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5 Tips how to find your personal and career balance

5 Tips how to find your personal and career balance

Since the Coronavirus pandemic, the boundaries between work time and family time have blurred even more. If you have worked or still work from home you have the advantage of a more flexible schedule but this is not necessarily a good thing if you don’t know how to organise yourself effectively and set healthy boundaries.

We all want to live a balanced life and optimally combine career with family life and social relationships. Ideally, the 24 hours of the day should be optimally divided into 8 hours of work, 8 hours of sleep and 8 hours for yourself, your family, recreational and administrative activities (shopping, eating, cleaning the house, etc).

Unfortunately this balance is precarious and almost impossible to achieve. This is because work often requires 9 to 10 hours a day (including lunch breaks and transport). When you have children things get even more complicated because we have to do even more housework than in a family without children.

In this article we give you some ideas on how you can optimise your schedule so that you can more easily find and keep a balance between career and family.

1. Identify what your personal values are and what is most important to you year after year.

Maybe at 25 the priority is to develop your career and learn more about your job. If the focus is on the professional area, you can easily allocate 10 hours a day to this. If you are 35 and have a young child, you may already have other values. If family comes first and you can afford it financially, then you can even apply to resign to devote yourself to your family. If you put your career first, you can apply for the insertion incentive and return to work a few months after the birth.

2. Act in harmony with your personal values.

Do more of what is important to you! Yes, you can work part-time or change your job to one closer to home. Or integrate recreational activities into your chosen profession. There are people who enjoy and relax doing my job and earning money from it. They are the lucky ones who enjoy this balance.

3. Seek help for those activities that you don’t enjoy and that require a lot of your time.

For example, you can get someone to help you clean the house or ask grandparents to drive your child to and from school. Don’t be stubborn enough to do it all yourself! Sooner or later you will end up with burn-out.

4. Learn to say no!

Set limits both at work and in relationships with loved ones. When you are asked to stay overtime say no. When a neighbour asks you for a meeting at the block, say no. When anyone or anything seems to “steal your time” learn to say no elegantly. Think of a no as a yes to you or your family.

5. Take time off, go on vacation…

Take days off, go on holiday, develop hobbies that relax you and give you a sense of well-being and control over your life. It’s essential to keep weekend days for relaxation and connecting with family and friends. A hobby helps you develop your creativity and connect with yourself. You can choose to read, paint or play sports! The important thing is to do something weekly to nourish your soul.

These are just a few things you can do to live in balance, to be well with yourself and those around you.

Personal and professional development will help you work more productively and for more money, have harmonious relationships and enjoy who you are and what you have!

You can find and keep balance in your life but you will only see it on the outside when you find balance within yourself!

Good luck!

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