Personal tools
You are here: Home → Health Promotion and Human Performance → Stress Management → HLTH1110 → Lesson1 → My Top 10 Stressors

My Top 10 Stressors

Document Actions
  • Send this
  • Print this
  • Content View
  • Bookmarks

Stress Management Course Files

There are many surveys, assessments, and questionnaires to help people identify circumstance that cause stress and the intensity of frustration that they create. But these questionnaires can be quite impersonal and, typically, they tell us what we already know - that indeed we do have stress.

But oftentimes people are not aware of what the cause of their stress is because they don't take the time to examine it. More often than not, people ignore or avoid their stressors, hoping they will go away. Seldom, if ever, does this approach work, and usually these problems don't go away. In fact, they usually haunt us until we take some positive action.

The best way to begin to get a handle on the cause of your stress is to pinpoint exactly what is bothering you. By writing down what is on your mind you begin to get a better idea of what it's all about. So take a moment to think about what is on your mind, what is troubling you, or what caused you to get angry or afraid of something lately.

Using your word processor, make a list and then prioritize your top ten stressors from the most stressful to the least stressful. If you have more or fewer than ten, fine. Don't feel compelled to add more than you really have. Once you have made this list, describe each stressor in two or three sentences so you have a really good focus on each one.

Copyright 2008, by the Contributing Authors. Cite/attribute Resource. ajensen. (2007, October 05). My Top 10 Stressors. Retrieved November 22, 2009, from WSU Web site: http://ocw.weber.edu/health-promotion-and-human-performance/stress-management/HLTH1110/Lesson1/mytop10stressors.html. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Creative Commons License