How to cope with teleworking: 4 necessary psychological changes

These are some changes to introduce to your daily life to manage teleworking well.

The famous telework (that is, working remotely or online, using new technologies, either from home or from any other place that does not involve moving to an office) has become a necessity in times of pandemic, but also a headache.

It is a difficulty added to our new times. How to deal with teleworking to gain time instead of losing it? In this article (with video included) you will find the 4 psychological changes necessary to transform your telework into a help for your day to day instead of a problem.

Why do we talk about psychological changes?

The results or experiences you obtain in your work, in your daily life, in your personal, sentimental or family relationships, depend above all on your personal development, depend above all on your personal developmentHow you interpret situations, how you manage resources, how you communicate, how you build your self-esteem, how you understand and manage your emotions, your self-knowledge, etc.

Working remotely today is a challenge for which we were not prepared; not only because of the pandemic situation, but also because in many cases we had never done it before and it means a break with all our known work schemes and structures.

Even before the pandemic, technological progress and our new social needs (working 8 hours in an office or elsewhere is unproductive and consumes a large part of our day to day) made teleworking necessary. But if we are not used to doing it and it means stress, anguish, disorganization, how can we turn it into an advantage?how are we going to transform it into an advantage?

First of all, is it possible to transform teleworking into an experience that gives you more well-being to your life instead of being a nuisance? Yes, it can, but only through your own personal change. Only if you develop the necessary key skills can you cope with it to save time, get more and better results, feel better and harmonize it with your daily and personal life.

A job, a service in short, does not have to mean that you spend a certain number of hours in a specific place. Many of the social needs covered by different jobs can be done remotely.. It is not at all a cold approach, but a productive one, which allows you to harmonize it with your life and improve the personal aspects that we tend to neglect more (partner, family, personal satisfaction, interest in other knowledge).

However... we already know that the opposite can happen with teleworking if we do not learn how to take advantage of it. Therefore, I have left you a video where you can delve into the following: why teleworking is so difficult for us (the social structures that have made us unproductive people) and what are the 4 psychological changes needed to make teleworking an experience in your favor.

In the last 10 years I have accompanied, as a psychologist and coach, people who wanted to achieve changes in their lives through change processes, whether personal or professional. Since teleworking has become more and more necessary (sometimes mandatory, without anyone having taught us how to do it) this need to drive personal change has become more immediate.

Summarizing from what we have seen above, the main problems that make teleworking an added difficulty are the following:

1. External structures

These dilate the time instead of optimizing it according to concrete and inflexible schedules.

2. Working according to minimum times

Also made us stretch our time and lose focus. (to understand what minimum and maximum times mean, watch the video).

3. Lack of confidence

This lack of confidence can be oriented towards you or your results, and it it undermines your mood and makes you feel more and more insecure.

What to do to cope with teleworking?

You already know what these 4 necessary psychological changes are (which you can find developed in the video above).

1. Learning to manage time

Work according to maximum times instead of minimums to gain focus and time).

2. Planning and organization

For prioritize what is important over what is urgentTo learn how to make decisions and economize resources)

3. Create your own structure

With clear routines that are totally different from those in the office but that do not stretch your time and keep you at work longer than necessary... you know, no working in your pajamas. and keep you at work longer than necessary... you know, no working in your pajamas).

4. Learn to understand and manage your emotions

These lead you to make one decision or another or to interpret what happens one way or another.

To conclude...

If you want to develop these skills and live the change you need, at empoderamientohumano.com you can schedule a first exploratory session with me to take that first step. In addition, people who live their processes in the month of November will have an extra help to improve their productivity.

First of all I send you lots of encouragement, and rest assured that teleworking, thanks to your own personal change, will end up being an experience that you will want to stay with rather than abandon it. Our life is worth living if we have it available to be lived, not just as a weekend break. Having the time at your disposal is, in principle, a decision. A decision that leads to your personal change.