Workplace stress usually takes form of everything needing to get done right now. You know situation, there are a dozen things on your plate and they all need attention, but there are only so many hours in day and you cannot attend to everything all at once. On top of that, boss is breathing down your neck, asking you where report/plan/program is and he also has a pile of other tasks for you once you finish that. It is a never-ending cycle, but it can be managed.

The first thing you need to do to avoid workplace stress is to focus on one task at a time. Do not try to multi-task, as it jars your system. Switching gears between projects does make demands on your brain and it takes a moment to change your thoughts from one place to another. Instead, if you focus on one project, you can keep your thoughts and energy in one place, preventing you from having to shift gears too often.

However, big problem with trying to keep your focus is your coworkers. They will always be asking you for a quick minute or they will want you to answer their question, or they will want you to come over and help them on something. Try to deflect these as much as possible, as these can distract your focus. Thus, you must learn to say, "no." This is a highly effective word, though you may want to change it to, "No, not right now," or, "As soon as I am done with this." These little phrases can at least buy you some time to finish what you are doing, then switch comfortably to needs of your coworkers.

Stress and anxiety are, at their hearts, mental problems. They are conditions in which mind is racing and constantly circling around certain concerns. The concerns may be seemingly mundane, but concerns keep recurring until they push out all other thoughts in brain and create their own towering mass of worry. And this tower is, in itself self-propagating simply because stress and anxiety tend to create themselves because stress and anxiety cause mind to condition itself to stress and anxiety.

There is research to suggest that mind gets used to stress and anxiety and, once it is conditioned, it will quickly return to stress and anxiety. In fact, there is some evidence that shows that stress conditioning may actually begin when we are too young to do anything about it. Children who face a great deal of stress will find their minds altered such that they will quickly return to a state of stress at slightest provocation. It is almost as though mind misses state of stress and anxiety and wants to return to it once it has found state.