Why I DON'T believe in work-life balance 🤡🤷🏻‍♀️

⚠️ #UnpopularOpinion ahead.

There isn’t a specific incident or day when I had this realisation, but imo, there is little point in harping on work-life balance.

It’s a term that’s used very loosely by employees, management, HR etc, but WHAT DOES IT EVEN MEAN!? 😱

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Let’s put things into perspective.

Maybe you sleep 7 hours a night. That gives you 17 waking hours in a day.

Say you have 9–6 job. Commuting takes an hour, so you leave the house at 8am 🚌🚝

You spend an extra 30min clearing your work and knock off at 6.30pm. It’s 7:30pm when you get home after another hour of commute.

The whole work aspect of your day takes up 11 hours in this scenario, which is not uncommon.

YOU HAVE OFFICIALLY SPENT 64.7% OF YOUR WAKING HOURS ON WORK 🥲🥲

What balance?? 🤨

If balance = 50% then your balance has already got poof LOL 😂💨

And on top of that, I’m pretty sure you already spend time OUTSIDE of work… thinking / worrying about work.

For most of us, there's no longer a clear line that separates work and life 🥹😅

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WORK. IS. LIFE. 🤣

So what can you do instead?

There are 2 main concepts that I apply for myself:

1️⃣ Create a life that you don’t want to ESCAPE from, so you don’t have to care about work-life balance.

If work is holding you back from personal growth / messing with your mental health, you CAN find different work.

That said, I do know a no. of people who hate their jobs but stay for the financial stability 💰💰

This is not for me, but if it’s your choice, do share tips on how you cope during your time at work—since work takes up so many hours in a day 🙂

Vacations / family time are not counted ok bc they’re outside work 😂

2️⃣ It’s perfectly fine if you only make time for / prioritise a few things in life

Don’t balance. Simplify. All or nothing in a few select areas.

Cut out the unimportant things, so you get the time to focus on the important ones ✂✂

Remember the 64.7%? 

If work takes up 64.7% of your waking time, what are the 1 or 2 things you’d choose to prioritise for the remaining 35.3%? 🤔🤨

I’d love to know in the comments ❤️

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