Piles of files on your desk, mountains of laundry at home and neglected friends will be a thing of the past in the future. With the right work-life balance and perfect time management, you can easily reconcile work, family and leisure. As a result, you will not only look relaxed and satisfied and have more time for yourself, but you will also be doing something for your health.
Aim for work-life balance
Some people just seem to get everything right. At work, they calm the irritable customer on the phone with angelic patience while they eat a fresh feta and fig field salad with honey dressing prepared at home on their neatly tidy desk.
After work, it’s off to the gym with their partner, then to pick up their perfectly behaved children and cook them a thoughtfully balanced 3-course meal in their spotless apartment. Despite work, family and leisure stress, people who have found their work-life balance manage to manage all areas of their lives optimally and look relaxed at the same time, seemingly effortlessly.
Bringing life into harmony
What often causes envy and incomprehension among friends and colleagues is not witchcraft. With a few simple tricks, anyone can succeed in balancing work and family life. The term work-life balance stands for a state in which professional and private life are in harmony. In view of a labor market in which 60-hour weeks are no longer expected only of executives and managers, and in which everyone is their own person, many people find it difficult to find time for relaxation and private life. The increasing fear for the job and the pursuit of money and career is more and more often at the expense of the family.
Simple living and downshifting
To oppose this trend, many movements have formed, some of them radical. “Simple living” or “downshifting,” for example, is a lifestyle that sees itself as an alternative to a consumerist society. Instead of seeing shopping as a leisure activity or entertainment, the adherents of this lifestyle shop in a planned and conscious way and distinguish between necessary purchases and pure desire. In this way, they free themselves from money, possessions and the fast-paced, stimulus-flooded society and concentrate again on the essential things in life.
Even some companies have now recognized that a good work-life balance has a positive effect on their employees. Therefore, more and more employees, for example teachers or university staff, have the opportunity to save up for a sabbatical year (sabbatical) by working overtime or various working time models.
Sabbatical instead of burnout
This results in a full year of paid vacation. Instead of being on the verge of “burnout,” employees usually return to work after this year refreshed, full of energy and full of new ideas. Companies can also contribute to the work-life balance of their employees by being family-friendly, offering company kindergartens, joint company outings, teamwork seminars and a friendly working atmosphere.
People who are relaxed and balanced, who feel good about their work and see it not as a necessary evil but as an important part of their lives, will also work more effectively and be more willing to put in a few hours of overtime from time to time. Once you have found this harmony, the only thing left to do is to organize all your tasks skillfully as well.
