Meditation helps to quiet negative thoughts in your head and improve your focus. Each day, take at least ten minutes and sit in a quiet space where you will be uninterrupted and focus on nothing but your body and your breaths. If you haven't ever meditated, use an app like Headspace or Calm. Your overthinking might be triggered in part by an attachment to your phone. You might find yourself looking at it every minute for a call or text from your partner. Instead of obsessing over communicating with them, unplug sometimes. Leave your phone at home occasionally when going out with friends. Put it on silent when working or watching your favorite show. Your overthinking might come from a self esteem issue. You may worry that you don't measure up or that your partner deserves better. To combat these thoughts, repeat mantras to yourself in the mornings or when you feel down. You might say "I am beautiful. I am intelligent. I am worthy of love." You might want to spend all your free time with your partner just so you can keep an eye on them. Though spending time together is good, your relationship with yourself is critical. Take at least one day a week to do something that's just for you. Remember that you're not just a person in a relationship; you have a whole identity apart from that. Spend time doing your favorite hobbies like reading, writing, running, or dancing. The more activities you do outside of your relationship, the less time you will have to overthink.

Summary: Practice meditation daily. Put down your phone more often. Repeat positive mantras to yourself daily. Make time for yourself apart from your partner.

Some people find it helpful to take a warm shower, bath, or sauna before bed. This triggers your body's natural response to cool itself, which will help you fall asleep. Try using soothing aromatic bath oils such as lavender. It is also important to wear comfortable pajamas that are made of a material that will wick moisture away from your body, like cotton. This will help keep you comfortable throughout the night. For the best sleeping conditions, your room should be cool, dark, and quiet. You can use a fan or white noise machine to help drown out outside noises if you like. You should also make sure your mattress, bedding, and pillow are comfortable. Some people respond well to keeping the bed area tidy, too. Make your bed with a set of new or freshly washed plain matching bed sheets. In choosing the bedding go for a quiet colour, without any patterns, and for natural, skin friendly fibers. A fresh, tidy and comfortable bed would encourage sleep or at least make your tossing and turning less irksome. If you never do other activities in your bed, your brain will associate it with sleep, which should make it easier for you to fall asleep when you are there. Avoid activities like watching television, working, and using your phone in your bed. It's best not to perform these activities in your bedroom at all, but if you must, sit in a chair or on a sofa instead of on the bed. Remove all non-sleep-related items from the immediate vicinity of the bed. This means plates, magazines, your laptop, etc. Reduce the items on the night table to a few vitals: an alarm clock, a reading lamp, one book, a glass of water.

Summary: Prepare your body for sleep. Make your room comfortable. Designate your bed as a place for sleeping.

Once you have healed enough to start moving your knee again, your doctor may give you exercises to help you get mobility back in your knee. The exercises will be aimed to help prevent stiffness, increase strength, improve range of motion, and increase the flexibility of the joints of your knee. You may be given exercises that focus on balance and strength. You need to do them several times a day to improve over time. The type of the exercises and the amount of time you will have to do them depends on the extent of your injury. You may need more if your severely sprained your knee. Ask you doctor how long you should do your exercises. If your injury was really bad, you may need to work with a physical therapist or do at home physical therapy for a little while after your injury. This is not common in most cases, but there are some cases where this is necessary to completely heal the knee ligaments and return your knee to its former state. The exercises you do will depend on you injury, but they are to help with stiffness, reduce any lingering swelling, and return your knee to its full range of motion without pain. A few weeks after your injury, your doctor may suggest you return to your normal everyday routine without the assistance of wraps, crutches, or braces. When this happens, it is likely that she will suggest you take it easy at first to test out your strength, flexibility, and range of motion after your injury. If you do not experience pain, you can go back to your normal level of activity, including sports and other physical activities. In rare cases, your doctor may decide it is necessary that you have surgery. One of the main reasons for surgery is to repair your anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), which is the ligament inside your knee that helps is move it back and forth. Since it is such an integral ligament, if you rupture, tear, or injure this muscle, it needs to get fixed in the best way possible. It is even more common for athletes to need surgery on the ACL to ensure a return to previous range of motion and strength. You may also need surgery if you injured more than one ligament in your knee. It may be too difficult for your ligaments to repair themselves on their own. Surgery is typically the last resort. In most cases, all the other methods are tried first before surgery is even considered as an option.

Summary: Do exercises. Take physical therapy if needed. Slowly increase activity. Get surgery if necessary.

If there is a head seat in the room you are using, it's appropriate for you to take it. You are the leader, and you are visually establishing that by taking the head seat. On the other hand, if you want to establish a more informal setting, you might sit in the middle of the group. It will make you more approachable, though it may cut down a bit on your authority. If the committee is new, explain how it will be run. That is, if you have specific rules about how an idea will be brought up, now is the time to lay those rules out. You should also have a handout of the rules so that your members can refer back to them later. For very formal committees, some people turn to Robert's Rules of Orders Newly Revised. It provides rules for how committees are run. You can also establish any rules for any misconduct, include people coming late to the meetings, not being prepared, or taking over a meeting completely. You've already established the purpose of the committee for yourself. However, your members need to be clear on what the purpose is as well. Go over the purpose in the first meeting. In addition, you should be clear about what each member should contribute in terms of time and ideas. You should also have the purpose in writing to help guide your members throughout the time they are on the committee. Once rules and consequences are in place, you have to be the one who makes sure they are followed. That means following through with any consequences in a fair and just manner. It always pays to be diplomatic, even when someone is breaking the rules. As an example, if you have all agreed that no one can talk for more than 10 minutes with the exception of special presentations, when someone is going over, you need to step in. However, instead of saying, "John, you need to be quiet now. You're way over time." you could say, "Thanks, John, for that valuable information. I know you have more to say, but maybe you can put it in a short email to all our committee members so we can be sure to cover all the items on our agenda today." Agendas guide meetings because they help the group focus on a few main ideas. You must make sure that the agenda is appropriate. That is, you must make sure that you have enough time to give each item on the agenda the attention it needs. If you have too much on it, you'll be forced to skip over some items. Hand the agenda out a day or two before the meeting so members can be prepared. Make sure each person knows what she or he is responsible for on the agenda beforehand. If the committee doesn't have an established secretary, make sure someone takes minutes at every meeting. That way, you can have something to refer back to when you want to know what happened at each meeting.
Summary: Take the head seat. Set up the rules upfront. Ensure the purpose is clear. Make sure the rules are followed. Always have an appropriate written agenda. Have someone take minutes.