Stress Management Plan: Addressing Poor Time Management at College

This report presents a student's stress management plan, focusing on the primary stressor of poor time management. The student, balancing college and part-time employment, details the challenges faced, including lower academic performance and mental stress. The rationale highlights the difficulties in balancing academic and work commitments, leading to delayed tasks and pending deliveries. The goal is to complete a project by a specific date while maintaining employment. The report outlines actionable steps, including prioritizing tasks, organizing work, creating a daily schedule, and working from a calendar. The student identifies potential barriers and proposes solutions. The plan incorporates stress management techniques and provides a timeline for achieving the set goals. The report includes a bibliography of sources used.

Running head: Stress Management
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Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Primary Stressor...............................................................................................................................2
Rationale..........................................................................................................................................2
Goal..................................................................................................................................................3
Benefits............................................................................................................................................3
Action steps.....................................................................................................................................3
Barriers............................................................................................................................................5
Solution............................................................................................................................................5
Bibliography....................................................................................................................................6

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Introduction
The reflection report is prepared on ‘Stress Management Plan’. It is prepared to provide
an overview of the current major stressor and the effects of the same in in my life. The basic
purpose of this report is to develop an implementable action plan to reduce the effects of the
stressor. Moreover, the report will assist me in overcoming the real life stressor of my lifecycle.
Primary Stressor
I am dealing with a primary stressor of ‘Poor Time Management’ in my life. It is the
result of my poor skill in managing my time with the important activities. Because of this
stressor, I have been facing many issues including lower academic performance, poor punctuality
and mental stress of lack of energy, impatience and hypertension.
I am a college student of College name and a part time employer in name of the café you
are familiar with cafeteria. I cannot drop out from my job, as it is an important means of meeting
my finance. Because of my poor management, I had made a delay in preparing my previous year
assignment. It was a decent assignment but because of the delay in submission, I have received a
poor grade from my tutor.
Rationale
I am facing a major issue with the above stressor because despite being a college student,
I am also engaged in a part time job. In order to complete both the activities, I feel difficulty in
timely completing the task allocated in both the college and job requirement. I have a busy
schedule as I am attending the college in the morning until College ending time. Further, major
problem associated with my job is that it has fluctuating working hours with six days working.
As per the daily schedule, I have to work minimum for five flexible hours as a part time worker.
Because of the floating working hours, I feel struggle in allocating my time to the other
necessary task. Moreover, these two major activities almost took my whole day leaving me with
mere time to complete other important activities resulting in stress, delay works and pending
deliveries.

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Goal
In order to achieve Time management, I would timely complete my future delivery
of the project name of the project by 4th week of July 2019, without dropping out my job.
S – It is specific goal as it deals with completion of project NAME OF THE PROJECT
M – It is measurable as project is prepared as per the given word count.
A - It is attainable, as I have done similar projects in the past also.
R – It is relevant, as it will assist me gaining better grades and achieving Time management.
T - It is time bound, as it has to be achieved by 4th week of July (MacLeod, 2012).
Benefits
1. On achieving the set goal, it will benefit me to attain a better grade from my tutor for
timely submission of future project.
2. It will provide me with an insight of time management without adding stress to my
health.
Action steps
1. 15/7/19
By July 20, 2019, I will collect all my previous year academic results from the college.
These include the poor grades that I have received since last year. After gathering the entire
required academic document, I will mail the same including my concern of ‘fix job hours’ to the
employee help center. After electronically transmitting the message to the help center, I will wait
for their response. It includes the technique of Prioritizing as I have given priority to ‘fix job
hours’ (Kottler & Chen, 2011).
Reward: Receiving support from the help center to solve my job concern is itself a
reward. Moreover, it will make me feel mature enough to demonstrate my problems clearly to
the third person.
2. 20/7/199

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By July 20, 2019, I will try to convince the ‘Employee help center’ to fix my working
hours in their cafeteria. I will convince the concern department by sharing an overview of the
problems that I have been facing because of their fluctuating working hours. Moreover, I will ask
for their support, as being a fluctuating worker is hard as it is directly affecting the health, adding
stress and poor punctuality to the other activities. I analyzed that the above two actions will help
me in retaining fix working hours that will ultimately help me in completing the goal mentioned
above. It includes the technique of ‘Organizing work’ as I have tried to organize my job timing
(Bly, 2010).
Reward: On convincing the Employee help center to fix working hours, I will reward
myself with a new notepad.
3. 25/7/19
By July 25, 2019, I will make a schedule for my daily routine. I will allot a fix time for
my academics to improve my performance. After completing the first two stages of my goal, I
will begin with the key phase of my set goal. I will initiate the research for the future project that
has to be submitted in August. It includes the technique of break down ‘Big task’. I have
successfully divided the goal of time management (Scott, 2018).
Reward: On making the daily routine and completing with the research of the project, it
will enhance my morale.
4. 30/7/19
By July 30, 2019, I will apply all the research and findings of the project in writing. I will
pre-prepare the project to avoid any late submission. Moreover, I will stick to my time schedule
to develop a quality of time management within myself. It includes the technique of ‘Work from
calendar’ I have applied the same to this action by completing the research work within the time
limit (Hack, 2019).
Reward: After achieving the goal of timely project submission without dropping my job,
I will learn a new skill of time management.

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Barriers
Two major Barriers that my act as hindrance for me in achieving my set goal are:
1. Un supportive staff of employee help center
2. Poor health
Solution
1. In order to solve the barrier of unsupportive staff, I will raise my concern of ‘fix job
hours’ to the top hierarchy. Moreover, I will promise them delivering a better work
performance in future.
2. To overcome the second barriers of poor health, I will opt for nutritious food and
meditation in free timings, as it will act as an aid to for my health.

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Bibliography
Bly, R. W. (2010). Make Every Second Count: Time Management Tips and Techniques for More
Success with Less Stress. Red Wheel/Weiser.
Hack, S. (2019). Five Time Management Techniques to Reduce Stress. Retrieved July 15, 2019,
from http://www.stresshack.com/time-management-techniques.html
Kottler, J. A., & Chen, D. D. (2011). Stress Management and Prevention: Applications to
Everyday Life. Abingdon: Routledge.
MacLeod, L. (2012). Making SMART goals smarter. Physician executive, 38(2), 68-72.
Scott, E. (2018). 6 Ways Find More Time In A Busy Schedule. Retrieved July 15, 2019, from
https://www.verywellmind.com/how-to-find-more-time-in-a-busy-schedule-
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