{"id":3970,"date":"2020-03-19T08:00:16","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T12:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/?p=3970"},"modified":"2020-03-19T10:35:22","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T14:35:22","slug":"thoughtful-thursdays-difficult-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/19\/thoughtful-thursdays-difficult-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughtful Thursdays &#8211; Difficult times"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>All people and businesses have been affected by the COVID-19 situation, some more than others. Many are now working from home and minimizing in person contact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If working from home is new to you, it can be a difficult transition. Here are a few suggestions that may be helpful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Keep your regular business hours.<\/li><li>Dress for work.<\/li><li>Take breaks and lunch as you normally would. Avoid getting &#8220;stuck&#8221; at your desk.<\/li><li>Let your family know that you are working and and minimize unscheduled interuptions.<\/li><li> Continue to maintain connections with your colleagues and customers. Speak with them on a regular basis. They may be experiencing added stress as well and an empathetic ear can be helpful support.<\/li><li>Take the time to get your files and record keeping up to date.<\/li><li>Be ready for the time when the situation eases up.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Good selling,<br>Richard<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Have a question about sales?&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sakanashiandassociates.com\/contact\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Contact Sakanashi and Associates Inc.<\/a>&nbsp;and I will respond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All people and businesses have been affected by the COVID-19 situation, some more than others. Many are now working from home and minimizing in person contact. If working from home is new to you, it&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/19\/thoughtful-thursdays-difficult-times\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3],"tags":[60,73],"class_list":["post-3970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sales","category-thoughtful-thursdays","tag-sales-2","tag-thoughtful-thursdays"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3971,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3970\/revisions\/3971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}