Stress Relief for High Performers
Stress can come from several different sources. Please beware of the seriousness of stress and its consequences. Heavy stress can be hard to get rid of and professional help is recommended. This software is recommended if you have a situation where too many tasks are on you and this makes your situation stressed.
Stress in high performance situations
- Not knowing your way forward is one highly stressing factor.
- If you have a lot of responsibilities and all the tasks are just overwhelming then setting your priorities on a scale of two parameters – level of urgency and level of importance can help alot to relieve the pressure of stress.
These two factors are highly responsible for alot of our self-imposed stress in conjunction of the uncertainty of what the task really means. Edward de Bono has one creative technique that is called the Creative Pause. The fact that you actually take a look at what the things you are supposed to do really are, and what they actually mean, makes you take a Creative Pause and thereby you get a better understanding of the situation. This indicates that you will have the power to weigh the task between the urgent and important parameters.
The whole act of prioritizing has one objective in focus – making you less stressed and more efficient.
Setting level of urgency and importance
Break down what is important and what is urgent. This tends to put the task into perspective and immidiately reduce the level of stress you feel about the task. Or is it the uncertaintiy of the task that makes the stress go up? When you stop to think about how urgent a certain task is, you soon start to realize how you can put certain things aside since they are important but not urgent for you at this time. When you have sorted out your most pressing things no matter what level they are on, you can start your work to get all those things done in the right order.
This app is developed for the iPhone and is based on advice from group therapists and managers in high performance situations.
How to use it
- Tap change view to create your task to do.
- Create your todo in the Todo Setup by filling out the form and pulling the levels of urgency and importance to the approriate level.
- Tap Create Todo.
- Get a good overview of which Todos are urgent and which are important.
- When you have all your todos up there, click on one to see what you wrote.
- Tap Thanks to go back or Delete to remove it permanently.
Hints
When you have done the task in your todo, delete it. It gets cluttered quite easily.
You quickly see what’s fun to do and what’s boring to do by the color of the dot. Blue is fun and brown is boring.
If you have any real problems please write a mail to info@researchanddesign.se with the word “support” in the title.
Red version
There is also a red version of this app out. Some minor bug fixes and new graphics. And iPhone4 (retina display) ready.
