Life on a construction site is mostly hectic, with several events topping the to-do list each day. Lifting, climbing, pushing, pulling… it’s not just physical tasks. A significant percentage is also dedicated to brainstorming, calculating, and measuring to ensure accuracy at all times.
Have you ever been so tired after a round of fieldwork that even answering your phone became herculean?
If you don’t pay attention to how much energy you expend to be optimal at work, you may not realize how stressed you are until later when your body starts to slow down.
Before we delve into managing work-related stress, here are some of the sources of stress at work.
- Excessive Workload
- Difficult Teammates
- Unrealistic Deadlines
- Conflicting Demands
- Unclear Job Description
Aside from the listed causes of work stress, several other factors influence how easy or difficult a job could be for you. So how do you manage stress?
Take time to recharge
If you enjoy your work so much so that you don’t feel like taking breaks, you may reach your work goals sooner than later, but you might also wear yourself out. Recharging at work sometimes looks like taking short naps, deliberate distractions, and stealing out short breaks to be alone and meditate to strengthen your mind.
Be clear on requirements
Another thing that may stress you out at work is getting your work requirement all wrong or getting the wrong instructions; in most cases, you would have gone far with doing the wrong thing before you try to retrace your steps. Eventually, the mind is confused, and the body is tired already. Ensure to get the exact job descriptions, roles, and responsibilities before engaging in any work. If it would cost you more time to ask questions or brainstorm, it’s better than getting it all wrong first and trying to rectify things later.
Avoid multitasking
Many workers thrive on the ability to attend to multiple tasks at once, but in most cases, dedicating time to a particular task before jumping on to the next one brings more focused results. To avoid stretching your body and mind’s capacity, avoid or limit the rate at which you multitask.
Take walks away from the site at intervals
To ease up yourself while at work, take walks away from the site at intervals during your break to unwind or get soaked in things happening in a different environment than the site. When you return to work, you will return with a refreshed mind and be motivated to continue from where you’ve stopped.
Automate manual processes
In most cases, getting engaged in manual work may drain your energy and leave you repeating the same process daily with slow results. No doubt, repeating processes slows down productivity and affects your versatility; hence, adopting easy ways to automate some of your everyday work processes with a technology like Seamfix Care could revitalise you for hitting the next work target.
A healthy mind and body does the job, actually. And since no one can motivate you as you would do yourself, therefore, you have to decide to be at your best and stay active without any mental or physical bothers while at work.
