Work From Home But Rework Your Life

Work-life balance is a skillful art. Now that we are doing it sitting at home itself, it calls for more focus. Work with your peers as a team to determine the best frequency and purpose of meetings to set everyone up for success.

- Dolly Neena

Yes, it is harder than it looks. Seeing and hearing very unpleasant news constantly for more than a year now, and living in uncertainty wondering when all this will end. Burnout has worsened in 2021. Even though we talk about the lockdown and being homebound, the responsibilities have only increased I feel. You need to work from home, manage the household, find time to go out for the necessities, take care of the children and get involved in their studies as well; you really don’t get your me-time which you used to when your kids were at school.

Above all, the stress that the pandemic has inflicted on you on all fronts, i.e, financially, physically, socially and emotionally, is unprecedented. Have our thoughts and conversations taken a negative turn? We have even started hoping for our status to be “negative”, well, at least on Covid tests. Last year, around this time we freaked out and regaining the sense of control is paramount. If this pandemic is draining you out of positivity and energy or making you cynical, you definitely have some ways to stop it which we will discuss later on the page.