The Importance of Balancing Work and Home Life

It is important to make sure that you are getting the most out of both parts of your life. Obviously, when you neglect work duties and focus on leisure activities you will soon notice when you don’t have the money to pay bills. But making sure that you don’t spend too much time working is just as important. If you spend one hundred percent of your awake time working, every single day of the week, you’ll not only become boring, as the old saying goes, you will begin to find it harder to summon motivation about work projects and such.

So before you find yourself slumped and drained of energy, take a moment to consider if a five or ten minute break might put all your perspective right again. It has been shown that, depending on the person, the human brain needs a break from monotonous thinking every sixty to one hundred twenty minutes. SO maybe pushing on and making yourself crank out another hour of work before you take a break isn’t always the most productive decision. And you’ll certainly be happier taking more frequent breaks.

Some of the areas of life and wellbeing that can be affected by neglecting your home life are health and fitness when it comes to nutrition and exercise. The first things to be sacrificed when we begin to focus more on our work lives is good eating habits and exercise. I recently read an article that talked about the interesting idea of incorporating standing, desk treadmills into offices.

Other interesting features of this article were different perspectives of how to incorporate fitness into our busy schedules. For example, if you spend your lunch hour going to the gym, you’re spending time driving, changing and showering for a whopping total of twenty to thirty minutes of exercise. Whereas walking at a non-sweaty pace of one mile an hour doubles your metabolic rate. And a rate of two miles per hour triples the metabolic rate.

Armed with this kind of info, it’s easy to see how simple decisions can make all the difference when it comes to getting exercise without disrupting your already hectic lifestyle. The next time you have a meeting with another co-worker, suggest that you stroll around the hallways if you’re in a larger office building, or outside for smaller offices, while you talk about what needs to be discussed. It is very possible to work this mild form of exercise into daily life and reap the rewards of better health and a smaller waistline.

Another aspect of home life that tends to suffer when to much emphasis is placed on work is that of the family. Our family and its members are very important to us, and the reason that we go out into the world and make a living to bring home. Though families need to be understanding about this role and responsibility’s demands, we must also be sure that we are not absent from our family members’ lives.

Take some time to talk with your family members. Just as you schedule for meetings and tasks that need to be accomplished for work, so can you set aside time for little outings and quality time with your children and spouse. You’ll feel that much more satisfied and assured that your family is happy with the arrangement too.

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