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3 Strategies To Help You Thrive Through Chaotic Times
How to be productive even when you’re worried and stressed
It’s 7 AM. You roll out of bed, eager to tackle a list of giant to-do’s to move your career forward, get that book published, or whatever goal your office cork board has pinned at its center.
But first, you peek at your phone just to see if anything major went down the night before. The headlines rile your fragile nerves, sparking fear of an impending doom ready to kaleidoscope your brain into a billion different possibilities, none of them positive. Instead of getting to work, you spend the next several hours hitting refresh, terrified yet compelled to latch onto the next crisis.
It’s the golden age of crisis media.
They’ve got us stressed, short on sleep, and tuned into the constant barrage of outrage. Sure, there’s a lot of crazy shit gripping the world, so we have reason to teeter on edge.
Nobody’s immune, not even those giving advice about how to counteract it. I’ve lost countless days of productivity during the past year, stressed out by the pandemic, angry parents weaponizing their kids against school boards, and crazed insurrectionists.
What has all that worrying yielded?
