Staying Reachable Every Evening Keeps Work Stress Switched On Long After The Workday Ends

The Message That Arrives Just As The Evening Starts

The workday ends at a reasonable hour, for once. Dinner is on the table and there’s a whole evening ahead. Then the phone lights up with a message from work, and answering it now seems quicker than leaving it until the morning.

One reply leads to another. Before long, half the evening has gone on rereading an email and rehearsing tomorrow’s meeting, while a colleague’s comment goes round and round. At bedtime the workday still hasn’t really ended, and the next morning starts with the same weight already in place.

Most people put this down to a demanding job and decide they simply need to get better at coping. So they keep answering, promise themselves a quieter month and carry on.

(If evening messages aren’t where it shows up for you, the same pattern sits behind the weekend spent half working, the difficult colleague who follows you home in your head and the to-do list that comes to bed with you.)

“You understand that although you are not always able to control the situation, you can always control your reactions.”

Steve’s own life once had pressure coming from every side: $80,000 in credit card debt, collection agencies beating down on his door and, after an eviction, an office he lived in and was about to lose. How he turned that around is further down this page.

Being reachable feels like the responsible choice, and at work it usually earns thanks. The catch is what it does to the rest of the day. When work can reach you at any hour, your mind never gets the signal that the workday is over, so the stress stays switched on, ready for the next message.

Coping harder works on the stress you can see in front of you. It leaves the habits underneath untouched: the late replies, the issues nobody raises, the stressful situations that never get written down or given a plan. Those habits repeat by themselves, so the stress returns the next evening and the only tool left is more coping.

That’s why the track starts somewhere that surprises a lot of dedicated people. Steve’s first suggestion is that you prioritize your own well-being over your work, because your mental health is vital in order for you to perform well.

Call it the Always-On Habit. It grows out of being dependable, which is why so many good workers have it, and it says nothing about anyone’s ability to handle a job. The cause sits in the reactions and routines you bring to work stress, and changing those is the job this track was designed for.

From $80,000 In Debt And Living Out Of His Office To Self-Made Multimillionaire

Steve lost his mother at an early age and grew up with his father, who battled alcohol abuse.

Later in life he went through a lot of career detours and failed business ventures, and he soon found himself $80,000 in credit card debt. Financial institutions and collection agencies were beating down on his door. He held on as long as he could, until he was evicted from his own place and had to live out of his office, which he was about to lose as well.

Think about what getting up for work looks like when the office is also where you live, and you know it’s about to go too. That was where things turned for Steve. He discovered a way to reprogram his mind to attract everything he needed, and to put systems in place that got his life back on track.

He used a combination of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) techniques and a specific framework for happiness and success, and from it he developed the Dream Life Mastery program for getting the results he wanted.

Today he’s a licensed Clinical Hypnotherapist and a self-made multimillionaire who manages 22 training certification programs in hypnosis and NLP.

Reduce Work Stress is built on the idea at the center of Steve’s turnaround, that change starts in the mind, and it puts that idea to work on the stress you carry home from your job.

Linda Abramson wrote this about Steve’s work:

“open a new door to a new path”

I would highly recommend you and your site to anyone who is fed up with the way things are now, this minute, and want to open a new door to a new path. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Steve Has Practiced Hypnotherapy And NLP Since The 1980s

Dr. Steve G. Jones is a licensed Clinical Hypnotherapist and self-made multimillionaire who developed the Dream Life Mastery Program to help other people reach their goals and make incredible breakthroughs in their own lives.

• Life and business coach to top Hollywood directors, sports stars and CEOs.
• President of the American Alliance of Hypnotists and of the American Union of NLP.
• Member of the American Board of Hypnotherapy and the National Guild of Hypnotists, and an associate member of the American Psychological Association.
• Four degrees: a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Florida (1994), an M.Ed. from Armstrong Atlantic State University (2007), and an Ed.S. (2009) and Ed.D. (2013) from Georgia Southern University.

“You are a proactive person on a journey of learning. You constantly grow and discover new ways to reduce stress and to flourish.”

“But I’ve Already Read All The Stress Tips”

Plenty of people know the standard advice by heart: take breaks, sleep more, make a list, learn to say no. Many have tried most of it and kept it up for as long as the week allowed.

That advice is good, and the track contains much of it. The difference is where it lands. Tips are aimed at the conscious mind, while the reactions that take over in a stressful moment are habits that fire before there’s time to think, so each new tip has to compete with them.

In deep relaxation, the track goes underneath the tips, to the reactions themselves. Then in the moment you can take a deep breath, consider how best to respond and act in a dignified and considered manner.

What Does Taking Work Home Add Up To In A Year?

These numbers only count the time your mind spends at work after you’ve left it, so leave the hours you’re paid for out of it.

Time is only part of the cost. Sleep, family and the hobbies that help you recharge all get whatever is left over.

Change the numbers until they look like your week. The tally keeps growing for as long as the Always-On Habit stays in place.

Six Habits Reduce Work Stress Builds Into Your Working Day

The first five answer the four habits that keep work stress going, and the sixth gives your working day a purpose.

When It Arrives, What It Plays On And How The Refund Works