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From Stressed to Best: How Work-Life Balance Can Boost Your Health and Happiness

November 13, 2024

In today’s fast-paced world, having a solid work-life balance isn’t just nice—it’s essential. Striking that balance helps you do well at work, grow personally, and keep your health in check. Managing your time wisely makes you more productive and leaves you with enough energy to enjoy life outside the office. Not sure how to achieve more balance? Here are some ideas.

Coaching is a great way to achieve better balance. As a coach, Jenny serves as a success partner, strategist, and personal advocate. We focus on YOU and on being proactive.

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How Balance Improves Your Work Quality

Creating balance isn’t only about cutting back on work hours; it’s about using your time off in a way that keeps you feeling refreshed. By setting manageable hours and making room for downtime, you can avoid burnout and stay mentally sharp. This extra mental clarity lets you tackle work with a fresh perspective and makes problem-solving and creativity a lot easier—skills that are valuable in any career.

You may have noticed a renewed energy and motivation after a weekend. We aren’t machines; we need downtime!

Coaching is a great way to impact your work-life balance. It brings clarity, vision, and prevents burnout. As a coach, Jenny serves as a success partner, strategist, and personal advocate. She focuses on YOU and on being proactive.

Thriving Through Free Time

More free time opens doors to personal growth you might miss with a packed work schedule. Picking up a hobby, learning something new, or even just catching up on reading can have a big impact. These activities provide a refreshing counterbalance to work. They can actually make you better at your job by boosting your mental health and giving you a broader perspective.

Being well-rounded isn’t just rewarding; it also makes you better equipped to handle challenges in both work and life. It enriches your life. Especially hobbies you can share with others like music, art and dance.

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Boosting Career Prospects through Education

Earning a degree can be a game-changer for your career, leading to a less stressful, more fulfilling work life. Online degrees give you the flexibility to continue your education while balancing work and family.

Specializations like managerial accounting or learning a computer programming language offer skills that are in demand, equipping you for roles in structured, intellectually engaging fields. Continuing your education doesn’t just elevate your qualifications; it also helps you maintain a healthy balance between career and personal life.

Time Management: The Key to Balance

Good time management is a huge part of work-life balance. By organizing your tasks and setting priorities, you can keep work from creeping into your personal time. Setting realistic goals, focusing on priorities, and delegating where possible are all time-savers.

Mastering these skills means less wasted time and more productive work hours, leaving room for the rest and relaxation you need for a balanced life. Trainings like Jenny’s Make Time Your Ally workshop will help you sharpen these skills.

Avoiding Burnout to Boost Health

Keeping a work-life balance can reduce the risk of burnout, which is physical, emotional, and mental exhaustion from prolonged stress. Setting boundaries between work and personal time protects your health, allowing you to handle responsibilities on both fronts with a clear mind. Reducing burnout isn’t just about feeling better; it also boosts your productivity and helps you stay engaged with your work over the long haul.

Stay Focused with Regular Breaks

Regular breaks are essential to staying focused. When you balance work with downtime, you give your brain the rest it needs to recharge, which helps you stay sharp during work hours. This improved focus translates to higher productivity and better work quality, linking a balanced lifestyle directly to career success.

Work-life balance is the key to a happy and successful life. By making it a priority, you’ll boost your productivity, improve your health, and create time for personal growth. Recognize the benefits of a well-rounded lifestyle to avoid burnout and bring out your best in all areas. Managing your time effectively is what allows you to succeed both at work and at home.

Jenny completes her executive coaching ACC accreditation in January 2025. She is currently accepting clients who want to thrive!

by Jennifer Morin

Plan White Space into your Day to Decrease Stress at Work

January 28, 2020

Too much to do is a common problem for today’s working women and men, especially those involved in management and knowledge occupations. Time management is crucial for these professionals!  (Examples of knowledge occupations: Managers, Programmers, architects, CEOs, healthcare & support, and so on.)

If having too much on your plate is getting discouraging or frustrating, trying a few time management strategies I explore in the article will provide relief.

I worked with a company and the 2 top administrators, a man and a woman, both felt overwhelmed by all the tasks on their plates.  I posed a few exploratory questions to ’Jake’ and learned his schedule was completely overbooked.

“How about delegating some of your tasks to other people here?” I asked.

In this case, both admins said No, it would not be appropriate to delegate several of his responsibilities to others in the company. They felt those people already had enough on their plates.

         So, what is left? Any other strategies we can try for someone with too much on their plate?

 Well, like Mom always said, you’ve got to clean your plate! And I mean that literally.

         It’s time to create some white space.

It’s important to recognize, no matter who you are or what your job is, that things will come up during the day and you need to plan room for them in your schedule.

The best time managers have unstructured time planned into their day.

 The only way to do this is by creating white space into every day.

And the way that works best is if you have a good handle on how long your planned goals for the day will take. That leads us to the first way to reduce stress: Planning.

Step 1: Estimate How Long your Tasks will take

Many time coaches call this time estimating. It’s something I teach in my time management seminar and in private time coaching sessions. A simple but effective concept, which you can do by timing how long different, often repeated tasks take you. Like creating an agenda for an upcoming staff meeting, calls to clients, following up on a lead, or tracking numbers for last week, for example.

How will time estimating help you be realistic about what you can accomplish in a day?

How will this, in turn, decrease stress?

Step 2: Plan for Interruptions and Crises

It is helpful to track how much time each day the interruptions and crises take. Try tracking these for a week or two, then average it.  While you’re at it, observe what time of day have the most interruptions. Then you can plan for these disruptions and a lot of the guesswork will be gone. You’ll have a good idea how many interruptions come and also, what time of day they tend to happen.

Can you see how this would be helpful to you? Try this strategy of actually scheduling enough unstructured hours into your day so that when emergencies come up, you already have time planned and can take it all in stride.

I guarantee your level of stress will decrease!

Step 3: Create an Opportunity List

And one other thing you may be wondering: what happens if I don’t get the amount of interruptions I planned for? This is a good situation to be in!

In that case, planning a list of other things you’d LIKE to get done that week would be handy. I call this an opportunity list.

  1. List tasks or small steps in a project that you’d like to fit in.
  2. Then, in the empty left-hand column, estimate how long each of these tasks might take you.
  3. When a window of time opens up, say you have 15 minutes before your next meeting, plug in one of the 15 minute tasks. 

We all know there is no shortage of things to do. That’s why you’re reading this, yes? So, here’s a challenge for you: Start adding more white space to your day; at first, add 30 minutes, then an hour. Gradually increase it. Remember white space does not have to be one block of hours, you can disperse it throughout the day.

Let me know how this helped you! Once you’ve tried these strategies, reach out to me on FB or Instagram.

Or comment below. Thanks!

RESOURCES: https://jkglei.com/white-space/  Why you need white space in your daily routine by Jocelyn Glei

by Jenny Morin
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