Work-life balance these days seems like a difficult feat. The hush rush lifestyle, burdensome work hours and distress has made it impossible for us to bring a balance between the personal and professional life. So, here are a few tips to help better manage the work–life balance.
According a survey carried out by the Harvard Business School experts, a whopping 94% of professionals reported working more than 50 hours per week and nearly half said they worked more than 65 hours per week. This indicates that the compounding stress from the never-ending work is harmful; it tends to hurt relationships, health, happiness and overall life.
Although, work-life balance means different to every individual, yet the health and career experts believe in some ways that can really help you find the balance that’s right for you.
Have a look.
1. Let Go Of Perfectionism
The urge to become perfectionist today turns people into overachievers and perfectionist at a very young age. However, here the truth is that it’s easier to maintain that perfectionism as a kid, but life gets more complicated as you grow up. With the increase in position and burden at work, and as your family grows, even your errands mushroom. As such, perfectionism becomes out of reach and a mental distress.
The key to avoid intolerable consequences is to let go of perfectionism. “As life gets more expanded it’s very hard, both neurologically and psychologically, to keep that habit of perfection going.” Therefore, strive for Excellence instead of that burdensome perfectionism.
2. Work Smarter, Not Harder
Gone are the days when success revolved around hard workers. It’s the era of ‘Smart’ The increasing work pressure and challenges have made it mandatory for the professionals to focus more on working smartly than to work hard. Follow the new trend of ‘tight prioritization’. Allow yourself to do a particular task only for a certain amount of time and try not to get caught up in less productive activities, like unstructured meetings that tend to take up lots of time.
In addition, learn time management. We all lack this habit which is unfortunately the most important today. Besides prioritizing the tasks for the day, think about how you can divide your time so that things go exactly the way you scheduled them.
3. Leave Work at Work
Our over work, daily challenges, deadlines, financial exchanges, etc. demands endless working hours. Many a times, professionals get so struck that they are forced to take their work at home. This hinders their personal life and health. They work for hours late at night, compromising their meals, sleep and family time. Trust me, these compromises will ruin your life in the long run. Leave your work at workplace. Don’t even the work panic at home. Whether it’s about a deal, a task, or even a work environment issue, leave all as is when steeping put of the workplace. Take deep breaths; listen to your favorite music while driving back home and try to lighten your mood so that your work stress doesn’t affect our remaining hours at home.
4. Set your own rules
“You really need to find your own work-life balance, probably with the help of others,” says Allen. “The important thing is to ignore the should's – the should's that comes from other people or from you internalizing others’ mindsets. You have to rely on your own intuition.”
5. Consider Relations
While work is a necessity in life, relations are crucial too. Relations, whether your friends, spouse or family are important; they act as a great support in your life in both your good and bad. If you’ve responsibilities towards your work and workplace, you do have it for your relations. Make sure spend good amount of time for them out of your busy schedule. This will not only make your loved ones happy, but will boost your energy levels.
6. Ease Off The Adrenaline
Do you need the rush of adrenaline throughout the day, whether it’s at the gym or at paid employment? The reality is you ought to monitor that. You need to question yourself how happening and smooth your life is. “What happens often is that those hooked on adrenaline hop from one rush to another – from one task to another, from work to gym. What’s that like for your family and friends to be around? Not much fun, especially when you crash – which inevitably you will,” says Leeds-based life coach Melanie Allen.
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