Working From Home

 

7 Ways To Reset And Reduce Stress While Working From Home

1.RESET your daily routine

The way you manage yourself has to do with your habits: your daily routines and how you usually react to unexpected events. You can train your mind and body to react in a certain way that is more productive and satisfying for you. Through time, the more you practice how to manage different situations, the better you become at it. Though it is not an easy task, it will get easier over time. 

Remember, it is all about your routine. Here are the five habits that you want to incorporate in your daily life to RESET, improve performance and have more joy at work.

• Relax: calm your mind breathing deeply
• Enjoy: see the bright side in everything
• Simplify: only keep what you need
• Exercise: turn thoughts into actions
• Thank: appreciate what you receive

2. Relax: calm your mind breathing deeply

Stress activates the body fly or fight response, so blood pressure and heart rate go up. Hormones like epinephrine and cortisol are released into our bloodstream. In the short term, focus memory and creativity are improved. However, once stress exceeds a certain threshold, then your performance decreases. If you have to speak in public, you are out of breath. If you have to make a quick decision, your heart rate is too high to let you think clearly; you are just trying to escape. You are so stressed that you cannot even realize you are under stress, so you cannot think of how to overcome this

3. Enjoy: see the bright side in everything and celebrate it

Once you have your body under control, you are better capable of choosing your thoughts. They can be positive or negative. Employees turn to negative thinking when they feel fear of an unexpected outcome, especially in remote work. As you don't get to see your leader or teammates face-to-face, remote work can undermine your self-confidence and your sense of community. You may feel left out if your boss doesn't answer an email or if you were not invited to a meeting. In your mind, you start looking for the reasons why, which makes you feel threatened and lonely.

4.Simplify: only keep what you need

As part of the counterproductive thinking, you probably think you don't have time to breathe, relax or enjoy. So how do you make up for more time? You make your work life more simple. Check your desk, your wallet, your purse, your mailbox! How many things do you see that you don't need? How many of them bother you or distract you? How many of them keep you busy in exchange for nothing gratifying?

5.Exercise: turn thoughts into actions

The fourth habit is about turning thoughts into actions. Sometimes it is hard for us to manage our thoughts, they just come and go, even when we are trying to breathe and focus. Go out and engage in an activity that calms you such as walking, running, or cooking. Take advantage of your working from home experience while it lasts!

6. Thank: appreciate what you receive

Stress is the reaction people have to excessive demands placed upon them. Sometimes, you are not sure if you can cope with the work or fear the outcome. Whatever you are working on, make sure you and your team have a routine to review the project at various milestones to avoid surprises at the due date. Share both the bad news and the good news, but especially ask for help if you need it, and thank them for the support you received. No matter if you are the leader or a team member, thank your team for the effort in public

7.Establish a Routine

Follow every day the same night routine. Always at the same time, to enhance the sense of ritual and establish a habit. If you practice it every day, it will be easier over time, so you will be able to enjoy the routine and your other tasks to accomplish. If you are not enjoying, go back to square 1!