It is difficult to appreciate the levels of stress that you may be under. 

Frankly, present conditions, exaggerated as they are by lock-down, are unprecedented. For most practitioners, January each year is already best described as “panic stations” as firms dash towards the SA filing deadline at the end of the month.

This is compounded by the needs of staff working at home and cut-off from their work colleagues and any face to face contact with clients.

Practitioners are also unprepared, in the main, for these additional, socially distanced challenges.

Which is why we probably need to keep a weather eye open for signs of stress and anxiety. 

As advisers to our local business community there is a given that we are sponges that can absorb the ever increasing impact of calamity and bad news that clients may face, but we should not ignore our own reactions to these unforgiving difficulties. 

Perhaps we just need to stand back from time to time and take a few deep breaths. 

2021 will likely see a continuing need for lockdown until vaccines and the present attempts at containing infection start to ease pressure on the NHS. We should brace ourselves for more disruption and the pressures that come with continuing COVID disruption.

Source: New feed