How to settle in for the long haul

👩‍💻 Today’s tip: Make daily life in a pandemic more doable by focusing on your physical comfort.

If you’ve been working from home for months and still haven’t gotten to it, now is the time: Get a good home office chair. As Laura Vanderkam writes, setting up a real workstation — let’s say one with a houseplant, a computer perched at a height that doesn’t make your neck sore, and maybe even one of those ring lights that’ll make your Zoom-mates marvel at your radiant glow — is a way to finally “snap out of survival mode.”

While there are a lot of things we have no control over right now, Vanderkam notes, some problems are indeed fixable. “Instead of hanging on and waiting for things to change ‘back to normal,’ she writes, “it’s time to make this new life work.” Discomfort is distracting. It’s also a problem you can fix.

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