Curing the stress hangover
Oh, hi friends!
If you wake up with a hangover, you don’t immediately repeat your behavior from the night before (or, well, you shouldn’t!).
You sip Gatorade, eat comfort food, and stay away from bright lights and loud noises.
You make tiny choices — which feel, in the moment, monumental — in the effort to feel like yourself again.
Maybe this advice can be applied to any “off” work day.
No careening off the tracks. Tiny choices instead.
Clicking the “x” on open tabs.
Taking 12 minutes to prepare for your meeting.
Stepping away from your desk to eat lunch.
Not jumping to conclusions.
Not scrolling Twitter.
Not worrying about 5pm or 10pm, but rather the minute you’re in right now.
Tiny choices!
“Everyone is adapting—and the way to ensure employees' happiness in the long-term is to recognize that work should ideally be a place not to drain our limited energy, but to sustain it.”
I loved applying advice from Do It For Yourself to the workplace in my latest story for From Day One. Here it is: How to Give Your Employees an Energy Boost. (Shoutout to Steve Koepp, my favorite kind of editor, who understands the story his writers are best suited to tell, then helps them tell it better!!)
Ya Got Trouble
Ya got trouble, my friends, right down in River City.
Here’s five minutes of fast-talking, fleet-footed music from The Music Man (which I watched last night). Maybe it’ll make you smile.
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Thanks, as always, for reading.
Love, Kara