{"id":3191,"date":"2025-06-04T07:56:27","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T07:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/training.thevirtualhub.ph\/sandbox\/t9\/?p=3191"},"modified":"2025-06-12T11:32:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T11:32:06","slug":"jacquelyn-ten-tips-for-a-better-work-life-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/training.thevirtualhub.ph\/sandbox\/t9\/2025\/06\/04\/jacquelyn-ten-tips-for-a-better-work-life-balance\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacquelyn – Ten tips for a better work-life balance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Work Smarter, Live Better: 10 Tips for a Balanced Life<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Struggling to juggle work and personal life? These ten practical tips will help you create a healthier, more balanced routine that supports both productivity and well-being. The following may factors affecting employee productivity<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tip #1 Step away from the email<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Earlier this year, a report circulated that a French law banned employees from checking work emails after 6pm<\/a>. It wasn\u2019t true but fitted with our notion of the French as a nation of slackers favouring long lunches, five-day weekends and plenty of slap and tickle while les rosbifs<\/em> carried on working through the night. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Tip #2 Just say no<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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If you\u2019re available 24\/7 to your boss\u2019s \u2013 with all due respect \u2013 increasingly loopy and unremitting demands, and you\u2019re the kind of person who as a result gets overloaded, try harnessing the power of no. Allen advises: \u201cIf you tend to say yes without thinking when you\u2019re asked to do something extra, stall. Don\u2019t answer straight away. Say you\u2019ll get back to the person asking, then use that time to think clearly about whether to say yes or no.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Tip #3 Work smarter, not harder<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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There is a body of opinion that you should work more and sleep less<\/a>. It often takes Margaret Thatcher as a role model: she only needed four hours sleep and look what she did to the country! These days they call it sleep hacking<\/a> \u2013 training your mind and body to need less sleep. But that trend is all wrong, argues US academic Matt Might in his work-life balance blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Tip #4 Leave work at work<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Imagine you\u2019re just about to leave your workplace, possibly for cocktails at TGI Fridays, even though it\u2019s actually Tuesday. Before you do, write a note to yourself listing outstanding tasks or any work things that are on your mind. \u201cThen shut the diary, turn off your PC, store your message and leave it.<\/em>\u201d counsels Allen. \u201cFocus on the image of shutting the diary, saving the message or turning off your PC.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Tip #5 Forget about perfection<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The injunction to put work away for the day sounds fine, but hold on. It\u2019s surely not as simple as that. As you leave work, you realise you haven\u2019t done something as well as you could. You turn on your heel and go back to do it right. Is that so very wrong? \u201cWell,\u201d says Allen, \u201csome people find it very hard to let things go.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Tip #6 Don\u2019t be a martyr<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cThere is also the tendency I come across where somebody will say, \u2018I have to do everything round here,\u2019\u201d says Allen. \u201cTo feel like a martyr gives some people a great deal of pleasure \u2013 they feel they\u2019re powerful and busy.\u201d And what\u2019s wrong with that? \u201cIt\u2019s worth thinking about how infuriating that is for other people.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Tip #7 Ease off the adrenaline
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Do you need the rush of adrenaline all the time, whether it\u2019s at the gym, in the sack or at the coalface of paid employment? \u201cYou really ought to monitor that,\u201d says Allen. \u201cYou need to ask yourself how well your life is really going. What happens often is that those hooked on adrenaline hop from one rush to another \u2013 from one task to another, from work to gym. What\u2019s that like for your family and friends to be around? Not much fun, especially when you crash \u2013 which inevitably you will.\u201d
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Tip #8 Think about retirement<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cSome people are wedded to work, especially if they\u2019re self-employed,\u201d says Allen. \u201cBut I get them to ask themselves: if work is the only thing you do, then what happens if you lose your job or if your business fails? I don\u2019t underestimate the difficulties of putting work back in its box at a time of austerity, but I try to encourage my clients to think of it this way: for most people there will be gaps in employment. What do you do then? <\/p>\n<\/div>

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Tip #9 Make \u2019em wait<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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One way to avoid being incessantly available is to make it clear to your colleagues that you will reply to emails within 24 or 48 hours. \u201cAs long as you\u2019re reliable about replying in the end, it\u2019s surprising how little this bothers people,\u201d argues Oliver Burkeman, author of Help! How to Become Slightly Happier and Get a Bit More Done<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Tip #10  Set your own rules<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cYou really need to find your own work-life balance, probably with the help of others,\u201d says Allen. \u201cThe important thing is to ignore the shoulds \u2013 the shoulds that comes from other people or from you internalising others\u2019 mindsets. You have to rely on your own intuition.\u201d
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