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Monday’s Tip (Top 10 Work Life Balance Tips): Disconnect. Many people voluntarily check their work email at all hours, and find themselves “multi-tasking.” For the vast majority of people, this is voluntary. Think hard about when and how you want to be connected outside of work hours.
Tuesday’s Tip (Top 10 Work Life Balance Tips): Reel Back Your Expectations. In real life it’s not possible to have it all, and people have to make adult decisions about what’s most important to them. The most successful people make these trade-offs in a way that fulfills them.
Wednesday’s Tip (Top 10 Work Life Balance Tips): Say “No”. You don’t actually have to be on every committee or project, and you might want to be selective with your volunteer activities. Contrary to popular belief, you CAN’T do it all.
Thursday’s Tip (Top 10 Work Life Balance Tips): Delegate. Find some things you can get off your plate, and get someone else to do them. What might be boring and routine for you, could be a stretch assignment that someone else might be able to pour some real energy into.
Friday’s Tip (Top 10 Work Life Balance Tips): Exercise Discipline. Just like being a performance athlete, it takes a lot of work to get into the shape you want to be in, and just as much work to maintain it. Stick with it – it’ll be worth it.
3 Things to remember about Top 10 Work Life Balance Tips:
1. The people who say this is easy are lying.
2. A lot of this pressure is self-imposed.
3. You can’t have it all –you will have to give up something.
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