Five tricks for the balance of job and leisure

Tips and tricks to find the balance of work and leisure

03/03/2015

For many people, the whole life seems to be nothing but work: toil until the night breaks, quickly home, do the bare necessities, sleep and the next day, all over again. Some tips and tricks can help to balance work and leisure.

Internal stress after work
More and more employees feel overwhelmed by the daily drudgery and show signs of burnout. "But the workload usually employees can not change anything, because the next orders, files or orders are determined.A too crisp stint but provides for leisure deficits and lack of balance .Workers do not only work overtime but are also after work from inner turmoil and Often they are bothered by thinking about what is left to do, after work, and some tips and tricks can help to reduce the workload and to enjoy the earned free time better.

Keep track of the essentials with the balance bike
Anja Hume, career counselor and balance coach from Dusseldorf advises in a message from the news agency dpa that employees should regularly take time to review their priorities, if the work takes up a lot of space. Working people easily lose sight of the essentials in the hectic pace of everyday life. The expert recommends creating a Life balance bike. To do this, you paint a large circle, which is divided with the pen into equally sized pieces of cake, each of which stands for one area of ​​life: career, family, partnership, friends, leisure, personal development, spirituality, body, home. „Draw a picture of how satisfied you are with each piece of cake at the moment“, explains the anti-stress expert. Lots of filling is very satisfied and less filling is not so satisfied. Afterwards, it is important to evaluate how important each piece of cake is. „The finished Life Balance bike will show you very carefully whether your life matches your needs.“ This makes it easier to tackle concrete changes.

Leisure activities according to the motto: „Keep it simple!“
Stella Cornelius-Koch, an expert on stress management and a non-fiction writer on the topic, says that employees should be able to keep leisure activities during the week as uncomplicated as possible during a full-time job. True to the motto: „Keep it simple!“ The expert explains: „If you have to get up after work for a long drive to the gym, the motivation is usually low.“ If, for example, you could combine movement directly with work, for example by working the road bike, this would be ideal. „Also perfect are sports that can be done directly from the front door, for example, jogging or Nordic walking.“ Other activities and appointments should be made as simple as possible, for example by meeting the Italian at the corner instead of swinging the wooden spoon.

Take time for yourself
No matter what the priorities are, first the family and then the friends or the job and then the hobbies: most of the time there is no time for yourself. Therefore, making an appointment with oneself makes sense. The expert for time management, Cordula Nussbaum, advises: „Think about things that you really feel like doing.“ Such activities can be very different. Some prefer an evening in the warm bath, possibly combined with aromatherapy, which contributes wonderfully to reducing stress. Others prefer a nice movie on TV, a sauna, cinema or theater visit, a jog or deliberate idleness. „It is important to make a note of the appointment in the calendar and to use it consistently.“ For those who find this difficult, it is advised to make the dates for the beginning time mandatory, for example by buying the cinema ticket a couple of days in advance or booking a babysitter for the children.

Also say no
It is also important to delegate more. Employees often try to get things done and do not want to burden anyone else or give the impression that they are not doing the stint. But that is often not right. „Transfer tasks that are not important to you personally, sometimes to others“, so walnut. Among other things, this includes the courage to say no when new tasks are distributed. „Sit down and make a note of what you currently have on your agenda. And then you delete what may have been important, but it is not anymore.“

Yourself from „I must“-Relieve pressure
Mostly there is a lot of tasks apart from the daily routine „To do list“ wait with red exclamation mark. These constantly make for a guilty conscience. Mrs. Nussbaum recommends herself from this eternal „I must“-Relieve pressure. She advises a traveler „To-do collection“: „Make a note of your broader ideas and tasks in a notebook, a Word document or an app, regardless of the daily duty calendar.“ Professionals can then pick out what time is right now. „You will not have to worry about everything that you can not do in one day, it will travel with you into the next few days.“ Because of this separation from the daily calendar, employees no longer have the problem of having to push the unfinished business over and over again. „This saves frustration and, above all, valuable life time.“ (Ad)