Stick with your routine
If there’s one thing I have learnt from these past weeks as well as from working from home in general, is the importance of having a routine and sticking to it. I am obviously lucky enough to be working from home, so not much has changed for me. But if you are used to working in an office, this change of working from home might be more difficult. I think it’s really good to try and stick to some kind of a ‘normal’ kind of workday routine throughout the week. Keep your weekends for whatever you want to do or not do. Sleep in until 1 during the weekends, but ensuring you have that scheduled routine throughout the week will give you a bit more stability. Not only do I feel like it helps you be productive, I think sticking to your routine also helps you feel less anxious. You know what to expect when you tick off your morning routine and your work routine. Structure is really good if your mind is not really there, so one of the first things I always try to do when I am feeling anxious or overwhelmed is to bring back my structure in life.Find distractions
Obviously there is a lot of news pushed onto our social feeds, phones and TV’s. While it’s great to have the news available for you to consume at every hour of the day, it can also fuel anxious or overwhelmed thoughts. It can make you start to overthink and overanalyse every single thing, which only makes the anxiety worse. It’s why I stopped watching the news and checking my news apps every single hour. I have tried to find distractions instead. At the moment I find that if I am checking my phone I am most likely to open Instagram, Pinterest or TikTok for some entertainment. If I finish my workday and am feeling a bit overwhelmed by the news, I would actually go to turn on Netflix or any other streaming service on instead. I find that watching films and series on there really helps me bring some light back into my day. I still try to not binge on a series in an entire evening so usually turn off at around 10 and then read a book for another hour before actually falling asleep.A distraction I have found quite interesting to do is actually cleaning and getting lots of chores done. A few weeks ago I told you I am actually working on redoing another room in my parents house to transform it into my ‘office/blogging space’. My dad and I have found lots of distraction in painting that room, well mostly my dad I must say. But I have found that clearing out the stuff in that room has also really helped me clear my head a bit.
Contact your friends
One of the things I am struggling most with at the moment is not seeing my friends. I honestly could not have imagined how hard I am finding it not being able to see my friends. I am quite the introvert, but love to hang out with the close knit of people I have built around me. I find that calling them like that or on FaceTime them really helps me get through my days too. Just a little catch up on what we have been up to, how we are holding on. Having a little catch up with some wine in the evenings sometimes too. It’s just one of those things that gives me a bit of a feeling of normality in this all.If you are however also like me and are scared to ask your friends if it’s OK to FaceTime them, then try to send them a little text WhatsApp message. My cousin and I used to see each other pretty much every Friday and we have not been able to do so since February. It was hard as we both miss not seeing each other. So we had a little catch up on FaceTime after she told me to get off my high horse and just give into admitting I miss her. It really helped me though, as we both got to talk. It was a great distraction for me, but it was just nice in general to get to speak with her.
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