Work-Life Balance
Life can get pretty hectic and sometimes it might feel like juggling work and your personal life is impossible. While challenging, finding a balance between your job and your life life is critical for your overall happiness and wellbeing.
When time spent at work starts to seep into other areas of your life, it can lead to stress, burnout, and feelings of anxiety. However hard it may seem, protecting your time allows you to step back, recharge, and fill your cup with activities and people that bring you joy. This week, we’re sharing tips and ideas to help anyone achieve a better work-life balance.
SELECTED RESOURCES
Four Easy Ways to Create Work-Life Balance
By Leo Bierman M.S., L.Ac
Time is one of our most precious resources, and if you are going to have more conscious control over how you use your time, you need to be able to manage your work so that it supports your life rather than taking it over. In this article, you can read about quick and actionable things you can do to create more balance in your life.
Find Balance Between Your Ambition and Wellbeing to Reach Your Potential
On Purpose with Jay ShettyÂ
Everyone says that to start that successful business or make that dream promotion, you have to work harder and longer than anyone else. But is that sustainable? Is there a way you can achieve success without burning out? On this episode of On Purpose, Jay Shetty outlines 5 simple ways to succeed in your dream career while thriving in your life.
Listen to the 30-Minute Podcast Here
6 Ways to Improve Your Health and Wellbeing at Work
Mind ToolsÂ
Did you know that most of us spend 13 hours a day sitting down?
All of this inactivity has the potential to cause serious health problems. But, it can be hard to stay fit and healthy when you have a sedentary job. Watch this quick video to learn how you can improve your health and wellbeing at work.
How More Rest Makes Better Work with Alex Pang
The Braincare Podcast
Alex Pang wants you to nap more. The founder of The Restful Company and visiting academic at Stanford University, has written numerous successful books that explore the powerful connection between peak performance and rest. Today on The Braincare Podcast, Alex explains why successful high-performers actively seek rest – from Beethoven to Barack Obama. We learn why napping isn’t just for pre-schoolers, how Salvador Dali exploited his creative subconscious, and why we can actually get more work done by doing less.
Listen to the 15-Minute Podcast Here
ASSESSMENT
Is it Job Stress or Burnout?
Job stress here and there is normal, but if you’ve been feeling tired physically and emotionally more than usual or feel that you “can’t take it anymore”, you may be burned out. Burnout is associated with physical, emotional, and mental exhaustion and negative feelings about your job or work productivity. Burnout is not just specific to people with jobs—students and anyone with a high workload or non-supportive work environment can be affected too.
Take our assessment to see if you’re experiencing burnout with your current work. Afterward, check out our expert-curated resources to help with any current symptoms and prevent future burnout.
