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The desire to succeed often makes you give up enjoyable activities and socializing with friends in favor of work tasks. This can bring additional finances and promotions, but at the same time have a negative impact on health and life satisfaction. To prevent this from happening, it's important to find a balance between personal matters and career. Here are some tips to help you do just that.
1. Prioritize
To find a balance between your personal life and work, it is important to understand what is most important to you. Prioritizing your priorities will help you navigate unexpected situations and avoid conflicts of interest that can cause burnout and depression.
Make a list of the most important aspects of your life. It can include career success, time with your family, overcoming financial difficulties, hobbies and vacations, socializing with friends. Then rank the numbers from 1 to 10 in order of importance for each aspect. The resulting ranking will show your priorities and help you allocate your time properly when scheduling and planning tasks.
2. Fight procrastination
Procrastination is a frequent cause of life balance being out of balance. You don't have time for anything, which makes you put off pleasurable activities for later or rush to do what's important.
To stop procrastinating, try to deal with all the factors that distract you. At work, remove the bookmark with funny videos and social networks from your browser so that you can go there less often, and warn your colleagues that you are ready to have conversations only during breaks, as you have a lot of things to do.
At home, also abandon social media in favor of more enjoyable and previously scheduled activities. And also leave work stuff at the office - try not to look at emails before going to bed, or answer calls from coworkers when you're spending time with your family.
All of this will help you fight the habit of putting things off so that you can get them done on time and free up time for what's important to you.
3. Give up perfectionism
Many people develop a tendency to perfectionism from childhood, when they try to become excellent in all subjects at school. In adulthood, this habit can both help to achieve high results and lead to unpleasant consequences. Often perfectionism becomes toxic and affects not only the patterns of behavior that you adhere to, but also on the emotional state.
To avoid overload, burnout, and feeling like work is replacing your personal life, give up perfectionism. This doesn't mean that tasks need to be done the best way you can - it's important to learn to recognize when the pursuit of perfection gets out of control and takes up too much time and energy.
4. Learn to say “no”
The inability to say “no” is a frequent reason why people cannot find a balance between their personal life and career. They don't know how to say no to their boss and stay at work late, take extra shifts even though they are very tired, and fulfill the tasks of their colleagues. All this leads to the fact that relationships, favorite activities and interests are put on the back burner, which deteriorates the quality of life.
Learn to say “no” when you realize that a person's request will interfere with your personal business and tasks. Analyze how a service might affect your well-being and well-being before agreeing to do it. Also, consider whether it's worth it to help the person in front of you - some people basically don't deserve it.
5. Make a list of rules you'll follow
To find the best balance between your personal life and career, it is important not only to understand your priorities, but also to set rules that you will adhere to. This way it will be easier to make changes in your life and not forget about them in difficult situations.
Here's an example of a rule: only work the hours specified in your employment contract. Or rest at least half an hour a day. The more rules you set, the easier it will be to make a proper schedule and not forget about the things that are important to you.
6. Plan for breaks and rest
It's easy to get caught up in work and miss breaks and lunch. And when you're doing household chores, you often forget to take time for yourself and enjoy yourself. To avoid this, it's important to plan for breaks and rest. Put them on your daily to-do list and set alerts on your phone to remind you of them.
7. Ask others for help
Another problem that prevents you from finding the right balance between career and personal is the habit of doing everything on your own. You take on a maximum of tasks, and there may be no time left for pleasant and important things. To cope with this, don't hesitate to ask for help both at work and at home. Delegate some tasks to other employees or ask for teamwork to get them done faster and more efficiently. And at home, talk to your family about what you need help with so you have more time to do other things.
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