If you work on a laptop or phone, you need to do this:

Step away from the laptop, put down your phone, and find a creative outlet that you enjoy or engage in some manual labor.

Here are some ideas:

Painting, coloring (borrow your kids’ coloring book or they even make adult ones!), dancing, pottery, baking, gardening, cooking, writing, house projects, embroidery, cross-stitching, hiking, climbing, fitness classes, etc.

And do it DAILY.

For me, I like to go hiking or at least daily walks around our neighborhood, baking (mostly breads right now), weight lifting, there’s always a house project, land work at our cabin (splitting wood is actually really fun!), and I want to do more coloring, a paint-by-numbers thing, and get into embroidery ☺

Of course, as someone who is a big fan and coach of remote work, I love that my work can be done anywhere and pretty much anytime, but just because it CAN does not mean it SHOULD.

Your eyes need a break. Heck, your brain needs a break!

You were not meant to stare at screens all day, every day, and consume as much info as we do daily. It’s information OVERLOAD and comparison overload.

Determine your creative outlet or what manual labor you're going to do, try it out for 2 weeks, and see what a difference it makes in your life and how much happier you are  ☺