Stress

Before high school stress was never really a huge portion of my life. Sure there were stressful moments but it never caught up to me it would just come and go. Being in high school now it has really picked up. Due to all the increase in homework and in difficulty, the uplift in intensity not necessarily in school but extracurriculars, in particular sports, everything has really just gone up. Obviously everyone has there moments of really stressful times but I think the best way to go about it is to try to limit it. Allow yourself to do things in order to limit the amount of stress you are put under. For me one of the major stressful moments this year for me was right before volleyball tryouts for club volleyball. I really wanted to make a certain team and had to work very hard to do so, so up until that time I was extremely stressed out. Couldn't sleep, couldn't focus, all of the symptoms of stress hit me, hard. All I could do was focus on the tryout itself, so in order to manage it I put more work into achieving my goal and that allowed me to stress less because when it came down to it, I was more prepared. Maybe you can't relate with a sport but maybe a test. Have you ever gone into a test and thought to yourself, "Wow, I really am not prepared at all and so not think I am going to do well."? Or on the other hand gone into a test thinking, "I am so ready to rock this test!"? You were probably more stressed about not being ready, that's how it was for me. For me, the biggest reason for stress is being unprepared, therefore in order to be less stressed I try to stay on top of my work and always be prepared.