How to Manage Your Stress and Time in the Modern Era

With the fast development of the society and the economy, more and more people start to realize how high the stress people are facing every day during their work. It is commonly recognized that stress is harmful to people, both physically and psychologically. And it may also reduce work efficiency, which could further create more pressure. At the same time, managing one’ time is becoming more and more difficult and challenging. How to manage stress and time then becomes an important skill that everyone should be acquired of.

Everyone is facing various unavoidable stresses every day. Even if it is almost impossible to completely eliminate the pressure, we still have to learn how to at least reduce it. One helpful suggestion is to realize that work, where most of the competition comes from, is not the whole of life. In nowadays society, it seems that almost everybody attaches too much importance to work. Of course work is important, but apart from that, there are still many great things in life. If we work to support our families, then it is equally important to spend some pleasant time with them. After all, it will be meaningless to keep yourself separated from your family members physically, even if you do support them financially. Another potential solution is to cultivate a hobby. Most people’s life is boring, repetitive and monotonous, which will lead to pressure for there are no new things at work. Thus, it is necessary to have a hobby, in which you can find your own pleasure. Reading a novel, for example, can make you live another people’s life. Through the books, you can travel to a country that you have never been to; you may have friends that you have never imagined of; or you may experience a job that you have always dreamed of but never have the chance to get. Listening to music can also be helpful. Through different types of music, you can experience different feelings that may not common in your own life.

As for how to manage one’s life, the most useful suggestion is to divide your tasks into different categories. You have to identify the extent of your tasks’ importance as well as urgency level. Time and energy should be first used on the most important and most urgent task in order to finish them with high quality. The next preferential group of tasks to finish are those that are either important or urgent. As for the neither important nor urgent ones, you should start to deal with them when all the other tasks are finished instead of spending too much time on them. In this way, one can manage his time rather efficiently.

Learning how to manage pressure or use one’s time efficiently is by no means an easy thing. However, in order to happily live a high-quality life, this is the challenge that everyone has to face.

范文第一段首先指出了压力的危害性和合理安排时间的重要性，第二段中，范文提出了两种应对压力的方 式：一是不要把工作当成生活的全部，二是培养自己的兴趣爱好，范文第三段则阐释了如何通过分析任务 的重要和紧急程度来合理安排时间。