1. Pay attention to how you're feeling

We often hear tips and tricks for helping us to "control" our emotions, but that's the wrong idea: strong emotions aren't bad, and they don't need to be pushed down or controlled. What we need to do is learn to develop emotional agility, the capacity to mine even the most difficult emotions for data that can help us make better decisions.

Read: How to Manage Your Emotions Without Fighting Them

2. Practice gratitude

When you're busy, your life feels out of control, like a hamster on a treadmill. In a full-life, you chose all the things filling your life. This realization helps produce an immense amount of gratitude and resilience. 

Read: Is your life full or busy? It matters...

3. Take small breaks
 

Throughout the workday, it's important to pay attention to the peaks and valleys of energy and productivity that we all experience, what health psychologists call our ultradian (hourly) as opposed to our circadian (daily) rhythms. Mental focus, clarity and energy cycles are typically 90-120 minutes long, so it is useful to step away from our work for even a few minutes to reset energy and attention.

Read: 5 Ways to Boost Your Resilience at Work

4. Be open with your co-workers
 

In the old days it was a lot easier to believe "work equals rational" and "home equals emotional". But now that work and home life constantly bleed into each other, that distinction has become anachronistic... If men and women were to express more emotion routinely and easily at work, then as people we might not feel so chronically anxious and overwhelmed.

Read: Taking Your Feelings To Work

5. Ask for help

When you've got a lot on your plate, sometimes you can't see clearly enough to ask for help. But taking a few moments to reach out to your network and get support can make all the difference. Read our tips for asking for help from acquaintances over email.

Read: How to make an ask over email