This term is well-known but it often proves the hardest to achieve.

 

Work-life balance involves establishing healthy, distinct boundaries between work-day activities and leisure time pursuits.

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With technology everywhere  and our phones keeping us constantly connected, there can be a blurring between work time and play time.

 

It can be challenging to switch off from all the information that is constantly entering our minds in one form or another.

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Due to COVID and general shifting trends, more and more people continue to work from home at least some of the time.

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With this, come theoretical opportunities to create more time in the working day for things like exercise and relaxation.

 

Equally though, come potential risks from ever-decreasing boundaries between times spent in and away from work.

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Interestingly, recognising you have a work-life imbalance can be difficult. This is because we have a natural psychological tendency to minimise areas of potential conflict in our life.

 

Our first sign that something is wrong might be a comment from a partner, child or work colleague.

 

Another sign could be physical ill-health, sleep disturbances or increasingly negative mental and emotional states of mind.