Workplace Wellbeing: How to take a positive approach to to-do lists

If you’re finding the combination of work pressures, social obligations, and festive planning overwhelming, our experts have a number of strategies to help you cope.

Office workers trying to meet end-of-year deadlines should reach out to colleagues — who are often in the same boat — to bolster motivation. Picture: iStock

WITH just under two weeks left until Christmas, the length of your still-to-do list may be causing you stress. The combination of work pressures, social obligations and the logistics of festive planning can make this time of year a hectic one. Two experts in positive psychology share strategies to help you cope.

“Many of us experience a buildup of stress at work in the pre-Christmas period, says Margaret Forde, a chartered counselling and organisational psychologist (positivepsychology.ie).