Identifying Life's Stressors

Hi. My name is Alex Santiago, and I'm a student

at Buffalo State College, and today we're going to talk

about identifying life stressors.

So let's take a minute to reflect and make a

list of things in your life that make you feel

stressed. Perfect.

Now that we have a few things down, we can

put those to the side.

Where are going Thio go into what stresses so stresses

our body's reaction to a challenge or demand, and that

could make you feel anxious or overwhelmed.

And stressors are factors that cause us to feel stressed.

And there's two stressors, external and internal.

Some examples of external stressors are money issues.

Work relationships are unexpected life changes.

Some internal stressors are negative self talk on realistic expectations

of yourself or goals that you set and an all

or nothing attitude.

So let's list some things that make us feel stressed

out. Here's a few examples listed that make us feel

stressed. Relationships, health status, social media, school money, which is

a big one.

That's what we'll be talking about work.

Another one could be nutrition.

So we're going to go into that Also, we're actually

gonna talk about self sabotage as well.

So self sabotage is when we actively prevent ourselves from

reaching our goals or full potential.

And some self sabotaging behaviors could be avoiding physical activity.

Because you're stressed.

If your stress you might over or under eat or

comfort eat procrastination is one of them which is putting

off things until the last minute.

Spending money after a stressful day or event in your

life. So maybe you are tied on money.

But you had a really hard day at work, so

you just go and you shop to make you feel

better and then last, not least negative self talk.

So now that we've identified some factors in our life

that can stress us out and self sabotaging behaviors that

we may experience, let's go into changing our mindset.

So to change our mindset, we have to start with

making positive changes in our life.

So recognizing those self sabotaging behaviors will help us identify

that and grow from that, changing your pattern of behavior

as well.

So if you're procrastinating constantly, maybe setting a goal to

do things a little bit earlier, or if you realize

that you are doing a lot of negative self talk.

Realize when you're doing that negative self talk and put

in some positive self talk instead.

So that's changing our pattern of behavior to change our

mindset and setting realistic goals.

So budgeting weekly for groceries and other expenses, bringing food

and snacks with you if you know you'll be gone

for a long period of time and pack food to

take thio school or work.

So we're talking about budgeting and meal prepping because money

is a huge dresser in people's lives, and so is

food. So being prepared in these ways can help us

overcome these life stressors.

So a little bit of tips on meal prepping.

If you haven't meal prep before you can keep the

recipes simple.

They don't have to be anything crazy or elaborate.

You can make recipes that you like and enjoy eating.

Also trying to eat protein at each meal so you

can have fish, beef, poultry.

This could be frozen or fresh.

Both are great options.

Can chicken or tuna, which are also great options and

a little bit, um, more cost effective beans are another

one, which will be, um, touching on that in a

little while and eggs.

Also, nutritious food is affordable to frozen canned fruits and

vegetables. Air Justus.

Good as fresh.

So if you don't really like fresh fruits, you'd rather

do canned.

That's totally okay.

So now that we've talked about some meal prepping tips,

let's talk about budgeting.

So budgeting might be like a big word.

Not a lot of people like budgeting, but let's think

about it as a plan.

So you're going to set money aside each week for

emergencies, groceries, bills and all other expenses.

So let's shopping, entertainment.

Maybe you want to put some money into savings or

you're traveling so you can put some money aside for

that. But being prepared with a budget will help you

plan ahead, and it will help you not be so

stressed about money each week.

So since you know what is expected and how much

money you have for that week and planning ahead, this

will help reduce some stress you're experiencing in your day

to day life.

It will help you be prepared for the day or

the week of head of you and help you prioritize

important tasks in your life.

So when we talked about that self sabotaging behavior with

procrastination. Planning ahead will help you procrastinate a little bit

less if you know what's coming up for that week

and you can get it done.

Um, before it's dio and planning ahead helps with budgeting

for your groceries, bills and other expenses.

So you know what to expect money wise.

So if you're yeah, you know, not prepared with money

and you're you're stressed out.

You just go and get fast food and then you

realize that you just spent that money that you needed

for bills, planning ahead.

Budgeting and meal prepping will help solve all of that.

Those stressors there.

All right, so now that we've talked about changing our

mindset, we've discussed budgeting Planning ahead, meal prepping.

I'm now going to share a nutritious recipe with you.

This is a black being keen was salad, and it's

loaded with protein, fiber and vegetables.

So in this recipe here, I only have, um, a

yellow pepper.

But you can add any color pepper you like.

You can add some cucumbers any other you know, vegetable

that you wanna add in this perfectly fine, and this

can actually be served hot or cold.

So this meal is great for on the go or

dinner for the week because you can eat a cold

or you can reheat it up for dinner.

It's nutritious and easy to make, and if you never

had Kenya before, it's actually located in the same Islas

rice. And if you're you know, a bit nervous about

trying something new, you can always make this recipe with

Rice. And I got all of these ingredients in the

video from tops, and it cost me $12.

So I'll show you this quick video of the Black

Bean Kenya recipe.

Okay, so that was the black being Cuban recipe.

I just used keen wah campaigns.

I used canned corn, and I used a fresh yellow

pepper to make this recipe.

Total took the chemo.

It's about 15 minutes.

Total prep time.

30 minutes or less, so it's really quick and easy.

The serving on here It makes four servings, so you

can take that for lunch or have it for dinner.

So overall, today we talked about, um, factors that make

you feel stressed.

You listed some down at the beginning so you can

always look back.

See, identify what makes you feel stressed.

What triggers that stress in your life?

We talked about South sabotaging habit so you can also

go back, reflect, see what some of those self sabotaging

behaviors are, and then waste to be prepared and plan

ahead. So being prepared, moneywise, being prepared, food wise and

being prepared in general will help alleviate some of that

stress. And then there's an easy recipe video at the

end that you can follow and make at home.

Thanks for listening.

Identifying Life's Stressors

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