This is a blog post for the obscure subset of people who sometimes feel stressed out, which according to statistics is actually most of you.
Turns out stress is incredibly common. Holy crap, right? Who knew? According to the American Psychological Association, millennials tend to report the highest stress levels, but baby boomers also report stress levels that are higher than they consider healthy. On average, women report higher stress levels than men. The number-one cause of stress in the U.S. is—you guessed it—job pressure. So how can we do battle with this giant, ever-present stress beast? Here are a couple of hot tips:
1. Do some breathing techniques. Breathe in for four counts, hold it for seven counts, and breathe out for eight. Science says this works.
2. Go for a walk, a run, or a bike ride. Exercise gives you endorphins. Endorphins make people happy.
3. Talk to somebody.
4. Talk to somebody while you’re walking. Presumably this will relieve your stress twice as fast.
5. Read a good book.
6. Listen to your jams. Studies say music is an important stress-relieving tool and has been since the dawn of time.
7. Make a to-do list. Put some easy things on it so that you can check them off. Don’t you feel better already?
8. Let it out. Never underestimate the power of just straight-up yelling into a perfectly good pillow.
9. Be one with nature. Go for a hike and commune with the trees.
10. Work with us. Arguably the most stressful thing ever is having to do things, so why not pawn that burden off on somebody else? Maybe you’ve got an event that needs planning. Maybe there are logistics involved that you don’t have the time or the real estate in your brain to keep track of. Maybe your brand just isn’t hitting the mark with this specific demographic. That’s where we come in. Gemba is a full-service experiential agency—we’ve got the dedication, the production power, and the creative chops to put your brand on the experiential map. Check out exactly what we do and how we do it, then give us a holler so we can talk solutions.