1. Stress & Work Life Balance
Manage it before it manages you

2. Bio
Lakisha Bealer is the founder of Agility
Paralegal Service, LLC. Agility offers paralegal
services to attorneys, CLE courses to attorneys
and paralegals, and a virtual tradeshow for
Legal professionals. Lakisha earned an
Associates, Bachelor’s, an MBA as a single
parent and working full-time.

3. Overview
1) Determining your stress triggers
2) Effective tools and resources for dealing
with stress
3) Using technology to reduce stress
4) Creating boundaries between personal and
professional relationships

4. What is stress?
Although, this seems to be an elementary
question understanding the true definition of
stress allows for understanding how stress
affects you individually.
According to The Institute of Heartmath
“Stress is the term used to describe the wear
and tear the body experiences in reaction to
everyday tensions and pressures”.

5. Common Stressors
Juggling
work/personal life
Lack of job
security
People issues
Workload

6. What are you’re stress triggers?
Stress triggers are those things that cause an
emotional imbalance and are different for
everyone

7. Stress Triggers

8. Stress Triggers

9. Stress Triggers

10. Stress Triggers

11. Picking up on stress cues
• As members of teams or partners in
relationships it is important to pick up on
others stress cues. This can help to create
cooperative working environments and
drama free personal and professional
relationships.

12. Picking up on stress cues
• Improves relationships with co-workers
• Avoids conflicts

13. The obvious signs
• Absenteeism
• Frequent tardiness
• Emotional outbursts
• Poor work performance
• Lack of focus
• Sleeplessness

14. The not so obvious signs &
Negative Coping Mechanisms
• Procrastination
• Social drinking
• Recreational drug use

15. Using technology to reduce stress
• emWave2 portable stress reliever
• What it is?
• What does it do?
• emWave PC desktop version
• What it is?
• What does it do?

16. Creating professional boundaries
• Believing that your doing your employer a
favor by not taking a vacation
• Taking business calls during time off
• Being the office superman or superwoman

17. Creating personal boundaries
• Never taking Me time
• Buying in to the Superparent myth
• Over scheduling personal events

18. Resource Links
• American Institute of Stress provides
referrals to various organizations
http://www.stress.org/services/
• The Institute of Heartmath provides various
resources for stress management and
overall well-being
http://www.heartmath.org/free-
services/solutions-for-stress/index-of-all-
solutions.html

19. Conclusion
Outside of all the tools and resources the best
way to eliminate stress is by understanding
what your stress triggers are and coming up
with your own method to manage it

20. Questions
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