Written by: Moira Hutchison, Executive Contributor
Executive Contributors at Brainz Magazine are handpicked and invited to contribute because of their knowledge and valuable insight within their area of expertise.
Creating a work-life balance is good for your physical, emotional, and mental wellbeing. However, often, heavy business and job responsibilities undermine that balance. When that happens, both our professional and personal life can suffer unwanted consequences.
But how can you achieve that balance and still excel at your business or career?
Use these top tips to create your best work-life balance:
1. Avoid checking your business emails outside the office.
While in the office, you will probably check your work emails often to ensure that any meetings, projects, and deadlines are met. However, checking them when you are off work allows your professional life to encroach on your personal life.
Set boundaries with yourself and your clients and colleagues regarding emails, so that you can take care of business communications only while at work.
2. Learn to say no.
You may love your job, but it is usually unnecessary to be available 24/7. We all need a break occasionally, and there is nothing wrong with saying no occasionally. Especially outside of your scheduled work hours.
3. Work smarter, not harder.
Instead of working all hours of the day, with very little rest, work smarter. You will get more done in a shorter period.
Prioritize important tasks and do these tasks first each day. This way, the most important things always get done.
Avoid unproductive activities, such as unstructured meetings or checking your social media accounts.
4. Leave work at work.
This may be difficult and may not always be possible (especially if you work from home), but when you clock off for the day, make a mental note that work has finished.
Perhaps take a moment to acknowledge that work has finished by stopping and taking a breath before leaving your office. The reason for this is to ensure that you are not bringing the work and any stress associated with it into your personal time.
5. You don’t need to be perfect.
Have you ever been on your way out of the office, only to turn back around because you thought of a way to make a project or task perfect? Sometimes, it pays to remind yourself that you and your work are good enough.
6. Focus on things outside work.
For some of us, our work is our life, but what happens if one day we lose our job? Where does that leave us? It may be a scary thought, but it is important to have a life outside of work.
Develop some hobbies that interest you. Spending time doing something that you love reduces stress and energizes you while relaxing and uplifting your mood. Add some “happy time” to your life!
7. Make your own rules.
There has been a shift in work attitudes. More people — even leaders — are recognizing the value of work-life balance. Come up with your own ideas that will help you separate your professional from your personal life.
Finding a balance between professional and personal life can be difficult, but it is certainly well worth the effort!!
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Moira Hutchison, Executive Contributor, Brainz Magazine
As an Intuition Cultivator and Mindset Mentor, Moira Hutchison guides her clients to access the inherent power they have available when they ignite their personal trinity of trust, inner awareness, and self-confidence. Moira works with professionals who feel that there is something better in life for them, but they have no idea how to access it. However, they have a yearning to be guided by their intuition and align with their unique calling. What makes her distinctive and different in this work is that she has developed the ability to take complex energetic, and spiritual ideas and interpret them in ways that people find easy to understand, integrate and implement.
