Develop a Personal Stress Management Plan by taking into consideration the following Steps or parameters;

Step 1. What Do You Want to Accomplish?

• Goals
• Signs and Symptoms
• Stress and Stressors

Step 2. How Will Things Be Different or Better in Your Life?

• Outcome Visualization

Step 3. How Do You Know When You Have Achieved an Outcome?

• What Will You Accept as Proof?

Step 4. What Are Your Useful Resources?

• Finding a Resource State
• Coping Skills

Step 5. What Are Your Blocks to Success?

• Fear of Failure

Step 6. Devise an Action Plan

In summary,

• Your plan should be individualized to your situation and needs.
• Your plan should be practical for your lifestyle.
• Your plan should be multidimensional in that it incorporates activities that address your social life, emotional life, physical life, and spiritual life.
• Your plan should include activities to quiet your external environment as well as your internal environment.
• Your plan should include thoughtful activities and choices as well as activities to condition the mind and body to live relaxed.
• Your plan should be flexible to fit your lifestyle; you do not have to rigidly follow anyone's practice schedule but your own.
• Your plan should be patient and promote awareness of where you are on the readiness scale and allow for the time and motivation to progress without harsh self-criticism. In other words, know yourself and progress at your own rate.