Overcoming emotional tension

Anxiety and nervous tension are two devils that spoil one’s success and calmness. Charting and writing down the various work processes or operational tasks to achieve the targets that could be corporate objectives and business goals can overcome nervous tension and anxiety.

Successful people write down lists of all their ambitions in life. They then discard the unattainable. The attainable or practicable wishes or dreams they keep. They then start their journeys to attain them. These dreams and ambitions become their goals and life’s objectives.

As a business manager, you can decide what you can get on with, and make the very best of what you can attain. Avoid nervous tension. Also remember that if wound up too tightly, people end up being restless and anxious.

When this occurs, little problems will appear huge and insurmountable. Then they start to squander energy and exaggerate their troubles. Within themselves they carry the so-called “germs of frustration”.

Their desire for success would then be greater than their satisfaction with the successes they have achieved. A good business manager helps his frustrated or dissatisfied staff get rid of their frustrations by recognizing the sign of nervous tension and anxiety.

Recognizing the signs of fear, anxiety and frustration.

· Antagonism

· Bullying

· Nagging

· Anti-social attitudes

· Chip on the shoulder

· Laziness

· Gossip

· Giving up

· Rigidity, and

· A closed mind

A person who is calm, mature and well adjusted knows he has to give and take. If he continually only takes, this could lead to frustration.

Emotional tension is of the mind, but it can have profound effects on our body also. For example, anger makes a person’s face flush, and this can cause an ulcer in the long run. High blood pressure is attributed to frequent build-up of tension and hypertension.

We also understand that many vital physical processes are influenced or are affected by emotions. Psychologists advocate that our minds affect our bodies much more than our bodies affect our minds.

In some of the organizations that I have worked in I have come across a few “high-blood pressure personalities”, Not because they have poor health or heredity genes: rather their ailments cropped up over the years when they disagreed furiously or resented their higher authority’s decisions or judgments. Neither is it hard works that kills, but negative attitude.

Remember that any underlying sourness within us, against our society or the world in general, could be the start of an ulcer. If we are successful, the success can bring improvements in our physical and mental condition. But if we fail, the failure can do the reverse.

The other issues are anxiety and fear. Again it has been proven that, apart from ulcers, heart attacks cold also be brought about by anxiety or fear. Striving over mightily for success, and the fear of success not coming one’s way, can lead one to disastrous coronary ailment.

Displaying emotional maturity and physical soundness:

Emotional maturity is essential to business success. It can be said that a person has come of age emotionally, and has acquired new personal habits and emotional attitudes when he can deliver good judgments and provide wise decisions. The antics and clowning of a five-year old, for example, will not suit a 30-year-old. A teenager can afford to giggle at everything and anything. None of this would be right for an adult who is deemed to be mature.

The key to changing personality is insight or gut feeling. To help and lead others the business manger must have this insight, because self-understanding brings emotional release. He has to realize that listening to his people is as important as telling them what to do.

If he listens to and understands his people, he can have the keys to their personalities. The general saying is that good leadership is worth millions. If this is to be believed in an organization, the wrong type of leadership will lead to higher absenteeism and employee’s dissatisfaction.

Even the most generous salary or high wage may not produce good output under a tyrant and egocentric superior. Knowing this philosophy then, it would be better to lead rather than drive command for the best output and results.

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