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One of the best tips I ever learned for my brain 🧠, emotional regulation and coping skills is this. Walks are so powerful.
Can you carve out some time to take a walk this week?
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A one-hour meeting rarely costs you just one hour.

There’s the time you spend anticipating it.

The disruption to whatever you were working on beforehand.

And the time afterwards when part of your mind is still stuck on what was just discussed.

This is one reason a calendar packed with meetings can leave you feeling busy all day while making sustained, focused work surprisingly difficult.

In today’s video, I look at the idea of attention residue and share a few simple ways to reduce the mental cost of moving in and out of meetings throughout the day.

Sometimes protecting your focus isn’t about finding more time.

It’s about being more intentional with the time that’s already in your calendar.

Is there one meeting on your calendar this week that could be shorter, combined, or handled another way?

Also, if you're going through a tough time right now, I want you to know that I post daily mental health videos about how to deal with painful thoughts. So if you or anyone you know is struggling and wants help, click on one of the links below or write me if you have any questions you want me to answer:

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When we struggle to concentrate, our first instinct is often to blame ourselves.

We tell ourselves to try harder, be more disciplined, or stop getting distracted.

But sometimes the problem isn’t your motivation.

It’s everything around you competing for your attention.

Your phone. Notifications. Open browser tabs. Conversations nearby. People moving around you.

Individually, these distractions seem small. But when your brain has to keep resisting them throughout the day, staying focused becomes much harder than it needs to be.

In today’s video, I look at how small changes to your environment can make it easier to protect your attention without relying entirely on willpower.

What’s the biggest distraction in your own work environment?

Also, if you're going through a tough time right now, I want you to know that I post daily mental health videos about how to deal with painful thoughts. So if you or anyone you know is struggling and wants help, click on one of the links below or write me if you have any questions you want me to answer:

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Multitasking can feel productive because you’re constantly doing something.

But being busy across several tasks at once isn’t necessarily the same as making meaningful progress.

Every time your attention jumps from one type of work to another, your brain has to reorient itself to the new task.

Do that repeatedly throughout the day and even familiar work can start to feel more mentally demanding than it needs to.

In today’s video, I look at why multitasking often works against us and share a simple way to organize your work so your brain has fewer reasons to constantly change gears.

What’s the task you’re most likely to interrupt with “just a quick check” of something else?

Also, if you're going through a tough time right now, I want you to know that I post daily mental health videos about how to deal with painful thoughts. So if you or anyone you know is struggling and wants help, click on one of the links below or write me if you have any questions you want me to answer:

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You can be busy for eight hours and still feel like you barely got anything meaningful done.

Sometimes the problem is that your attention never stayed in one place long enough.

Emails, notifications, conversations, colleagues, and the temptation to check “just one thing” can quietly break the workday into dozens of small pieces.

And by the end of it, you’re not only behind on the work you wanted to finish. You’re mentally exhausted too.

In today’s video, I share a simple experiment you can try to see just how often your attention is being pulled away during a normal workday, and one way to start taking some of that control back.

How often do you think you get interrupted during a typical day at work?

What’s one thing you’ve made it through that once felt impossible?

Also, if you're going through a tough time right now, I want you to know that I post daily mental health videos about how to deal with painful thoughts. So if you or anyone you know is struggling and wants help, click on one of the links below or write me if you have any questions you want me to answer:

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This thought really hit me. There have been times in all of our lives where we are drowning so much, we can't even think of how to ask for help- let alone actually do it.
I want you to know that you are worthy of help, hope and healing. It's okay to admit when you're struggling.

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Bringing it back to basics. Here are some very simple coping skill ideas you can use ☺️ Or make your own!

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Sometimes we stay in situations that hurt us because leaving feels selfish. We worry about disappointing someone, being misunderstood, or becoming the “bad person” in someone else’s story. So we keep giving chances, explaining ourselves, and tolerating things that slowly wear us down.

But there comes a point where protecting yourself isn’t cruel. It’s recognizing that your wellbeing matters too. You can care about someone and still need distance. You can understand why someone behaves the way they do without accepting how they treat you. And you can walk away from something that is hurting you without hating the person you’re leaving behind.

Not everyone needs to be removed from your life when things get difficult. But you are allowed to have boundaries around what you repeatedly accept.

Sometimes growth is learning that keeping the peace with everyone else should not require losing your own.

What boundary have you learned to stop feeling guilty about?

Also, if you're going through a tough time right now, I want you to know that I post daily mental health videos about how to deal with painful thoughts. So if you or anyone you know is struggling and wants help, click on one of the links below or write me if you have any questions you want me to answer:

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When you’re depressed, hopelessness can feel less like an emotion and more like a prediction. You feel like nothing will change, so your mind starts telling you that nothing can change. The feeling is real, but that doesn’t mean the future your mind is imagining is real too.

Your emotions deserve compassion, especially when you’re struggling. But you can acknowledge how you feel without allowing that feeling to decide what happens next. Instead of letting “I feel hopeless” become “my life is hopeless,” remind yourself of something you can do, something you have already survived, or one small way you can take care of yourself today.

You don’t need to suddenly feel hopeful about your entire future. Sometimes you just need to stop letting today’s pain write tomorrow’s story.

What’s one thing you’ve made it through that once felt impossible?

Also, if you're going through a tough time right now, I want you to know that I post daily mental health videos about how to deal with painful thoughts. So if you or anyone you know is struggling and wants help, click on one of the links below or write me if you have any questions you want me to answer:

www.instagram.com/thomas_of_copenhagen

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