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We all want to find happiness at work and at home, but 24% of U.S. employees say the balancing act is getting tougher to manage, according to a study by Ernst & Young (EY). That’s because work is spilling into time that should be spent on personal pursuits. About half of managers work more than 40 hours a week, the EY report found, and a study by Project: Time Off found that the majority (55%) of us end the year without taking advantage of paid time off. That unused vacation time totals 658 million days.
But happiness experts say work-life balance is a myth. Work life and home life aren’t separate; there’s just "life," and happiness comes from figuring out a way to combine the two seamlessly.
"People who are highly resilient don’t see the day in terms of separation," says Maria Sirois, clinical psychologist at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. "There isn’t work me versus home me. Ninety percent of success of life is about who we are and what we bring to the day at work and at home."
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Simple strategies such as getting a good night's sleep and tapping into your creative strengths can impact your career.
The work/life balance is with we all struggle with every day. Living and working in a remote area, I find it challenging to separate my work life from my home life. It’s extremely important to put things in place to ensure you are getting the most out of each and can separate the two. Making health and wellbeing a priority can help you manage the stresses that come with work. Simply eating healthy and exercising daily can make a huge impact on your mental health, as well as ensuring you are sleeping properly and have energy for the next day, rather than thinking about work all night. You can ensure you have time each night with no phones or laptop devices, and create habits/routines which trick your mind into knowing you are home and not at work. There are millions of things you can put in place and not only will you, but your family and colleagues benefit.