5 ways to create boundaries between work and at home

Since the year 2021 begins, it seems to be a good time to think about the immense journey that we all have undertaken this year. Unpredictability, loss, personal growth, transformation, sadness, loneliness, authorization, confusion and perhaps devotion - it is likely that many of us have felt all the emotions over the past year. One thing that we may not have expected was that our work and our private life would be blurred; that the kitchen table would do overtime as a desk and dining table or that a "big day" would be to defy the supermarket ... If you have healed yourself from the routine, in an office environment or somewhere outside the house, to sudden sitting at home, it can look as if the transition had taken place in a kind of vertebral wind. It was not time to plan your new work area, planned breaks and lunch breaks or what you would wear now if you # wfh (one of the most popular new hashtags for "working from home" on social media). Many of my Yoga students and customers of Holistic Health told me this year that they tried to create boundaries between work and at home, work and leisure. Statistics even show that many of those who work from home now work more hours than before, and if we are honest, it is what we do yes wants to spend our lives with it.
If you have difficulty creating boundaries between work and at home, or if you are in a black hole with emails, it is time to take your time. It is time to settle some limits so that you can relax and relax and relax at home and bring your residence back to the sanctuary that it should be. Read on for 5 ways to get started:

1. Commute

It may sound strange, but no matter how much they loathed their previous path to work, it was actually a rather important part of creating a border between work and at home. Getting into the car, going outside or getting in the train to create a way of thinking. Either we put on our work or take it off when we return home. If you miss the pendulum traffic, work and at home blur an uninterrupted, monotonous spiral of not quite functioning and not completely dormant. The solution? Create your commuting traffic again! Even a brisk walk of 10 minutes outdoors in front of your online meetings in the morning may be enough to put them in a more focused state and take a walk, or even to another room for an online yoga course after you have ended your work a big difference to the feeling of being switched off.

2. Dress to Impress & Dress to de-stress

If you have worked in pajamas from home in the past few months, it is time that things change! The clothes we wear contains strong energy, and the energy can be easily imprinted. For example, if we wear a pajamas at 2 p.m., we don't feel as awake and awake as if we showered in the morning and have moved. Just as colors influence our mood (whereby blue, green and gray are soothing and red, orange and bright pink have a stimulating effect), the outfits we put together can also help change our way of thinking. (And yes, you have to change your whole outfit, not just the part that your employees can see zooming meetings ...) Since we are much less going today, why not put on the outfit with which you feel best during work? After work, slip into something comfortable and cozy to signal that it is time to relax.

3. Create a room that works for you

A busy kitchen with family members who cook, clean and operate loud washing machines may not be the ideal place to do their best work. Even if this has to be arranged a little new, it is important to create a room at home that is devoted to work. Just as it is recommended to use your bed only for sleeping if you want to improve your sleep, try to use part of your house (even if it is a certain chair) to work, and nothing else. If you enter this room or sit on the chair, change your state of mind. If you leave it, you will feel that you have just left the work.

4. Plan your social time

Working from home means that couples and families spend much more time together, but not really much time together. Since there is nowhere to go and there is little to plan, in 2020 it may have been a test time for some relationships and has spent a time quantity If you get to know the annoying habits of the other, you probably found out whether he is now really the right one for you. If you are still strong at this point, you can probably say with certainty that you are going to take a while, you should appreciate each other and really take time to plan some joint activities that you both remind you of the importance of your relationship. It could be an evening on which you cook together, dig up these old board games, go for a walk together or simply have an uninterrupted and meaningful conversation ( smartphone-free, ideally).

5. Restore your “Sie-time”

2020 has requested its toll and it is time to be a little more selfish. Everyone is affected to a certain extent, so that they are completely and undeniable from any feeling of guilt if they skip the gym for a long bathroom and a face mask or spend a whole afternoon only for fun. Instead of emphasizing, being "productive". If you feel a little burned out, this is a real sign of your body that you stop immediately and have more fun, more relaxation and more limits for your life so that you can see when you have to work and when you have to play.