6 Points to relieve your stress and have a better work life balance in today’s scenario of Work from Home

Feeling stressed in your work will make you lose your confidence, become angry and irritable. Getting stressed is sometimes good as it makes us to work more and complete the things with in the time. But when it exceeds your ability to cope up with it, it stops being helpful and causes damage to our work as well as our personal life.

Work life balance – the term itself says that how an individual should distribute and coordinate their work between both personal and professional priorities in order to maintain a proper balance in between them. Therefore, maintaining a proper work life balance requires to plan your time effectively in order to get rid of the exceeding stress and increase productivity in personal as well as professional life.

So, when you are able to maintain a balance in your personal and professional life, it will further reduce your stress and at the same time it keeps you happy, healthy and motivated. On the other side, failing to maintain the right balance in your personal and professional life will impact your mental as well as physical health negatively.

6 Points to relieve your stress and maintain a better work life balance

Now, coming to those points which will help you further in maintaining this right balance between your personal and professional life through prioritization of your tasks based on their priority and urgency in your life. These points are as follows;

• Sticking to a proper schedule: When you have been given the flexibility to work from anywhere, it means that you should also be available online at anytime and anywhere. So, you have to make a proper schedule and have to stick with it. And also, you should make sure that you and your team would be working in the same time even if it is flexible, otherwise it will not bring harmony in neither your life nor in the life of your team members.

• Using communication tools being online: After making proper schedule, you need to ensure that you and your team are using the same communication tools to effectively communicate the required and useful information. This way your whole team will remain in synchronization with each other in reference to their work priorities. Some of the online communication tools could be mail, calendars, slack, skype, GoToMeeting and many more social networking tools etc.

• Making after-work hours’ plan: When we are working from home, it will feel like not to step out from your work mood even at the end of the day. Even then, we may feel like there is no work-life balance. To convert it into a positive way, we should also plan our after-work hours like meeting friends, workouts, etc. So, by planning these kinds of activities in advance, it will definitely make us step out of our desk and free from any kind of unnecessary stress.

• Work in a space different from the rest of your home: By Choosing a right workspace, you can set yourself up for a productive day. Generally, work from home will be more distracting than working in office premises. So, to stay motivated and for being productive, it is needed that we have to be surrounded by the co-workers. But since it is not possible by being at home, so we could do this by setting up our separate workspace at home. It may give us a feeling of staying at office.

• Don’t cancel or procrastinate your meetings: Now a day’s procrastination became a habit for us. Postponing the tasks when we are in an online mode will pushes us to loss, being at organizational level or at individual level. It will create severe stress for us and will make us to work for more and extra hours. Not only work, the meetings should also be conducted as well as attended on the scheduled time, so that it eliminates working for extra hours.

• Taking frequent breaks whenever needed: This is the most important thing that we need to take care of while planning the activities to manage the time accordingly. Sitting for long hours will create health issues both physical and mental. Breaks will be available only when you schedule your day properly. Within these breaks, you can relax and energize yourself to work for the rest of the hours.

Finally, I can say that work life balance is nothing but maintaining equilibrium between your personal as well as professional life. I hope these tips will definitely help you in maintaining proper work life balance and will definitely reduce your stress while working from home.