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Taking care of your mental health is becoming more and more a necessity and more common nowadays. A lot of us don’t know how to properly take care of our mental health
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So here’s a guide on how to do so in the most beneficial way possible.
Practice gratitude: Keep a journal with you so you can write down something you’re grateful for every day.
Connect with friends and family. Make time for the people you care about.
Go outside. Try to get at least 30 minutes of sunlight each day to improve your mood and increase energy.
Meditate. Set aside a few minutes each day to center yourself.
Get a good night’s sleep. Try fixating your sleep schedule, to get more sleep.
Improve your physical wellness. Try to exercise at least a few times per week and eat healthier.
Try out different ways of coping with stress. Find something that works for you, such as going for a walk, yoga, deep breathing, listening to music, etc.
Do something kind. Making someone else happy will make you feel happy, too.
Make time for yourself. Set aside time each day to be alone and recharge.
Do something you enjoy. Practice a hobby, watch a TV show you like, read a book, etc.
Working from home created a new chaotic household disaster. Moving your office, files, laptop, and your work stuff to your home has become a tricky business.
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But no problem has no solution at Ja’s Lifestyle! We had the honor of re-interviewing Jessica Abou Jaoude and get some ideas and a simple focus-list to turn your home into a more suitable office, that ensures your well-being, and helps you get your work done.
Stability
Stability comes first in this list as to its big importance in this process. Having a constant “Stable” place in your house that you can use all the time as your office, helps you get your work done faster, more efficiently, and so much easier.
Stay away from dining tables, the bedroom, and a very busy living room. Any place that can trigger unwanted distractions even falling asleep, should be avoided as much as possible. A closed balcony can do the work. It is spacious, bright, and isolated.
Location
After deciding on the area of your new home office, it’s important to filter your choices based on 2 important things: A window in front of the desk, and behind us a wall and not another room.
Having a window right in front of your desk will help get the sunlight directly into the room, which will increase the room’s brightness to protect your eye vision. If there’s no window, choose a room with a painting in front of your desk. It is important to have a painting or a view in front of you, so you can look away and shift your focus to something natural other than your screen.
Ambiance
Choose an ambiance for your new home office that suits your style, but is comforting and professional at the same time. Who said you can’t be comfortable in your office while being focus and dedicated to finishes these files.
A coloring range can vary between white, light grey. oak. Some color that is light and sight comforting. Light colors make you feel in a wider space too, which can boost your motivation.
Decoration
For decoration, you need to keep it simple as an office, but fuller as a house. You can add some plants, flowers, a piece of art hanging, or for example, dispose of a collection that you own of your interest. It is highly recommended to add a cactus next to your laptop, it can absorb the toxic radiations. The plants should be limited to oxygen providers ones.
Organize
Because it is your current everyday office, you need to keep everything organized and unmovable from the desk. For example, those files, these pens, papers, anything that you work constantly with, should always and never leave the desk. Plus you should buy yourself an office/desk chair it will help keep your posture straight.
Light
Light is important, the more light there is in a room, the more energy it will provide you. The room where your new office is located should always have access to an abundant source of light. Natural and artificial. During the day, the sun will do its work of lighting the room, but working at night requires lots and lots of light to keep the work environment healthy.
You’ll need general lighting, and task lighting. General light will do the sun’s work during the day, (ceiling lamp), and task light is the focused light you put on your desk for details and no shadow over your paper. And go for cool lights and not warm light. Cool light will keep your brain awake while working at night, while warm light have the tendency to make you sleepy.
Change is hard, especially when it’s a permanent change in your circle. Having a friend move away from you and headed to another part of the country is hard, painful, and full of unwanted change that can mess with your routine.
2020 has sure been a hard year on all of us, and many of us have nothing else except moving out, even migrating to a whole other country. Many of us can’t afford to leave so we’re here staying put, watching our friends and people leaving for good to another country.
This change/ detachment can be super draining and sad. But there’s always a place for growth, adaptation, and making it work. I mean if 2020 and quarantine taught us something new is that digital friendships are doable.
So here’s a guide on how to prepare for a friend’s departure without letting it be so hard on you:
Be as involved in the move as possible:
Even if it’s hard, it’s essential to help and support your friend’s moving process. It’s hard on both of you and, you need each other to cope with the change. So helping them pack, organizing and, the whole process of moving will help you get the “closure” you need.
Friends taking a break from packing
Before they go, create recordable memories:
The moving process doesn’t have to be a sad and emotional change. We remember the people we love by going down the memories lane. So, what better way than to start the moving process by creating new memories that you can save. Whenever we feel life is hard or that we miss them but can’t reach them we can watch those recordings.
Express your feelings with them
You may feel like you don’t want to talk about your feelings and emotions with them but, it is important to talk things through with them. They feel the same way but, you’ll work it out. You’ll find your way around and handle your friendship, long distant.
Talk about staying connected:
Technology this year was a blessing to keep all of our relationships going from a distance. Video Calls, text messages, and all social media platforms are such a blessing to be available at the tip of our hands.
Consider throwing a goodbye party
Throwing a goodbye party to your friend is the perfect fun goodbye. If you can’t throw a big party because of quarantine and the whole pandemic issue, a home gathering of you two, or even a small group of friends is a good idea!
Friends toasting with fresh juice at dinner table
Exchange thoughtful gifts
Small handmade gifts are super warm and emotional to give each other and remember each other with. a scent, a photo album, maybe a letter.
Remember distance is not a problem.
Being distant will not change your friendship status, if you are true friends, no matter how far you’ve grown apart you’ll always find your way back to each other. Maintaining a long-distance friendship is hard but, with a little more effort it’s possible.
Many of us are working from home, online in front of a screen for a long time. Everything changed with Covid, but with every change, our way of living should change too.
When exposed to long screen sessions, your eyes can dry out, and get more and more tired. It can be called a computer eye strain. It’s an uncomfortable feeling your eyes get all itchy and dizzy in the middle of your essay.
So here are some ways to prevent that while keeping your job/studies organized and always on time:
Routine eye exams:
Eye exams now and then come in handy when protecting your eyes from “computer eye strain”. So go ahead schedule that appointment AND get your eyes checked asap.
Proper light:
Eliminate exterior light by closing drapes, shades, or blinds. Reduce interior lighting by using fewer light bulbs or fluorescent tubes, or use lower intensity bulbs and tubes. Also, if possible, position your computer screen so windows are to the side, instead of in front or behind it.
Minimize Glare
Glare from light reflecting off walls and finished surfaces, as well as reflections on your computer screen also can cause computer eye strain. Consider installing an anti-glare screen on your display and, if possible, paint bright white walls a darker color with a matte finish.
Take small breaks:
I know life is busy, and work should be done by the end of the day and stuff, but your eyes are dying. Just try to take small breaks and close them off, or go to the kitchen to make yourself a sandwich while staring at the window, green plants, and resting your eyes. You can even meditate!
Increase blinking
Blinking your eyes is important because it helps your eye to clean anything on its surface. And it keeps it moist. And avoid drying out and falling into the trap of itching and non-comfort.
Consider computer glasses.
For your best comfort at your computer, you might benefit from having your eye doctor modify your eyeglasses prescription to create customized computer glasses. (if you wear glasses like me).
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