Being in limbo at work how to#

Decide when you will allow yourself to pick up this worry again. Have boundaries. If there is something small you can do to help progress, put a time-limit in place and stick to it religiously.You will always need to eat, so while you have the time, cut loose and make 100 lasagnas. Be productive in completely different ways.Acknowledge there is nothing you can do - Say it out loud if you need to - then TAKE A BREAK.

Being in limbo at work how to#

Your worries will fall out soon enough: “I am having too much time off and when this big project starts up, I won’t know how to work hard anymore.” People are great distractors, and talking to others helps clarify your anxieties.

So how can we better navigate these times? It’s that period of time when change and disruption are just around the corner and you’re itching to get going, but there is nothing you can do to move things along. I attempted to remedy this by setting up a little work space on one corner of the kitchen table, but I couldn’t shift the thought that there was no point, when surely I would be moving soon. My mental health was sagging and I felt lazy and disgusted with myself. I made no attempt to repack.ĭuring this time my work began to suffer and I couldn’t get anything meaningful done. But as the days drifted into months, I pulled the boxes apart one by one, first to find my yoga mat, then my bike lights, some socks, a wooden box, a hard drive, and then an old charger cable, (which, after all that digging, was not even the right charger cable). In naïve hope, I left my belongings packed up in my friend’s shed. The rental I had lined up wouldn’t be available until another tenant moved out.

I recently returned to my home city, and found myself temporarily living with a friend. Meanwhile life stops for nothing and you’ve got work to do. You can’t plan for next week, let alone next month and your brain is running circles. Thankfully as an adult you don’t have to wait for much you have agency over your own time. But what happens when you temporarily lose that agency? You’re waiting for more details about a job transfer, you’re moving interstate, or there is a hairy issue with your landlord that won’t end well.