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Where Can We Take Back Control?

4/17/2020

 
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Where Can We Take Back Control? Reflections from Coach LJ Nieulant

In these tumultuous times it may seem that your life is out of control. Whether you are without a job, furloughed or working, a lot of things came to a halt very abruptly. Work and life have changed; routines and schedules changed. We need to adapt.
 
For my wife, three children, and me, we had to adjust to a new routine which we changed several times before we found a schedule and routine that benefits us all. This is where you can take back control in your life: decide what to do and what to avoid or leave for what it is. I am not able to develop a cure for the virus; I am not a scientist. I am able though to be of help and service to others in my community.
 
Please take a moment to reflect on your current life. How are you doing, how is your family doing, and how are your friends and neighbours doing? Journal about your situation and see where you might need to make adjustments. What is it that you can do to regain some control in your life? Build a new routine; take it one step at a time. Adjust as necessary. Identify adaptations that benefit you and your loved ones.
 
You might want to add a new activity to your routine. For instance, my wife and I walk our dog at the end of the day for an hour to discuss the day’s events. It benefits us although our dog thinks it is a little too much to be walked for the 7th time.
 
An addition to your routine could be to reflect on your career so far. What did it bring and what are you missing in your career? Would you like to take a different route in the future? This may be a good time to prepare for that journey. Think about the things that brought you joy and what you would like to continue. What activities wore you out, which ones do you want to get rid of? Make a list of your Strengths, which ones bring a smile to your face? Make an inventory of your weaknesses and leave those for what they are. They are not working for you or with you so maybe take this opportunity to throw them out of the window and only focus on your Strengths.

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 - Coach LJ Nieulant 
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Tips for WFH when your partner is also WFH

4/9/2020

 
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WFH sounds a lot like WTF doesn’t it?

My sister-in-law, who is currently homeschooling her grandchildren (!), posted this question on Facebook this morning: "Who’s great idea was it to change math!!??" Sandy gets it. Humor is how we are going to adapt to the new how-could-this-possibly-be normal. 

A friend recently sent me some advice about working from home (WFH) with your partner or spouse. She suggested we each create an imaginary officemate upon whom we blame the annoying things our partner or spouse does, as in: “Louise left her lunch dishes on the coffee table again...” My husband John, who teaches online university classes and yoga from two of the rooms in our tiny condo, has taken this imaginary-friend advice to heart and has claimed Vermont Governor Phil Scott as his imaginary friend. He’s got the blaming thing turned around a bit though, as we both appreciate what our governor has done for Vermont. In John’s case, his imaginary friend blames him for the annoying things. 

Humor has been my greatest companion in this quarantine. Second and third on my WFH survival list are music and earplugs. These two might seem incongruent together, but they are not. 

William Congreve was right when he wrote that music has charms to soothe a savage breast - even one in quarantine. Music also has charms that uplift. For soothing, I tend to go for baroque, for uplift, I’ve taken Rising Appalachia - Resilient as my new anthem. Check it out:

​Earplugs, at the other end of the spectrum, are high on my WFH list as they afford me the audio solitude that is essential to my work as a writer. Earplugs work well in other professions, too. 

What are your top three WFH survival tips? Share them here. You’ll find, as I have just done, that helping others is really the best way we will get through this. ​

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