How do I balance my work and social life?
You don't. You live your life. I don't believe in work life balance or work social life balance. Life is life.We all make decisions that impact the other parts of our lives . So personal decisions impact your work and work decisions impact your non work life.The work life balance approach seems to me to imply work is secondary to the rest of your life and should be squashed into as small a part of the overall as possible.Whilst being a workaholic is not to be advised I do think work is important. Obviously it pays the bills but more than that it offers challenge, you have to work with people you wouldn't otherwise meet, you have to communicate with people in very different ways than you do in other areas of life. Work can provide a focus and a sense of direction, meaning and achievement.So rather than separating life into social and work I would look at your life as a whole. I would ask questions about the whole of your life such asHow do I want to live my life?What are my values and how do I live by them?What sort of person do I want to show up as?What is my ideal sort of life?What sort of relationships do I want with friends family and colleagues?How do I want to develop and grow?These to me are much more useful questions.
How's life as a graduate student? How do you balance work, social life and fun?
By being aware of what is important for you, your health, your relationships and your work to be happy and healthy.You know what makes you fullfiled - strive to do daily small things that create happiness for yourself.When the time table gets out of hand, analyze, adjust and cut out everything that drags you down and saps your energy - people, situations, time wasters and unnecessary activities.Self-reflection, awareness, self-responsibility and accountability, discipline, reason, some planing, constant learning, putting healthy boundaries are key.Assess in which direction you steer your lifeship to. Do this at least once a week. You are the captain of your life.Best wishesSharesz T. Wilkinson
What are some keys to work/Life balance?
You decide what work-life balance means for you. I work a little bit every day and every night, every day of the week. Some people prefer to work Mon-Fri and be off of work completely for the weekends.You decide when you will be available and hold firm to that. If you don't want to work or answer emails/texts after 10 PM, put your phone away or set yourself to "away."When it's time for fun and vacation, don't touch any messages from work. They'll survive. If they can't handle it and let you truly enjoy your time away, find a new job.
How is work life balance in E&Y?
From EY GDS perspective.A generalized answer would be, quite good.Your job is to get the job done whatever it takes and not run by the clock, so you may sometimes work late and sometimes leave early. Rush times are quite limited.However, all of it depends on your service line. Few service lines have like 20 days per quarter of heavy work and rest of the time is completely opposite. In some it’s in balance all through out. And in most, as mentioned there’s few rush days and few are relaxed ones often the latter one is comparatively more in number. Within a service line it again depends on your project as few projects are demanding and don’t forget your designation counts too, if you’re senior then obviously you’re expected to lead & monitor your stream of work which means more work than others in same project stream.
How do I find work-life balance?
I’m not sure we can ever find a *perfect* balance—so much depends on how demanding our job is, and on the other end, how demanding our family/non-work life is. What we can do is make an effort to cut out everything that either isn’t necessary or doesn’t really make us happy or fulfill us. Doing this gives us more time to dedicate to the things that really matter. Paring down to what matters makes us feel like our lives contain more space—we feel freer, more relaxed, less hectic.For me, what worked was to make a YES LIST—a list of the things I *had to do* (like work, laundry, housework) or *wanted to do* (like seeing certain friends, reading, exercising), and then to write out a separate NO LIST—a list of time-killing activities and people that didn’t make the first list. I didn’t want to continue filling my precious spare hours on things that ultimately weren’t important to me. My job made the YES LIST of course, because I needed to work. My husband made it too, as did my children, exercising, and certain good friends. But distant acquaintances didn’t make it, nor did any task that took me away from my family in the evenings (school/church/civic committees, for example, or certain volunteer positions). After I made the lists, it became so much easier for me to guard my limited free time. When someone asked me to join a certain committee or go to dinner, etc, I would mentally scan my YES and NO lists—if the requested activity wasn’t on the YES LIST, I gave my polite regrets and kept the hour or evening for the things I had decided were more important to me.Once I had pared down my life to only those things on my YES LIST, my work/life balance seemed pretty good. My life was no longer bursting at the seams with obligations and social events that made me feel rushed but didn’t make me feel fulfilled. I had narrowed things down to what really mattered, and in doing that, I allowed myself to add some space to my days and weeks. Suddenly, my life felt easier, and far more balanced.
Do you support a work / life balance?
Work is part of life. If you’re asking whether I support balancing other parts of life with work, then sure. What’s not to support?However, if I’m honest, I work more than I play. Except that my work is play. How’s that for circular reasoning?
Work-Life Balance: How do I fix my extreme over-reliance on work as a source of meaning?
Learn to let it go. I don't know if that is easy for you or hard. But do your best to let it go.Make appointments and do something else. Yes, make yourself take breaks.Exercise at the gym. Draw something. Write poetry. Do knitting. Do pottery. Do photography. Fly kites. Collect postcards, coins, ceramic cats or coffee cups. If you don't like any of the ideas, find a better one. I'll bet you could find a better one.I'm an Aspie. I find myself getting stuck in a pattern. I can get addicted to things ... such as this website called Quora.But if you want to get more out of life, pretend that you've made an appointment to do something else. Or whatever mental technique works for you.I hope I've helped.Thanks for the A2A, User.