Stressssssssss mngmnt

I'm a kinesthetic learner. As this semester is almost ending, there are a lot of projects, major essays, and tests coming from this week. I start to get lazy and relaxed because the summer vacation is coming up soon but I'm also stressed that there are so many works to finish before the semester ends. It is important to manage my stress and finish well with the last important projects, essays, and tests. For this week's strategy, stress management, I decided to use Stress Diagram and Five-Minute Escape to manage my stress. There is are two projects and a research paper due next Monday from IST 195, CLS 105, and ENL 213.

First of all, I listed the sources of stress for Stress Diagram strategy.

I found seven major sources of my stress and I drew a pie diagram to represent the relative amount of stress it is in my life. As I expected, I drew the exams, projects and essays as the biggest concern and the stress in my life, my school works. Those are the things that I cannot easily control or get rid of so I should try to get rid of other things that are stressful. For the school work, I should start doing my essays and projects earlier so I don't have to finish them all the night before the due dates because I might do badly if I finish them all at once. It will not only be stressful but also affect my grades. It is the worst choice to finish them at once.

For the second strategy, I tried Five-Minute Escape to relieve my stress in a very little time.
I followed the 8 directions that was expected to make me feel rejuvenated except for a few directions that I did not understand.
I stretched with my eye closed. Some of them really helped as a stretching but others did not feel like anything. However, overall of this stretching strategy helped me to relax myself and refresh my brain and mind. Somehow, I could concentrate on my work better after trying this strategy, stretching.
Before I tried this, I used to smoke outside to refresh myself. Sometimes smoking does not work to refresh myself and to concentrate better. I should try this when smoking does not work well for me.

I hope these strategies helped me to end my semester with the grades that I wanted and expected.