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BUSINESS SKILLS TIPS 19 – WORK LIFE BALANCE TIPS FOR HEALTH
Do you wake up in the morning feeling tired and stressed out, find it hard to face work? Chances are, you are burning out and need to take a break! Can’t spare the time, you say? Oh yes you can. It happened to me and my own doctor said that if I didn’t organise myself a break in my work schedules I was a candidate for a heart attack! Yes, that stopped me in my tracks and within a week I had organised myself a holiday and these work life balance tips will set you right too.
Don’t wait until everything falls apart. You owe it to yourself to take care of yourself. You owe it to you family to still be there for them – you owe it to your customers who rely on you to be fresh and eager to help them day after day.
How can you do that, you ask? Easy, learn to think more about the jobs you are doing and make sure that you are doing them well. Discover how long each task takes you to do, and be realistic about what you can manage to get through in a day. Often we are too engrossed in ‘getting our business up and running fast’, or ‘beating our competitors off the mark’, or ‘making more money to spend so the family won’t complain about you not being around for them’. Nonsense. Your health is more important than that! Your health is more important than anything else, because without it your business is doomed to fail.
Follow today’s bst, and try out a few of the tips mentioned so you can beat the odds, stay fit and healthy, have your family love you instead of resenting you or your business. Get a grip, plan a break and return to your business fresh, happy, relaxed and useful.
Work life balance tips are not just something for the others out there, the fastidious, studious, academic. It is for all businesspeople who want to be successful, so pay attention to it now and enjoy your business and your life.