Work-Life Balance – Do you have it?

Some of you dream about it.

Others of you crave it.

But, for most of you, it’s hard to have it.

What does work-life balance even mean?

I think the definition is different for everyone. But, for me, it’s being able to spend the amount of time I WANT with my friends and family, as well as the amount of time I WANT on my career. For others, it might mean something entirely different.

Wikipedia describes it this way:  Work–life balance is a concept including proper prioritizing between “work” (career and ambition) and “lifestyle” (health, pleasure, leisure, family and spiritual development/meditation). This is related to the idea of lifestyle choice.

Yep, a “lifestyle choice.”

So, if you are one of those people looking for this type of “lifestyle choice,” I want to encourage you to …

GO FOR IT!

You can absolutely have a more balanced work-life type of style.

Here are the 3 Simple Ways to Have Better Work-Life Balance Now:

• Stop thinking of work and life as two different things.

For years, I believed that during the week day, I had my “work” and during the evenings, weekends and vacations, I had my “life.” I wrote about that here. They don’t have to be two different parts of you.

You can have work be your life – or the other way around – LIFE can be your work.

If you combine your work and your life by doing something you love, from where you love, at the times you love for both work and life, you can instantly know when they are out of balance.

Put another way – It’s easier to divide something the way you want when you have everything in the same bucket. When it’s all in the same bucket and you take more time than you planned on one portion, you instantly recognize that the other portion is getting less.

• Choose “work” that accommodates your “life.”

Work can, if you want, be an extension or even an expression of your life. If you can find a way to work doing something that excites you or defines you, it’s a win for you all the way around.

I chose to work remotely online doing what I love.

I can work from where I want, when I want, doing what I want. My life and work are intermingled and I balance them in the way that fits me best.

You can do the same thing!

• Know that YOU can make a change to be more balanced.

Just because you’ve always worked a 9-5 job in a cubicle somewhere, working overtime several nights a week, and skipping special events because you couldn’t get off work in time – doesn’t mean it has to stay that way.

YOU can make the change for a life balanced the way YOU want – not the way some corporation tells you it will be balanced.

Think about what is truly important to you in this life.

Can you make money and spend more time on what’s important to you?

 YES! YES! YES!

Want to learn the steps to take?