Ten Ways to Cope When Work Gets Overwhelming
— reported by HispanicAd.com
T.S. Eliot may have believed April the cruelest month, but for American workers, February and March are right there with them. The weather is bone chilling, holiday festivities are a memory, and spring is still months away. Add the emotional challenges of the dreary season to the time-crunched, overbooked, technology-fueled frenzy that our work lives have become and it’s no wonder so many of us are on the verge of that 21st century malady . . . burnout.
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Some suggestions they give on how to deal:
- Start your day with powerful high-energy music.
- Set aside blocks of time to complete various tasks.
- Make “Fix it, then forget it” your mistake mantra.
- Get an accountability partner to help you stay focused.
- Use “comic memos” to ease anxiety at work.
- Take a non-working lunch now and then–with others or by yourself.
- Take a power nap.
- Walk it off . . . exercise!
- Take a vacation. Really!
- Practice saying NO.
