How to Create Life/Work Balance

What do you do when you find yourself overwhelmed by your many roles and responsibilities? How do you handle the stress of balancing both a business and your family life? Often success in business depends on our ability to handle both.

Increasingly, the skills that contribute to your success in your business are the same skills you need to manage your home life and to achieve balance. 

Skills for balancing life/work

• Planning – set goals and priorities and establish a plan of action, plan for the unexpected.
• Organizing – save time and energy by making to-do lists, prioritize and combine activities and errands. Establish daily and weekly routines.
• Setting Limits – know your limitations and learn to say No. When you set limits you are better able to follow through on your commitments.
• Delegating – Find reliable, responsible people and share the load. Assign responsibilities, and practice letting go.
• Building Support Systems – reach out to others, build relationships, ask for help and hire experts when needed.

The key to creating balance in business, or in life, is to apply these skills when you need them and to use them effectively. The best way to do this is to practice using these skills daily and you will start to feel “in control.”

“Feeling in control increases your ability to cope and feel better about yourself and your business. The end result is that you will stay focused, be less stressful and more productive.” ~ Linda Coleman-Willis