Nothing Comes Without a Price

Stress is a part of life whether anyone likes it or not. It can be caused by a variety of factors including when someone drives below the speed limit when you're in a rush, worrying about paying bills, and family deaths. There’s nothing we can do to prevent some of the stressors that we face everyday but there are techniques that we can use to lessen the effects and overcome and cope with the stressors at hand. Being a sophomore in college, I face daily stressors that range from big to small, but throughout my years I've established coping strategies to conquer my problems and lift my spirits.

Stress is defined as a person’s response to events that are threatening or challenging. For me, stress includes finding time to do everything I want; making time for homework and studying, squeezing in time to workout and to make it to tennis practice, and still have down time to relax and hang out with my friends. Most of my stress derives from personal stressors, major life events that have immediate negative consequences that generally fade with time, and background stressors, everyday annoyances that cause minor irritations but can develop into long-term ill effects if they continue or are combined with other stressful events. I have luckily never had to deal with a major personal stressor that directly impacted me such as a death or divorce. I however, have to deal with a continuing stressor in my life that most people never have to deal with, but I have fortunately been able to cope with it despite it never going away.

The stressor that I am talking about here is my stuttering. Diagnosed as a child, it is something that is never going to go away. I have taken speech lessons and from those I have developed cues and techniques to help ...

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...iness, a three component personality trait that involves commitment, challenge, and control. With hardiness, individuals approach stress optimistically and take direct action to learn about and deal with stressors, and therefore make stressful events into less threatening ones.

Stress is your response to events that you see as threatening or challenging. In my life I deal with stress one way or another every counting day, but I’ve developed coping strategies to lessen my stress levels. The main strategy that I employ that I find to be the most beneficial is time management, scheduling, and making sure I can do things I enjoy. Being able to stay on top of what needed to get done and setting priorities enabled me to do everything I needed, from homework, to practice and everything in between, and I could still manage to find time everyday to make moments for myself.