Stress Management
Pressures at work or home can increase your stress level and lead to muscle tension and tightness, which can impact your effectiveness at work and your quality of life

Techniques for reducing muscle tension due to stress:

Technique #1: Clenched jaw or grinding teeth

Open your mouth as wide as you can, stretching your jaw muscles, pause, and close. Repeat 3 times, and then relax your jaw towards the ground

Technique #2: Squinting eyes

Focus on an object in the distance for 10 seconds while relaxing all facial muscles.

Technique #3: Hunched shoulders

Raise your shoulders toward your ears, pause, and then roll your shoulders back and down towards the ground. Repeat 3 times.

Technique #4: Furrowed forehead

Relax all facial muscles, close your eyes, and imagine your face melting towards the ground

Expert advice for maintaining the balance between work and home

Advice #1: Protect your day off

Try to schedule some of your routine chores on workdays so that your days off are more relaxing.  For example: doing one load of laundry a day, rather than saving it all up for your day off, gives you more time to do the things you enjoy on your day off

Advice #2: Keep a log

Track everything you do for one week, including work-related and non-work related activities.  After you see your patterns, decide where to make adjustments, such as cutting or delegating activities you don't enjoy, or which aren't priorities.

Advice #3: Get enough sleep

There's nothing as stressful and potentially dangerous as working when you are sleep deprived.  Not only is your productivity affected, but you can also make costly mistakes.  You may then have to work even more hours to make up for these mistakes.