With many of us now forced into spending nearly all of our time at home with our families or housemates, award-winning hypnotherapist and life coach Malminder Gill shares some of her top tips for keeping a calm mind and keeping relationships healthy while balancing work from home.
- Have your own workspace
A private and undisturbed workspace will help to minimise distractions. If you want to share ideas you can create a ‘communal working space’
- Share Your Calendar
This also ensures your privacy is respected and means you can take video calls in peace
- Have a routine
Maintain structure within your day and act like you are both in the office – have lunch together (if you can)
- Signal the end of your working day
Do something that signifies the end of your working day – this shift can help you to switch off mentally to spend time together in the evening
Tips for family or housemate happiness:
- Create a ‘family contract’
This can help with sharing roles, chores and everyone’s duties, parents can also split time of who will be looking after the children when the other is working
- Draft an activity schedule
This can include meals, work/school and leisure times for both parents and children. Organise fun activities such as movie nights or cooking together, this is a great way to maintain a positive mindset
- Keep moving
Whether it’s a fitness challenge for the whole family, a dance session or playing in the garden make sure everybody is staying active
- Document this experience, write a journal
This is a way for both adults and children to understand the thoughts and emotions that this extraordinary situation brings up.
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