You want to have the perfect life you have always dreamed of, in which you have a stable job with a high and stable income, in which you feel successful and able to travel from time to time, etc. At the same time, you live in constant anxiety caused by the society that expects you to do all this quickly, which is impossible. However, you can work on creating a balance between work and personal life. How can you achieve this?

• Limit on the tasks required from you: If you are an employee, make sure that you are not asked to do everything, especially if it is a task outside your field of work.

   

• Make a to-do list: write down your daily tasks, from the most important to the least important, as this helps you organize your time, so you don’t drown in work and forget your personal life.

   

• Set a weekly schedule: Planning helps you manage your time well when it comes to work plans or entertainment plans.

   

• Exercise: Try to make exercising a routine in your day, as it helps you improve your physical and psychological health, which increases your productivity.

   

• Sleep well: Lack of sleep can spoil or destroy your work schedule or your entire personal schedule.

   

• Make time for family and friends: Connecting with others is essential for your mental health, as it helps you activate your memory and improve your skills. Always remember that you have to make time for your family, friends, and relatives, and spend quality time with them.

   

• Join a social or sports club: This helps you commit and feel a sense of belonging to a group outside of your workplace and value your own time.

   

• Do what makes you happy: pick a hobby, and do something you love whenever you have free time.

   

• Travel or take days off: Traveling or even going on a vacation within your country play a major role in creating a balance between work and your personal life. They keep you away from the daily routine; they are a way to relax, take care of yourself and create time to do the things you love.

   

• Find a job you love: If you are in a negative work environment, and you feel that your job is stressing you out, you should change it so that you can maintain a work-life balance.

   

• Don’t let your work and personal life interfere: avoid working while spending time with your family, for example. Mixing work life and personal life creates a kind of exhaustion and the feeling that you spend all your time at work. Make sure that you set a specific time for work so that you don’t find yourself answering your email in the late evening, or working on your day off. Also, don’t allow your problems to affect your work, but you should stop thinking about them during working hours, and allocate time to solve them later.

   

• Take care of your mental health: It is very important to take care of your mental health, as it directly affects your work and personal life. Taking care of mental health includes many of the things mentioned earlier, such as communicating with others, doing the things you love, and going on vacations. But most importantly, know that you can seek help from psychologists when you feel you need it.

In the end, always remember that you are a human, not a “robot”, so it is important to take breaks and give your personal life valuable time.