How to Achieve a Healthy Work-life Balance?

Significance of Work-Life Balance

Work plays an integral role in all our lives. Our daily hard-work and earnings look after the fact that the lights stay on while munching on the favourite snacks on our comfortable sofas!

Considering the importance of work in this fast-paced and unforeseeable business world, achieving work-life balance is definitely not a piece of a cake. As we are more drawn to technology and social media deliberately or inadvertently, it is quite difficult to disconnect the work from our personal lives. It is no new thing to answer business calls or reply to emails at the dinner table, how is this desirable?

Why is there an imbalance in work and personal life?

They say – “Expectation Feeds Frustration”. It is the expectation that the employers have on us which compels us to work beyond the work hours to achieve great results. As a result, you are pressurized to work for longer hours, causing workplace burnouts with minimal family time.

Maintaining a wholesome work-life environment not only improves your mental and physical health but also improves your productivity and performance at your workplace. Stress and overworking can jeopardize not just your social lives but also your physical and mental well-being. Put simply, Health above all.

Therefore, it is extremely important that you take a break and figure out a way to balance your work and personal life so that you have major control over your focus and are able to concentrate on any task that is assigned to you. Wouldn’t you prefer working with a team that is well-focused than the ones worrying about work/home?

 Pro tips to boost your work-life balance:

●     It is okay to take some time off your work!

It is high time we realise that work is not everything and let’s not prioritise it over our social lives. Take a break and spend some quality time with your loved ones to recharge yourselves, so that you’re able to improve your productivity and focus while you return back to the office.

●     Plan short breaks throughout the working hours

Some of us are so determined to complete the tasks before the deadline that we don’t mind sitting in front of the system the entire day. Let us understand one thing- our body was clearly not designed to sit in front of the laptop and stare at the bright screen all day long!

Grab a cup of coffee and maybe you could interact with your teammates to relax your stressful mind.

●     Practice what you preach or else change the speech

Finally, if you have figured out to have a perfect work-life balance by not working on a weekend, yet you send out emails on a weekend creates a bad image about you and puts additional pressure on your co-workers. It is very important to respect the privacy of your teammates by not contacting them at odd hours. This will not only let you and your teammates switch off from work but also helps you to give your personal attention to your social lives.

As we are all going through a difficult time at present, it is very important we look after each other by being kind to people around us. Reach out to them if you think they need you. Our responsibility as privileged human beings must be to choose actions and thoughts based on the values received rather than personal gain.

Article by Deeksha Shetty

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