Are you feeling overworked? Is finding the balance between work and the rest of your life not working out for you? Don’t get upset, you’re not alone. In this fast moving life we are surrounded by many pressures that we've to deal with every other day. Especially for urban working women, running a home and handling the tight deadlines at work can really be quite a task. Here are few suggestions that can be effective in maintaining a better balancing while playing both the roles.
1.Time Management: The time-waster in you steal your productivity in the form of reading email, net surfing, or making personal calls. As a result, you work overtime, more than 10 hours a day. You are way too busy to get off your desk for a lunch break, so you starve instead. You compromise on your social life to finish your monthly projections. By tracking your daily activities, you get to know how did you spend whole day and with such a practice of properly analyzing and scheduling, you can design your day according to your work load to manage your professional and social life better.
2.Use Technology: No doubt that personal habits and practices can be very effective in time management, but technology can also be yet another weapon in serving the same. There are several ways a busy executive can make technology more effective for his or her own use. For instance, Microsoft Outlook with Business Contact Manager can be very useful for you in organizing your contacts, with quick and easy access.
3.Leave Your Work at Work: When you go home after your working hours, focus on your family. There is very little that will be that much of an emergency that it can't wait until the next morning. Taking your works at home creates tension and makes you stressful even if you are lying on your bed at home, which will ultimately affect your family as well. Leave work at work.
4.Organize/Prioritize: In order to make the work-flow as smooth as possible, it's very important for you to organize every element of your daily life. According to experts, everything in your business should be set up using logical systems so anyone needing anything can find it when they need it. Selecting what's important and what can wait contributes a lot to the booking your time effectively. Emphasis should always be on trimming the essential from the secondary.
5.Don't Overbook: Don't pack your entire day full with meetings and tasks. Things don't always go as planned and you need some buffer. Hence, it is recommended to take sufficient amount of work so that you can handle them well. Otherwise, your work hours will get extended.
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