If you telecommute or take classes online, you will find it more efficient for students or telecommuters to work in local libraries, cafes and maker communities. You can leave the environment after completing the task, and the environment can help you switch to your personal life.
If you have to work from home, try to make room for work. You can set up a special home office or make room at the dining table. It doesn't matter to work somewhere else once in a while.
If you work in a traditional office, you must try to relax, so that you can turn from work to personal life after work. For example, you can listen to music or audio books on your way home, exercise in the gym, or call your friends to chat.
2. Set the priority. Keeping a balance between professional life and personal life is like walking a tightrope. If you want to go smoothly, you must prioritize things. In this way, at a critical moment or in an emergency, you don't have to worry about which thing is the most important.
List the most important things in life, which can be family, emotional relationship, work or spiritual life, or volunteer activities, staying active, maintaining social circles or other hobbies.
Take a good look at this list and put these things in order. The most important thing comes first, the second important thing comes second, and so on. Your ranking allows you to prioritize things. In this way, you can put the most important things into your schedule and weekly plan.
3. Make a timetable and strictly abide by it. If a week has passed in a daze and you can't remember what you have accomplished, then you should spend a week recording everything you have done. At the end of this week, you will know better how to arrange different work or study tasks, personal activities or errands in your schedule.
The most helpful way is to make a weekly plan covering all daily affairs, including work, class, church, social activities and other one-time activities. Then, according to your priorities, make a personal to-do list for the next day every night.
The agenda should highlight the three most important tasks that need to be completed that day (except work or school). It can be a work task, such as giving a report, or a personal task, such as going to the dentist or watching my daughter's ballet performance.
If you think this list is too restrictive, you might as well make two lists, one is the three major work or academic tasks, and the other is the three major family tasks. As long as you finish these three to six tasks every day, you can spend the day efficiently.
4. Deal with delays. Procrastination is a big obstacle to balancing work and personal life. Because you always put things off until the last minute, your work and personal life will interfere with each other. This causes you to work late or get distracted by personal affairs at work.
One way to overcome procrastination is to write down your original intention of studying, taking a career path or doing other things. For example, if you want to help others, you might as well keep in mind the inherent mission when dealing with tasks: these tasks can help you achieve the purpose of helping others. Make a list of reasons for doing things, post them at work, and have a look when you lack motivation.
Another way to overcome procrastination and accomplish tasks is to break down big tasks into small ones. Doing so can make the whole big task look less terrible, and you will be more and more motivated in the process of gradually completing the small task.
5. Eliminate distractions. You will be surprised if you know how many distractions are eating up your time and reducing your efficiency. Research estimates that most people spend 20 minutes an hour dealing with things that distract their plans. As a result, it takes them two whole hours every day to refocus. If you can try to eliminate things that distract you from your work, you can prevent them from invading your personal life after work. Try the following techniques to eliminate interference:
Focus on important tasks instead of urgent ones-urgent tasks require you to react passively, and important tasks require you to take the initiative.
Turn off the notification function of the mobile phone or computer.
Keep the office tidy and orderly.
Put away your mobile phone.
Close programs that are not commonly used in the computer.
Drink water during regular breaks (to prevent sitting for a long time, don't prepare a large cup, take a small cup to the drinking area. This is ANPA's experience), eat snacks or go to the toilet, and try not to interrupt your work.
6. Be creative. No matter how hard you try to keep your balance, there are always two urgent things coming together. At this time, you should learn to be creative, think of possible ways to deal with emergencies, and deal with another thing at the same time.
For example, maybe you have to work overtime every week and can't go out with your partner. Then, you might as well deliberately create a romantic atmosphere with candles at dinner, or find an evening to sit on the sofa with your partner and watch carefully selected movies. Doing so won't take up too much of your time, and it can also prevent your partner from feeling left out.
In order to reduce your workload, you can cancel those big projects or share the work with colleagues. If you can't reduce the workload, plan how to use your lunch break to visit the park with your family, or take your family to the company's picnic and group building activities.