When facing a current or upcoming task that overwhelms you with a lot of anxiety, first thing you can do is to divide task into a series of smaller steps. Completing these smaller tasks one at a time will make stress more manageable and increases your chances of success.

Sometimes we get stressed out when everything happens all at once. When this happens, a person should take a deep breathe and try to find something to do for a few minutes to get their mind off of problem. A person could get some fresh air, listen to some music, or do an activity that will give them a fresh perspective on things.

Dr. Respect at http://marcusgentry.blogspot.com says we must “protect, organize and prioritize our time”. If you are having any of above listed difficulties, then my guess is you are missing at least one of those elements.

Protecting our time is important. We all have same amount of time in a day. It’s what we do with it that is critical. Do you find yourself doing things you really don’t want to do or spending time with people who take more than they give? These are examples of not protecting your time.

Your time is your gift to spend, as you will. You can spend it wisely or you can waste it. It’s your choice. However, one thing you can’t do is get it back to do over again.

Sometimes we all do things that we don’t really want to be doing but when we do, it should be in furtherance of a bigger goal that we have. Maybe we don’t want to be going to work today but we want to collect our paycheck at end of week, so it’s something we choose to do to get to bigger payoff.

However, there are things that we do that just aren’t important, don’t lead to anything and waste our time. Can you think of any activities that fall into that category for you? Do you know that average American watches on average three hours of television each day? How is that for a time waster?

I know when I first got my computer, one of things I unwisely spent my time on was computer games. I don’t mean an occasional game here or there. I’m talking about an addiction, an obsession---playing solitaire until 2 AM. If I didn’t get that under control, I would have not only been wasting my time, but I would have been wasting my life.

I have three general categories for which I like to protect my time. One is for making progress toward my work/life goals. These are things I do to move me forward in life. These are generally geared toward helping people in some way, generating more clientele, and increasing my revenue streams.