How to Balance Daily Life

Productive tips to help you manage the different aspects of your life

Our lives consist of so many different strands. It can get pretty overwhelming and upsetting when we look at our lives and we realise we haven’t contacted our friends in months because we’ve been so busy with work or vice versa. Perhaps, we’ve had a great social life but now our work is suffering because we are constantly glued to our phones. Maybe we’ve found the balance between these two but realise that we aren’t as healthy as we’d like to be.

There are so many areas of our lives to consider and pay attention to. How can we make sure that we feel that we’re living a full life and don’t feel bad for neglecting important aspects of our lives?

One way to start to address this is to realise what aspects our lives are made up of. According to Brendon Burchard, there are 10: Family, Friends, Intimate Relationship, Health, Mission, Hobby, Finance, Adventure, Emotion and Spirituality. Maybe it’s a little different for you but these for me seem to sum up almost all the areas of life that matter, except for I would count Altruism as a whole separate category. It can help us to assess these and see how our lives are faring in each category. Give each a mark out of 10 and see what needs work. This on a regular basis can help you get your life a little straighter just by being aware and conscious of what is and isn’t working and what you need to improve on. This activity can also help you set goals. It is helpful to set yearly, quarterly, monthly, weekly and daily goals in order to really see the effect to achieve more balance.

One thing when planning my week ahead, after usually assessing my previous week, is to under each day of the following week create 3 columns: Work, Personal and Social. Under these columns, I then put 3 dots and spread out weekly to-dos based on my goals that I’d like to get done and work on. Within these 3 columns I kind of combine all of the above categories. I link my work column to my mission, my…

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