Helping clients enhance their lives through organization, elimination of excess, and personal and professional goal achievement.
If you have experienced a significant decrease in or elimination of your employment and are freaking out about how or if you can pay the bills, I’d like to offer some tips. Times might be tough, but there are steps you can take now to improve the situation. There are things you can control and ways that you can move to a more stable financial position.
Have you finally accepted that your kids will likely be doing a lot of virtual learning for the foreseeable future? It looks like virtual learning, at least part time, will be here to stay.
While a lot of parents muddled through the first round of at-home school when things shut down in March, now might be a good time to set up an on-purpose learning station in your home.
As a productivity and time management consultant, I’ve been helping my clients get a better handle on the new work-from-home reality that doesn’t have a known end-date. If you’re one of the ones who are struggling and feeling like there’s something wrong with you for not adapting well, know that you are not alone.
We’re 7 weeks into the stay-at-home order in my state. In my last blog I talked about being ok with not getting stuff done during this difficult time.
Now, for a lot of people the fog seems to finally be lifting. Maybe it’s the sporadic, sunny spring weather here in New England that’s helping us feel ready to move forward in this new reality.
Here in the United States, most of us have been ordered to stay at home for the past 6ish weeks. While everyone is experiencing the COVID-19 pandemic crisis in their own way, I’ve noticed there are a lot of similarities in the ways many of us are feeling.
My conversations with a lot of colleagues, friends, and clients have shown that many of us spent the first few weeks in a sort of denial and fog. I think we had a hope that this was all very temporary and that things would get back to “normal” soon enough.
Feeling that nothing can be done until perfect is achieved or a perfect outcome can be assured is an awfully heavy burden the perfectionist takes on. It can be completely paralyzing and incredibly stressful.
