Christopher Ellis explains stress management as removing clutter rather than adding more. Turn off notifications, cut news consumption, say no to things, write down your to-dos, and clean your desk. Five small changes that give your mind room to recover.
If your brain is still working at 10 PM, your body's not the only thing that needs to recover. It's also your mind. So what you need to do is addition by subtraction. So what does that mean? It means getting rid of unnecessary stress. There's so many things you can do to just delete the things that you don't need. For example, constant phone notifications. You don't need every app to inform you about everything. Turn off the settings, turn off the notifications for the ones you don't need. Get that out. Too much news. I get wanting to be informed, but there is too much where it's just so stress-inducing. Just dial it back a bit. Being constantly available. Set boundaries, learn how to say no. The mental to-do list, all right, this is an easy one. There's tons of apps, GTasks, write things down so you don't have to constantly keep it in your head, that's a stressor. And then clutter. I don't know how anybody operates in a cluttered environment. That to me is the same as what your brain looks like. Declutter and keep organized.
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