Do You Have True Work Life Balance???
June 29th, 2011 // 1:19 pm @ admin
There are many tips on how to achieve proper work life balance, but these tips don’t apply if one’s career is draining on their life as a whole. Work – life balance is not just about being able to properly prioritize between our career and personal life on a daily basis. It is also about having our enjoyment for both our career and personal life spill into each other. As this happens our positive energy from our career brings more energy to our personal life and vice versa. When we are simply tolerating our jobs it drains our energy and takes away from the enjoyment that we experience in our personal lives.
There are many different ways to determine whether your job is draining the energy out of your personal life. The following are four ways to know:
- You frequently feel completely drained of all energy to do anything else by the time you get home from work.
- On Sunday afternoons, you find yourself in a bad mood immediately after the thought of going into work the next day.
- You notice that your relationship with friends and family is suffering.
- You find that you are neglecting other areas of your life due to work.
If you can relate to the above examples, consider whether it is worth sacrificing your personal life for your job.
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