<p>Instead, Ms. Schuman has started a gratitude journal and is working on practicing acceptance. "You're supposed to be inventing something or coming up with the next big business idea or doing something great that's going to be worthy of time spent at home," she said. "I'm trying to be more OK with just being." </p>

The internet wants you to believe you aren't doing enough with all that "extra time" you have now. But staying inside and attending to basic needs is plenty. When Dave Kyu, 34, an arts administrator in Philadelphia, realized that he would be working from home for the foreseeable future, he began to fantasize about the projects he could now complete around the house.

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