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OPINION
Balancing work and life
F inding time outside of work to enjoy your favorite hobbies, relax, recharge, and unwind can become increasingly difficult as you progress through your career and your list of responsibilities continues to grow. Strategies for successfully managing work-life balance and reclaiming your personal life while continuing to grow in your career.
High level positions often come with increased demands on your time and energy. Whether you are asked to develop a new piece of software, manage more clients, develop and train new employees, or are even tasked with opening a new office, you will quickly realize the amount of extra effort you are putting into the success of these projects can directly correlate with the lack of time you can make for yourself. Heavy workloads, tight budgets, and fast approaching deadlines can result in tunnel vision that makes it challenging to separate yourself from the work in front of you. While I am still relatively young in my career, I have had the good fortune of being surrounded by a number of incredible mentors who have spoken to me at great length about the effects of this sort of burnout and the consequences it had on not only their personal lives, but also on their careers as a whole. From my own personal experience, and the
conversations I have had with each of these mentors, here are three essential keys to success for managing work-life balance and reclaiming your personal life while you continue to grow in your career: 1. A time for work and a time for play. Being effective, efficient, and optimizing your time spent at the office is a critical step for creating a better work-life balance in your day-to-day life. A Gallup poll published in 2007 reported that U.S. workers claimed they waste nearly one-and-a-half hours a day during business hours. Now, with this being a self-reported metric, you can almost certainly guarantee that this number of “non-working hours” is slightly to seriously underrepresented. (Important to note, the world has also experienced a few slight changes since 2007. For example, Twitter launched in 2006 and was home
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