How not to go crazy in quarantine: advice from Yuri Tsarev

Yuri Tsarev , hairdresser; author of the philosophy of reincarnation; consultant on harmonious image change; beauty coach; mentor

What can make you go crazy during quarantine? From the lack of opportunity to meet anyone and from confinement within four walls.

The first is more than compensated for by video calls, calls and all kinds of instant messengers. But the second one doesn’t bother me at all. As it turns out, I'm a wonderful introvert. I discovered this only now, but before I considered myself exclusively an extrovert. But I am very comfortable being in my apartment and “traveling” from room to room, and sometimes to the balcony. The balcony is a whole new world.

Special rituals

Due to quarantine, I go out very rarely, maybe once a week. I built a whole ritual for myself before a walk: choosing clothes for going out, choosing a scent. I try to create an emotional atmosphere for myself, as if I were going to some event. This is a small life hack that works so you don’t feel isolated and completely imprisoned.

Sometimes you can dress up festively or just nicely at home. Get yourself in order and watch, for example, a concert of your favorite performer, create the atmosphere of being present at a live performance. You know, as they say, “nothing goes wrong,” and I, like no one else, am at the forefront of this movement.

Education

Everyone rushed to learn as one. Many resources provided access to various trainings either at a huge discount or completely free, for which we thank them very much. Now you can get any knowledge. There is definitely something to fill your free time with. If you have long dreamed of gaining new knowledge, go ahead, today there is enough time for this, and the lower cost of courses contributes to this.

But learning, or more precisely, the opportunity to learn, has a downside. I want to draw your attention to the fact that knowledge needs to be acquired in doses, because it requires regularity. Nowadays there is an opinion that you constantly need to be aware of everything, not be late and be on time everywhere. It’s unclear where not to be late, and where to be on time, too. We will figure it out along the way and look at the situation. This is what happens most often. There are a lot of new sciences, disciplines, visions of how, life hacks, etc. I noticed that there is a tendency to absorb everything to the maximum and not only in the field in which you work. It’s fashionable to “pump up” yourself. And everyone rushed to improve in different directions: emotions, intelligence, physical strength.

Now is the time to take care of your health - to “pump up” your physical fitness and maintain your overall well-being. But more on that a little later.

What exactly should you devote your time to? Lifehack from Tsarev. You need to sit down and sort out your life. For me, quarantine turned out to be a very timely time to explore myself and understand where I really want to go.

Everyone has unfinished business due to the crazy pace of life. There are things that we start and leave for later. So the first thing you need to do is sit down, look and pick up all these “tails”. All types of studies that were started and not completed, all the promises that were made and not kept (to oneself first of all). Disassemble, understand and close.

Yes, this will take a lot of time. And here you need to be honest with yourself. All the promises you made to yourself are worth keeping. Then look at your life and understand what knowledge you lack in order to become the person you strive to be.

And only then start searching for knowledge and, more importantly, looking for the people from whom you want to receive it. The same information provided by different people has different meanings for the listener and differs in message and emotional component. Therefore, the tips are as follows:

1. Seek knowledge only after you feel that you really need it.
2. Having figured it out, find someone from whom you will receive this knowledge in the best possible way.

There are trainers who base their teaching on self-study and only provide consultation. There are those who will tell you about everything down to the smallest detail - this is also worth paying attention to.

Personal care

Very often, in times of crisis, people stop taking care of themselves and stop performing procedures that needed to be done only because they went out into society. Believe me, no matter how long the quarantine lasts, after it you will still have to go out in public. And so that depression does not overtake you from the reflection in the mirror, and then does not cover you completely, take care of yourself now. Devote at least 10 minutes to sports every day. For example, I play sports consistently from Monday to Friday, except Saturday and Sunday.

Create your schedule

Organize a weekly schedule for yourself. Of course, for people who continue to work remotely, their workweek schedule has not changed. But there are those, including me, who cannot work remotely with their hands, and have no choice but to take care of themselves.

So: make sure there is always something to look forward to. I set aside days in my week for learning. I’m closing the above-mentioned “tails” and at the end of quarantine I plan to fully master a new direction - art coaching. From Monday to Friday I study, read, and do work, that is, all days except Saturday and Sunday.

On Saturday I have a free schedule for eating and sleeping, I do exclusively what comes to my mind, what I want exactly that day. Also, Sunday is a completely free day. And when, under quarantine conditions, you are waiting for just such free days, in which there is no schedule, rules and obligations, that special day-holiday appears. Have some holidays for yourself!

Important advice!

Another important piece of training advice I would like to share with my colleagues. I know that all hairdressers rushed to watch trainings, improve their skills and gain new knowledge. I welcome this, well done!

But as a teacher, I know that many masters have a huge gap in their color base. Some people work by touch, some by intuition, and some work as they see fit.

Guys, let's remember that new trends and new techniques are great and you need to be in context. But when you “plant” new knowledge on a completely fragile foundation, sooner or later it will collapse. I beg you and encourage you to repeat, and for some, to study the basics of color, cutting and styling techniques. Turn to such fundamental knowledge to emerge from quarantine more confident, pay attention to simpler procedures and try to improve their quality. These are the simple ways to benefit from the time we spend in quarantine.

Don't get sick, everyone is 36.6!