A lot of people talk about maintaining work-life balance, but the actual balance ratios differ from person to person. Also, each side has its own components to balance.
On the personal side, you may need to balance between your spouse, children, parents, siblings, pets, etc. Each may have their own mini-balancing: balance attention between children, managing time between your parents and in-laws, etc. Plus, don’t forget yourself- you need to balance between eating, sleeping, exercising, meeting friends, hobbies, etc.
On the work side, if you’re an employee, you probably have to balance between various projects, the usual emergencies that come up, etc. If you’re a business owner, you have to balance between customers, business partners, employees, vendors, government compliance, and possibly even a board/investors.
Online, you've got visitors, search engines, protecting against bots and other bad actors, etc.
Inevitably, it seems that once you have finally found the right balance between all the competing interests, something comes up and throws the whole system out of wack!
For most of my life, I was very stressed trying to make everything balance and usually ended up shortchanging myself. These days, I’ve cut a lot of elements out of the equation (or at least seriously downsized their importance). I also try to make myself more of a priority.
How about you? Are you doing a good job balancing the things in your life? Do you make sure you keep yourself as a priority?
