Step 4- Repeat

How do I maintain the Life Rules I’ve set?
Follow your tips for coping with stress.

Make it official! Create an Action Plan. This simply involves making a physical list of the tasks you need to carry out to achieve an objective, in this case, a solid body of new behaviors when potentially stressful situations occur. This is different from the garden-variety “To Do” list, in that your action list focuses on the achievement of a single goal: to head off at the pass, potentially stress causing events, with prepared knowledge and a plan of action as to how you will intervene.
The value of an action plan is that it also functions as a work-in-progress, which can be updated, expanded, shortened and re-read to reinforce its contents.

Re-Evaluate Your Goals

Just as your action plan can be updated, so can your short and long-term goals. Short-term goals are generally those which can be accomplished in approximately one year; long-term goals may be carried out in 1 to 5 years.
An important point to remember is to include in your re-evaluations any new, or problematical stress issues that have or may still occur in these time frames. (That’s where the flexibility of your Action Plan comes in handy!)