Master the Balance

Mastering The Balance

Once you have constructed a plan to maintain your work-life balance, keep that plan in place. Always be aware that it is easy to fall back into the bad habit of putting work before yourself. When you have your plan and agenda in place for a healthier life you must keep up with it. Keep track with calendars, journals or cell phone.

Fight The Technostress

Since our daily lives revolve around technology, it brings the daily usage up and so does our stress level. The problem with this is for us to think it makes our lives easier but in reality, it evokes typical stress responses and increases our heart rate, blood pressure and everything else and we don’t think about the negative impacts. Fight the technostress and enjoy the environment, do one task at a time, and take a break from all the light up screens that distract us from what really matters.

Strategy

Here are some things you can consider:

Manage the balance by mastering your work and personal life. If you have a healthy mind and body overall you will be a happier person.
You may have found your career but we still set goals. It could be for health or even a higher position. Remember when setting them to make them realistic, don’t set them to high and give reasonable deadlines.
Expand your options, you do not have to depend on yourself. Take advantage of the time off your employer offers.

When following a new plan or routine, it can be stressful and it is easy to forget. Consider all your options and stay on your positive track!

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Watch this nice and short video for additional tips for the best work-life balance!

[BCW. (2017, December 29). 5 Tips To Maintain A Healthy Worklife Balance. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kg-kOkx5uJI]

Source

Stavrou, P. (2008, December 21). Retrieved from Recommendations for improving work-life balance | Eurofound: https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/article/2008/recommendations-for-improving-work-life-balance

Tips to Maintain your Work-Life Balance

Our digital workplace can be a hazard that will build pressure on us mentally, emotionally and even physically. In today’s society, maintaining our health becomes the number one issue that all of us will face. It can be a hassle to find ways to feel stress-free and less of a burden on your daily lives and surprisingly, there are ways to help.

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Mentally:

Listen to your favourite music
Reduce/break down major stressors
Organize
Getting enough sleep

Physically:

Exercise
Meditation
Enjoy your hobbies
Breathing exercises
Yoga

Emotionally:

Express your feelings/ thoughts through writing
Visualize about something that makes you happy
Talk with others
Counselling

The list can go on, but it is always important to not be stressed because the sources include many psychosocial factors such as pressure, commitments, change and etc that will take a turn for the worse if not taken care of. It can lead to depression and being mentally exhausted that can be alarming to the roles you play in life.

Learning to Cope

Everyone deals with stress in many ways but its all up to you, and knowing your limits. Some people look towards drugs and alcohol as taking action into managing but that is not the right way to go. There are certain things that provide temporary relief but engaging in activities that are beneficial to your health will be the start of stress management and become apart of your daily routine as a permanent resolution.

Source

Scott, E. (2018, March 29). Stress Relievers: 70 Ways to Reduce Stress. Retrieved from Verywellmind: https://www.verywellmind.com/tips-to-reduce-stress-3145195

Work-Life Balance in Today’s Digital Work Place

Defining Work-Life Balance

A work-life balance is separating a personal life from a professional life and its essential to your health that the two are divided.

In today’s workplace, we are surrounded by a lot of technology. We have to remember to find a balance between work and a personal life. Especially in today’s digital world which is the gadgets around us in our workplace, such as laptops, cell phones, pagers, emails, and even text messages end up following us home. That’s when you need to put into mind when the day is done, does it actually end?

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Determine The Situation

Think about it, we constantly check our phones so when we go home and maybe cook dinner, watch a show and work comes up, we attend to it because the access is in front of us. Although working at home is great, it is important to have personal time because, without it, our health can be affected in a negative way.

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Many negative outcomes are possible when we do not focus enough on ourselves. One of the main issues is our health. Working so much can make us lazy, that will lead to being out of shape. Our work environment gets unorganized which can cause stress. Always working has consequences such as fatigue – many mistakes can be made when we are tired.

Now that we know how badly this affects us, what’s next? We are not ourselves when our body’s change. Those around us will now be involved. Children, they need time and attention and without it, they feel neglected. The focus is needed to maintain a healthy relationship with a spouse and even friends. Without the balance it could lead to divorce, loss of friendships, or upset children. That’s why it is so important to maintain it.

Check out Nigel Marsh on his experience with his work-life balance, this video is a great watch!