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Keep your relationships top of mind

Keep your relationships top of mind

From the course: Supporting Your Mental Health While Working from Home

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Keep your relationships top of mind

- You often hear people say that the most important thing to them is actually their friends and family, the people they love. Not their next promotion, getting a pay rise or what grades their kids achieve, but the people that they have, that they love and who love and value them. From everything I know about the brain, and a few other things, I think this is the way it's meant to be. I think we're built to value relationships. But do our actions always reflect this? I know mine don't. I know when my beautiful seven-year old daughter, wants to show me a cup, that she's made out of paper, and an extraordinary amount of sellotape, I should give her my time and full attention, to tell me all about this latest invention. But part of my mind is wondering to that big To-Do list that I've wanted to achieve today, and that her schooling should be starting in five minutes. And the fact that she hasn't had breakfast yet. And if…

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