4 ways to get rid of the feeling that you are missing a balance between work and personal life

Do not separate work and personal life

Work - is also a life, and life - work, too, it is all one. Life does not stop when you come to the office, and the work does not end when you decide to take the time to "private life."

Sometimes at work you happen to be engaged in interesting things that you like and make it possible to feel meaningful and purposeful. Sometimes, even when you are the most favorite things, you have to perform something not very pleasant, something painful and humiliating.

One can not ignore the emotional extremes, so foolish to think that any job is painful, but the fact that it is not always a pleasant experience. Follow pendulum, concentrate on one task at hand and perform it well, to the best of your ability. Exert every effort and to what you like, and to what is unpleasant.

To most of the time I feel happy and free man, controlling his own life, you must choose professionWhich will be your passion that will feel as a vocation and even entertainment. In this case, you do not have to distribute work and personal life on different poles.

Combine them as much as possible. Enjoy your work when you get home, go on business trips in the vacation. Instead of waiting for one big pensions at the end of life, organize a "mini-retirement" all year round. "Work" longer and longer, but just because you like it, because you want to leave your mark on the history and achieve something.

Do not separate the house and office are brought to "work" the family, do the work of his hobbies. Instead of thinking that you will get tired at work, and on holiday - relax, be always mobile, connect the travel, work and personal life.

Break the rigid structure imposed by society, and create your own, suitable to your life as you see it. Even if you become obsessed with how it is with most interested in their work and successful people, you still do not have to sacrifice for the sake of time spent with family or friends.

Why share a pleasant person to "work friends" and "friends of the family"? Why not combine them all? All living now, at this moment, you do not need to have anything to delay or balance. Do not share time on weekdays and weekends. Any thing is appropriate anytime, anywhere.

Have a clear idea about all his life, and about what you want from it

Find something, than you will be obsessed with something, than you can not deal with that will give you a sense of purpose and self-respect, something important for others. If the case does not meet these requirements - throw it. Do not seek to do everything for everyone.

Discard the excess. Allow yourself to extremes become a man, is very focused on your goals and extremely absent-mindedly looking at everything else.

Work is no longer perceived as a job when you are doing what you are, for your confidence, should be doing that promises money and has implications for people. Work ceases to be such when your profession becomes really interesting you deal with.

If you know precisely what you want to be when you face so big and worthwhile goal that each morning you get up motivated and happy - is it possible to call any business operation that you have to?

Give up all the things that are of no importance to you

When you throw the case, it is called a weakness. Rejecting from the worthy purpose, which you have almost reached, you will feel the short-term relief, but later regret the decision.

Indeed, when you give up something at an early stage, faced with the first problem - this often indicates weakness. This may indicate a lack of vision and long-term perspective. Take up the case again, and again, and again - a guaranteed way to achieve nothing and spend a lot of time.

But sometimes the desire to stop indicates that this activity is really for you is not so important. Why continue to do something simply because the failure will appear weak, or because you have almost reached the goal, which does not mean anything to you?

I decided to study to become an architect, and two weeks later realized that it was not what I wanted to do. 154 following week I kept going because I do not want to totally unfamiliar to me people would talk behind my back, that I surrendered. They do not even know me, so why it was important to their opinion? It is very strange. I was foolish not to stop in time. Less than three years cost me nearly six years of missed opportunities, which is likely to lead me to something significant.

Give up now from all that does not matter. Just stop.

You will not die, unless it comes to medication. Give up on what you will never succeed. Give up the things that you hate, but how do you think should be done. Conversely, never give up on something that is important to you, simply because it has become difficult.

Vision, consciousness and wisdom come from understanding the difference between important and unimportant. Where you are: on the verge of goalsThat is important to you, or somewhere in the middle of the road to nowhere?

Stand aside and say "no"

Do not do something, or do not get someone just because other people expect from you this. public pressure tedious and inconsistent.

Frees itself from the unimportant things that are not associated with your vision and values.

Leave it to others (somebody may like it and it is quite pan out). Step aside. Let them go, let them fly. And do not try to control what they do.

You will feel free, when it becomes unnecessary to abandon the affairs acknowledge that just do not know how, and put free time, energy and passion into something significant that will be important for you and for those you love and who seek give benefit.

Whatever you say or do, people still condemn you, because what you say and do whatever you think is right, not forgetting, however, about the tact and modesty.

The material is prepared based on the book "The principle of the lever». It will be interesting to those who want to get more done in less time, get rid of the routine and create your ideal lifestyle.

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