent amounted $400, in 12 months you'll get $4,800 which will bring you to $24,000 in 5 years.

Why most People Fail – emotionally speaking

The saving plan that people made is mostly correct. The problem is not on the plan, but more to the individual’s emotional state, such as peer pressure.

People are most likely to match their peers’ lifestyle in terms of expenses. Keep up with that kind of lifestyle and you will surely break your bank, lose your saving plan and ended up with no money at all during your retirement age.

It is never easy to stick to your saving plan for retirement but do keep in mind that a person cannot expect a pity of someone else, even if you are at your retirement age. You need to be able to stand on your own two feet and that is why a commitment to your saving plan is worth all the hard work.