Remind yourself that you are doing your best
IT’S CRUCIAL TO take stock of your accomplishments and celebrate your successes for greater resilience.
What are my top three personal successes during the pandemic?
What are my top three work successes?
How have I celebrated these? Or how am I going to celebrate them?
YOU CAN use this technique with family and colleagues. Celebrating successes and praising efforts will create and spread uplifting feelings. When you are feeling positive, the neurotransmitter dopamine enhances learning, motivation and attention.
How can you and your family or colleagues share the load – including the emotional load?
What stops you asking for help? Could you set those reasons aside and ask anyway, to support your family or team more fully?
If asking for help was a superpower to empower others, how would you use it differently?