Tips to manage your day and anxiety when working from home

Working from home can be wonderful, but when you’re anxious, it can be difficult to concentrate and stay on task. So, how do you stay accountable to yourself and get work done without driving yourself to exhaustion?

Morra Aarons-Mele from Ted shares her top 5 tips based on what she has learned from 15 years of managing her anxiety while also working from home:

1. Call off the mental fire drill that occurs whenever you get a Slack or email notification
2. Stop waiting to get permission to log off
3. When you get stuck in a worry spiral, ask: “What’s making me anxious right now?”
4. Follow it up by finding a super-achievable work task and doing it
5. If that seems impossible, pick a non-work task

Read more into her top tips by clicking on the link below.