4 Tips for Maintaining a Healthy Work-Life Balance

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If you’ve been working from home during the pandemic, and if you’re going to continue to do so for a while longer, you’ve probably found that it’s harder than ever to make a clear line between work and free time. Maintaining a good balance between work and private life is incredibly important for our mental and physical health, and if that’s something you’re struggling with, here are four tips on how to achieve it.

Don’t be afraid to ask for help

Have you followed all the other advice, but it still feels like there aren’t enough hours in the day to get your work done, make time for your hobbies, and perform all your household chores? The solution is simple, but you might be inclined to feel like you should be handling all this by yourself. Well, you don’t have to. It’s fine to ask for help, and you deserve not to have to choose between free time and a clean house. Enlisting the help of a local maid service to help you out with cleaning might end up being a lifesaver with how much free time it will give you.

Have set work hours

If you work from home or if you’re self-employed or run your own business, it can be hard to know when to stop working. It might even be that you have a position where you’re expected to do a lot of overtime and perform some tasks outside of your regular working hours. If any of these things apply to you, make sure to set some working hours for yourself. Work a certain amount of hours between specified times on specific days. If you have more conventional employment but find yourself doing a lot after work, then choose how long and when you will do those. Maybe it’s an hour or two in the evening, and apart from that you won’t be answering any emails or phone calls or perform anything extra. That time’s only for you.

Plan your time

Speaking of working hours, planning your time is just good in general and it’s really going to help you out. Scheduling things based on their importance and urgency, and deciding beforehand how much to do every day, is a great way to make sure you don’t end up taking too much on. It also serves as a good off-switch and lets you know just when you’re allowed to stop working every day. You can kick back and relax knowing you’ve done enough for today, because everything’s going according to plan and you know you will get to your other responsibilities in time.

Make time for your hobbies

When you’re planning out your day or your week, don’t only plan for work. Give yourself some time in the evenings, or longer periods during the weekend, to do something you like to do. Do you want to go to the gym regularly? Do you want to have time to read before bed every night? Put it into your schedule so that you know you have time for it and don’t feel guilty about treating yourself. Making time for the things you enjoy is crucial to a good work-life balance.

Follow the tips above and you’ll get so much more enjoyment from your home and work life.