Here are just a few of the tips for managing your time and balancing stress especially while working at home.
• Step away from the computer and the smart phone. This is a difficult one with twitter, blogs, pinterest and email just a click away. Take time to smell the roses versus taking a picture of them and uploading them to instagram – your senses will thank you.
• Focus on one thing at a time. It is quite freeing to rebel against multi-tasking, to let go of all those internet tabs and have only one thing open on your computer at a time, to just focus intently on the task (or person) at hand without any other distractions.
• Clean the house. When your environment is in order, you will feel less chaotic, even if its a "lick and a promise" to come back at a later date.
• Take time to reflect. Meditate. Write in an actual journal (again, away from the computer). Do this before anything else, right when you wake, before the daily email assaults and to-do’s pile up. Chart your own course for the day.
• Stop juggling so many balls. Create just a few goals for yourself a day, maybe even just one big one for the year. You’ll be more likely to achieve them this way.
• Stop holding yourself to such high expectations.
• Exercise. We all know it’s good for us, but how many of us actually do it enough?
• Evaluate your goals and make sure you’re still aware of why you are chasing them. Why are you pursuing your business? Why did you start it in the first place? Take stock of the things you’ve already achieved and make sure you’re not just moving to move.
• Empty your jar. A friend shared with me a philosophy on staying balanced based on the concept of a jar filled with water and rocks and it really resonated with me. The jar can be filled with some large rocks and lots of small rocks but too many and the water that is in the jar will overflow. The large rocks represent the things most important to you: family, health, whatever, the small rocks represent everything else. If you fill your jar with all small rocks there is no room for the larger more important rocks. And regardless of how you fill your jar, you need to periodically empty your jar to make room for new things to enter.
• Take the time to regenerate and allow for periods of stillness. Joni Mitchell is famous for taking breaks between albums and painting during these periods of rest. Here is what Feist has to say about the subject in regards to the timing between her own albums “ I read a National Geographic article about soil and modern farming,” she says. “The point is for food to grow, the point isn’t for it to grow all at once and never grow again. Soil does its job, but unless you let it rest it can’t regenerate its own minerals and do the same thing again. You just have to let it lay there under the sun, dry out, get rained on, and be still a little while.”
To paraphrase a famous quote, life is like a river and will always be moving, the key is to follow the current and not resist the flow.
• Focus on one thing at a time. It is quite freeing to rebel against multi-tasking, to let go of all those internet tabs and have only one thing open on your computer at a time, to just focus intently on the task (or person) at hand without any other distractions.
• Clean the house. When your environment is in order, you will feel less chaotic, even if its a "lick and a promise" to come back at a later date.
• Take time to reflect. Meditate. Write in an actual journal (again, away from the computer). Do this before anything else, right when you wake, before the daily email assaults and to-do’s pile up. Chart your own course for the day.
• Stop juggling so many balls. Create just a few goals for yourself a day, maybe even just one big one for the year. You’ll be more likely to achieve them this way.
• Stop holding yourself to such high expectations.
• Exercise. We all know it’s good for us, but how many of us actually do it enough?
• Evaluate your goals and make sure you’re still aware of why you are chasing them. Why are you pursuing your business? Why did you start it in the first place? Take stock of the things you’ve already achieved and make sure you’re not just moving to move.
• Empty your jar. A friend shared with me a philosophy on staying balanced based on the concept of a jar filled with water and rocks and it really resonated with me. The jar can be filled with some large rocks and lots of small rocks but too many and the water that is in the jar will overflow. The large rocks represent the things most important to you: family, health, whatever, the small rocks represent everything else. If you fill your jar with all small rocks there is no room for the larger more important rocks. And regardless of how you fill your jar, you need to periodically empty your jar to make room for new things to enter.
• Take the time to regenerate and allow for periods of stillness. Joni Mitchell is famous for taking breaks between albums and painting during these periods of rest. Here is what Feist has to say about the subject in regards to the timing between her own albums “ I read a National Geographic article about soil and modern farming,” she says. “The point is for food to grow, the point isn’t for it to grow all at once and never grow again. Soil does its job, but unless you let it rest it can’t regenerate its own minerals and do the same thing again. You just have to let it lay there under the sun, dry out, get rained on, and be still a little while.”
To paraphrase a famous quote, life is like a river and will always be moving, the key is to follow the current and not resist the flow.
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