Work/Life Balance and Working Smarter

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How much you value work life balance? Do you really see that the company you are looking at as a prospective employer has the policies for getting you a stable and significant work life balance?

The company in which you are working should be promoting the values of maintaining a good work life balance. The fact is simple; a healthy employee resides in a healthy home. As a mother of two toddlers, an entrepreneur and a wife, has taught me many lessons. I am a workaholic. You are at the end the one who makes the priorities and the one who decides the work life balance.

When we blame our jobs for the missing football matches with kids, or missing the parent teacher interaction, are we really doing the right thing? It’s really your decision to stay like that. Most of the times, it is your decision at the end, to put extra hours at work at the helm of your personal and family life. You have decided not to say “No” to your boss to impress him and get another raise or promotion.

Majority of people work for about 9 hours per day and get 6-8 hours of sleep. What is left is just seven hours for all the other things like eating, commute, family time, hobby, relaxation, workout, etc.

Best Pick Recommendation for Excellent Work Life Balance

So how to give your 100% to all the things you do? Here is some of the best pick recommendations for the good work life balance:

• Have defined time and timeline for everything you do - develop some routine and process it as per the time. Like wakeup at 6:00 AM, bath time at 7:30, sleep by 10 PM, etc. This will ensure that over the time you have your processes and items set out and you do not need to give it a thought on what to do next in the day. You are always in control of your schedule and will develop an automated urge of doing things in a set framework.
• Prioritize the important things first. Understand that only organizing your priorities can help you skip the floundering in schedules. Start by setting all of the things you need to do including work deadlines, daily tasks, household chores, etc. Now you have everything which you need to prioritize them. It’s a personal judgement and choice and you can shuffle up some of the items as some other more important thing comes up.
• Do not think more about the things which do not have much impact. The time you spend on thinking about a decision should be directly proportional to the impact of that thing.