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Before I get into this video and the upcoming video series, I wanted to pause and say thank you. Amy and I are staying home, doing our best with social distancing—and if you’re doing the same, thank you.

If you’re working in the world to continue providing groceries, medical care, transportation, cleaning, and other essential services that keep our lives running—thank you for risking your own well-being to do so. Thank you.

At this point, it has been a few weeks and I’m still having trouble fully processing everything that is going on right now. There’s a lot of uncertainty about what will happen in the next few months around the world, and for most of us, our lives have been disrupted in a way that we haven’t really experienced before.

Despite being an optimist, I don’t find it productive to attempt forced feelings of positivity during a crisis. While I might have tried to do that in the past, I’m now focusing more on trying to just feel what I’m experiencing at this moment and not push those feelings away too quickly.

That, and ice cream helps. Let’s just say my friends Ben and Jerry are the only two other people outside of my household that I haven’t been following social distancing protocol with during this time.

Many of us are working from home for the first time, which can definitely be a challenging adjustment on top of everything else happening right now. As someone who’s been working from home for the past several years, I figured I could share some strategies for working from home that have been helpful for me.

When I first started out, it was an unexpectedly disruptive transition. It took me almost a full year to get accustomed to my new work-from-home routine. I realized there were distractions at home that I didn’t have when I had a separate work office to go to on weekdays.

Hello again, it’s me, Anthony. AKA, The Last Productivity YouTuber On Earth To Try Bullet Journaling.

Sure, I’ve tried it before and failed. It’s not pens or notebooks that are the issue. I’ve always loved those things. There’s something about the experience of putting pen to paper that really does it for me. But the plan your whole life and make it pretty part? Never really clicked—until recently.