Navigating Stress Your Path to Balance©RevolutionPrep-2023

Navigating Stress: Your Path to Balance Prioritize and manage your to-dos with our stress management activity pack!

Instructions: List Your Stressors: Write down all the activities, subjects, and commitments that are currently part of your life, including school, extracurriculars, family responsibilities, and any other stressors in the box below.

School Ex. Chapter 3 Math Test (9)

Extracurriculars

Family Responsibilities

Other

Ex. Prepare for upcoming debate with debate team (7)

Ex. Bake cake for grandpa’s 80th birthday party (4)

Ex. House sit for the neighbors (1)

Navigating Stress: Your Path to Balance. Prioritize and manage your to-dos with our stress management activity pack!

Rate Your Stress: Next to each item in the box on the previous page, rate your stress level on a scale of 1 (minimal stress) to 10 (extreme stress).

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Prioritize in the Matrix: Read through each of your stressors and consider how urgent (time-sensitive) and important (value or impact) each item is to you. Then, place each item in the appropriate quadrant of the Priority Matrix below.

Urgent and Important Ex. Chapter 3 Math Test

Urgent but Not Important Ex. House sit for the neighbors

Important but not Urgent Ex. Bake grandpa’s birthday cake Ex. Prepare for upcoming debate with the debate team

Neither Urgent nor Important

Navigating Stress: Your Path to Balance Prioritize and manage your to-dos with our stress management activity pack!

Stop and reflect: On a scale from 1-10, how stressed did you feel before prioritizing your activities?

On a scale from 1-10, how stressed do you feel after prioritizing your activities?

Did you find organizing your activities by how urgent and important they are to be helpful?

Why/why not?

How might you build this activity into your weekly/monthly routine?