Yes, we know that it often seems like a mission impossible, but you know what? Making a balance between your personal and private life can definitely be achieved, so be sure to keep on reading if you want to learn how. Here are four useful tips on how to make that happen, so check them out and enjoy!
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Set your priorities in the first place
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Setting your priorities is one of the most essential steps towards making a perfect balance between your personal and professional life, which is exactly why you need to identify your priorities in the first place. Once you accomplish that, you won’t be conflicted about what’s most important to you in an urgent, nerve-racking situation. So, grab a pen and a piece of paper and start writing down the most important aspects of your life – family, work, spirituality, and romantic relationships, as well as being physically active, having a social life, and many more. When you write them down, make sure to rank them from the most important to the least important one, and you’ll quickly understand where your priorities lie. That will help you come up with your daily, weekly, and monthly schedules with more success.
Create a schedule and stick to it as much as possible
The next step is creating your schedule, which can be extremely helpful if you want to keep track of all activities and tasks that need to be done. For example, a weekly schedule is probably the best possible choice, so make sure to write down activities like work, classes, church, and other social activities that take place every week. Apart from these, you should also keep track of one-time events such as important birthdays and anniversaries. Once that’s done, you should come up with a daily schedule that consists of individual tasks sorted out based on your priorities. If there are too many activities on a daily basis, you can always highlight the most important tasks so that you don’t skip them under any circumstances.
Find a way to entertain your kids while you work
Keeping your kids entertained while you work can be an extremely challenging task, so be sure to plan it out to the tiniest detail. This is particularly important if you work from home, as it can get extremely chaotic – especially if your children are still too small and don’t understand that mommy has to work and not to play with them. The first way to keep your little ones entertained is to come up with a big box that includes crayons, a coloring book, stickers, clay, puzzles, and other toys age-appropriate toys. Just place that box near your workspace and let your kids play whenever you have to work. On the other hand, if you don’t live in an English-speaking area and you want your kids to start learning a foreign language from an early age, you can always sign them up for English classes in a nearby English learning center. They will be learning a new language while you’re working, which is basically killing two birds with one stone, right?
Learn to say ’no’
Last but certainly not least, learning to say ‘no’ is more beneficial than you can possibly imagine – even though it probably seems too rude or selfish at first. However, it’s everything but rude and selfish, as it’ll allow you to stick to your priorities instead of adding more tasks and responsibilities to an already packed schedule. Besides that, you’ll quickly learn that turning down different projects or other business requests is extremely liberating, and it’ll certainly help you lower your stress levels and feel much better in your own skin. Of course, you should show that you understand the significance of a particular request and give a brief explanation of why you’re rejecting it. Recommending an alternative is also a great way of helping other people without being perceived as rude, so do it and you won’t make a mistake!
As you can tell, making a balance between your personal and professional life doesn’t have to be as challenging as you probably thought. All you have to do is to stick to our tips and guidelines and you’ll make that happen, without a shadow of a doubt!
References:
https://www.wikihow.com/Balance-Your-Professional-and-Personal-Life
https://www.achieve-goal-setting-success.com/set-priorities.html
https://psychcentral.com/lib/learning-to-say-no/
About the author:
Claire Hastings is a wanderer and a writer. She writes as long as she can remember, and she is very passionate about fashion, running, other cultures, and her cat.