Healthy work-life balance
Balancing your professional and personal life can be challenging, but it’s vital
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Here are five positive effects a balanced lifestyle can have:
1. Less stress
When you strive to achieving better harmony, it can help you to feel less stressed. Creating more
balance allows you to deal with your day-to-day stresses in a healthy, more manageable way.
2. Increased productivity and creativity
Stress and burnout can start to have an impact on the quality of your work. A balanced approach to work, where you regularly switch off, can leave you feeling more refreshed and, ultimately, being more productive. Removing constant stress also creates space for new ideas and may lead to clear, more creative thinking.
3. Greater sense of well-being
Ultimately, a balanced life is often a healthier life. A better balance between work and life priorities can lead to greater life satisfaction and overall well-being. If and when you feel like you’re making time for all the things that matter to you, you may feel like you’re truly being moresuccessful.
4. Lower risk of burnout
Feeling overworked and overburdened by work responsibilities, can lead you to being emotionally exhausted and becoming detached from both your work and your personal life. Improving the balance between work and personal priorities lowers this risk of burnout.
5. Higher retention rate
Finally, for any managers and employers reading this, note that balanced workers are happier workers. Research by Oxford University also found that happy workers are more productive.