Have you ever wondered how so many entrepreneurs seem to have it all together and come across as having hacked the entire work/life balance deal?
Yeah I’ve wondered that too!
In today’s post I’m gonna share with you how I keep my work and life “balanced” and also give you some examples of how other entrepreneurs and bloggers manage their!
Let’s go!
The idea of balance is going to be so different from someone who is a mother of three children, wife to a doting husband, is a big member of her community and works a part time job.
How I Balance My Work & Life
For me, where I’m at right now, my balance is about working in chunks, huge chunks! I will have a month or two where I will just hustle my butt off. Whether it’s filming new content for an entire year or planning out my new products that are coming or actually making them or tidying up my website. I will actually go missing in action for a few months while I do this.
Once I’ve done that I go and play. I go and travel. I go on adventures. I go explore. I go do different things that excite me, because that for me is my balance right now. That’s what I need right now. It will more than likely be different two to three years from now. But for right now the stage I’m at, this is how my balance works. Because I’m not a mother and I don’t have a family to look after or I don’t work in a full-time job; I can’t actually tell you how to live a balanced life.
How Mothers & Full-Time Workers Balance Their Life
But I went around and asked a few of my entrepreneurial friends who were mothers and full-time workers on how they keep their balance. And that was that they utilised the amount of time that they had alone, which to be honest isn’t much!
But that meant they would get up early, earlier than their kids, earlier than when their jobs started, and they did the things that they needed to do for their businesses so that with their kids work or when they had to go to work they had their time for that.
Also if there are free moments or even just the tiniest little gap of time where they could take a minute, they would be on their phones scheduling social media posts or jotting down ideas for their next post.
And if their kids are at work, they would use that time to work themselves. And go to the gym and get a coffee; have their own life too. My friends who worked and full-time jobs would utilize the lunch breaks and do a little bit of work on their business. After work they’d do some work, or they would go to the gym or they would go and spend some time with friends.
The weekends were the main time that they could get a lot done. So, for mothers they communicate with their husbands to take the kids for a couple of hours while they do their own thing or work on their business or just have their me time. For my full timers, they had the whole weekend to themselves, so they’d go spend time with family and loved ones and go do some different activities and work on their businesses.
There is no one size fits all when it comes to balance. You’ve got to figure it out for you. And that comes with juggling things around, seeing what works, what doesn’t, what you like doing, what you don’t like doing, no matter what, you can make it work; you can have a balanced life. It’s just a few mindset shifts that have to take place for you to have that.
So that’s it for me today. Now I’d love to hear from you. How do you personally balance work and life? Is it easy for you or does it require a bit of pre-planning? Let me know in the comments below.
