Dear Maria Mango:

Congratulations for the job and the promotion to a leadership promotion.

Some employers offer professional counseling to their employees to help the latter deal with work and personal stress. If such is not offered by your employers, maybe they are willing to offer that.

If I was you, I would take on the job of being my own personal manager. Through trial and error, through experimentation, I will learn what works best for me: how many hours of work non stop, how often I should take breaks, what kinds of break, how long… how to do the work itself, order of tasks… experiment and learn how you, personally, work best and see to it that you manage yourself best: manage your time, work and leisure, order of tasks, ways to do any particular task.

anita