6 tips to help you manage your day AND your anxiety when working from home

It's totally understandable that from time to time we get stuck on a worry spiral. However, getting stuck in fear and getting filled with anxious automatic thoughts is not helpful to our health and productivity.

We tackle this by being mindful of our present situation by understanding what is currently making our bodies anxious right now. After identifying the triggers then we can move on to reacting from being on auto-pilot to mindfully managing our response.

Sometimes we just need to keep our body moving and take action because when we do this it gives us a moment to feel good because we've achieved doing something wether it may be just replying to an acknowledgement email or exercising.

Choose a small and meaningful action that will help build your motivation to work and tackle bigger tasks moving forward.

If it feels impossible to finish a simple work task and you still can't get your mind to calm down, a non-work-related task can aid this feeling.

Cook hot pot, sing some songs, or doodle, after doing non-work-related tasks, be mindful of your situation and ask yourself how long can you continue until anxiety hits again. Is this specific activity able to get you in a task-tackling mood?

It doesn't mean to say to keep soothing yourself until you aren't able to do work anymore, but more so where you're able to soothe yourself well-enough to finish a task until you can't anymore.

Like all skills, it takes time to learn how to manage one's workdays anxiety. Just keep in mind to be compassionate towards yourself at all times and things will go well, eventually.