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<\/p>\nAs a result of the pandemic many are unemployed or newly working from home, and they are struggling to figure out how to manage their day-to-day events.\u00a0\u00a0 Balance is getting out of sync.\u00a0 People are struggling and stressed.\u00a0\u00a0 What can they control?\u00a0 How do they decide when to do something? <\/p>\n
Imagine seeing your neighbor coming home from work each day, stopping outside their front door, and waving their arms around before going inside.\u00a0 In the morning they come out, stop outside their front door, and wave their arms around again.\u00a0\u00a0 You see this time and time again.\u00a0 Finally, you go over to your neighbor and say, \u201cI am curious about something.\u00a0 Every morning you step outside your front door and you wave your arms around.\u00a0\u00a0 Every evening you stop outside your front door and wave your arms around.\u00a0 I am curious, what are you doing?\u201d \u00a0The response is that when they come home from work, they take all the work problems, challenges, and issues, hang them up in the tree, go inside, and are at home.\u00a0\u00a0 In the morning when they come out, nobody has ever stolen those challenges or problems, they have never washed away in the rain or blown away in the wind.\u00a0 That is when they can do something about them, so they take them and go to work.<\/p>\n
The lesson learned: Focus on what is within your control, and when you can do something about it.\u00a0 Do what you can when you can and protect time for yourself and your family.<\/p>\n