Compartmentalize your life
When developing software products, managers often form small teams that work on specific tasks. Development is split into different teams and groups depending on priority and complexity. This isolation allows engineers to not get distracted with problems other team members face. Bugs affecting one team don’t have ripple effects and can be contained quickly.
This tactic is useful for our day-to-day life too. Just like software development, we can isolate different tasks of our life from one another. A bad meeting shouldn’t affect your next meal or an argument with a friend shouldn’t stop you from exercising. I have suffered from ripple effects during my early 20s, something like a Twitter argument would ruin my entire day. A bad lecture meant I wouldn’t workout in the evening.
But this can be avoided if we compartmentalized our life. Forming virtual. boundaries between each task and not letting it affect anything else. This is especially important right now since the pandemic has blurred our work and personal lives. Try it out for a week and see how it goes, I am sure it will make a difference.
